Warning: Spoilers for Game Of Thrones season eight.
Emilia Clarke recently revealed that she was just as flabbergasted as the rest of the world with the direction her character Daenerys Targaryen took in season eight of Game of Thrones – and she wanted her character to spend more time with her arch nemesis Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey).
As over a million angry fans signed a campaign asking HBO to remake the final season, the actress revealed that there were a few things she too would have liked to change.
Speaking to The New Yorker, she said: ‘Well, I can only speak to my own character, and the people that I interact with on the show. But I would’ve loved some more scenes with me and Missandei.
‘I would’ve loved some more scenes with me and Cersei.’
She added that she wanted to see more of Grey Worm and Missandei (Jacob Anderson and Nathalie Emmanuel), the beautiful couple, as well.
Us too, Emilia.
‘Yeah, I would’ve loved some more scenes between Grey Worm and Missandei. I would’ve loved to see a bit more between Cersei…I feel like there was…The genocide was there. That was always going to happen.’
She continued: ‘And I just think more dissection and those beautifully written scenes that the boys have between characters — that we are more than happy to contently sit there and watch ten minutes of two people talking, because it’s beautiful.
‘I just wanted to see a bit more of that.’
In the final episode ever, Daenerys Targaryen died after being stabbed by Jon Snow (Kit Harington), and though some fans expected the Mad Queen storyline, it was nevertheless a bitter pill to swallow.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Clarke revealed that it was a shock to her system when she first read the script ‘because it comes out of f**king nowhere.’
But ultimately, she understood Dany’s arc, adding: ‘It’s not like she’s suddenly going to go, “Okay, I’m gonna put a kettle on and put cookies in the oven and we’ll just sit down and have a lovely time and pop a few kids out.”
‘That was never going to happen. She’s a Targaryen. I thought she was going to die. I feel very taken care of as a character in that sense. It’s a very beautiful and touching ending. Hopefully, what you’ll see in that last moment as she’s dying is: There’s the vulnerability—there’s the little girl you met in season one. See? She’s right there. And now, she’s not there anymore…’
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