Emilia Clarke Says She Was Pressured To Do Nude Scenes So As Not To “Disappoint” ‘GoT’ Fans

Game of Thrones was widely known for its racy scenes, many of which involved Emilia Clarke who played Daenerys Targaryen. Now, in the wake of GoT, the actress has revealed that it’s set a precedent for her career.

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During her appearance on Dax Shepard’s podcast Armchair Expert, the actress claimed that on a project post-GoT, she was pressured to go nude so as not to “disappoint” fans.

“I’m a lot more savvy [now] with what I’m comfortable with, and what I am okay with doing,” she said.

“I’ve had fights on set before where I’m like, ‘No, the sheet stays up’, and they’re like, ‘You don’t wanna disappoint your Game of Thrones fans’. And I’m like, ‘Fuck you’.”

She continued: “I took the job and then they sent me the scripts and I was reading them, and I was, like, ‘Oh, there’s the catch!’ But I’d come fresh from drama school, and I approached [it] as a job – if it’s in the script then it’s clearly needed, this is what this is and I’m gonna make sense of it… Everything’s gonna be cool.”

She then spoke of her surprise at the process of filming the show’s first season, saying: “I came to terms with [the nudity] beforehand, but then going in and doing it… I’m floating through this first season and I have no idea what I’m doing, I have no idea what any of this is.

“I’ve never been on a film set like this before, I’d been on a film set twice before then, and I’m now on a film set completely naked with all of these people, and I don’t know what I’m meant to do and I don’t know what’s expected of me, and I don’t know what you want and I don’t know what I want.”

She continued: “Regardless of there being nudity or not, I would have spent that first season thinking I’m not worthy of requiring anything, I’m not worthy of needing anything at all… Whatever I’m feeling is wrong, I’m gonna cry in the bathroom and then I’m gonna come back and we’re gonna do the scene and it’s gonna be completely fine.”

Clarke revealed that it was Jason Momoa, who played her problematic lover Khal Drogo in the show, who made her feel more comfortable about the situation.

“It was definitely hard,” she admitted. “Which is why the scenes, when I got to do them with Jason, were wonderful, because he was like, ‘No, sweetie, this isn’t okay.’ And I was like, ‘Ohhhh.’”

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