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Emilia Clarke chats with Access at the 2011 HBO Winter TCAs about landing the role of Daenery Targaryen in “Game of Thrones.” What has been the best part for her about playing this character? Plus, what do her parents think about her landing the role?
At Comic-Con 2011, Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke chat with Access about the second season of “Game of Thrones.” As a newcomer, was it difficult for Emilia Clarke to bare it all for the HBO series? Plus, will Kit have a love interest in the second season?
In writing so much about HBO’s epic “Game of Thrones” recently, I’m realizing once again how much I love everything about George R.R. Martin’s complex world and characters (I read the books a couple years ago, and had to put them away so as not to obsess and reread them all the time). Tyrion, Arya, Jon Snow, Brienne and Dany — of course Dany!
Emilia Clarke is a stunning English actress best known for her character on HBO’s “Game Of Thrones,” Daenerys Targaryen, who begins as a shy, naive girl living under the rule of her brother and becomes a sexy, often naked and ruthless dragon leader. While Clarke gained plenty of attention for her racy sex scenes and gorgeous rack, do not let her nudity detract from her talent. In 2011, Clarke won an EWwy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role.
For all of our fellow “Game Of Thrones” fans, that April 1 season two premiere date just can’t come soon enough. What is going to happen in Westeros?!? Which beloved characters will live and die this time around?!? And while those of us who’ve read the books know a few answers to those questions, you never know when we’ll get thrown a curveball.
First up was adorable and enthusiastic young actress Emilia Clarke, who plays one of the most dynamic and unknowingly dangerous characters in the series, Daenerys Targaryen (pronounced Dan-AIR-ee-us Tar-GAR-ee-en). Without giving away too much, Dany (as she is commonly called) is one of many characters who are involved in a few racy scenes, and given the fact that her character is still a teenager when she engages in those racy activities, we asked Clarke if she had any reservations about portraying those aspects of her character.
The question is will the film – and the music – chime with young audiences? Judging by the young cast, then the answer is a resounding “yes”. Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke, who plays Tits’s love interest Sally, recalls one trick Whitecross has used to get everyone through the bitterly cold night-shoots. “They whack on The Stone Roses, and genuinely everyone is like “We’re gonna have a mint time!” Everyone’s just comes up on it. Their music has such heart to it.”
Like many other feminist moviegoers, I was more than a little disappointed that Pixar’s long-awaited first female protagonist, Brave’s Merida, is a princess. But what’s striking, even astonishing, about Brave’s treatment of princessdom is its historical honesty; even though Merida convinces her parents to abolish the tradition of arranged marriage, the film’s resolution essentially has our heroine accepting that she has to get married and that her nuptials will be used as a bond between rival clans. (Score one for the patriarchy.) Brave can boast some narrative complexity, if not much feminist bona fides, for having Merida occupy the role that real-life princesses have held for most of history — as insurance against war. This gloomy take on the purpose of royal females aligns Brave more closely with HBO’s medieval misery-fest Game of Thrones than with any other Disney princess movie that’s come before.
