Now that Game of Thrones is over forever, star Emilia Clarke — the Mother of Dragons herself — is preparing to take her skills to London’s West End where she’ll be appearing in Anton Chekhov’s classic play The Seagull.
But people aren’t going to forget her role as Daenerys Targaryen any time soon. Unfortunately, Clarke doesn’t have much in the way of memorabilia from the Game of Thrones set — one of Dany’s iconic platinum blonde wigs, a dress, etc — to remember the show by…or at least she didn’t, until recently.
“I was such a frustratingly good girl, I didn’t [take any props from set],” Clarke recently said on the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show with Zoe Ball. “I abided by the rules.”
However – I’m just going to say this live on radio – my amazing brother, who worked on the show as well, this Christmas gave me the best Christmas present ever. In one of the battle scenes I think, he got one of the Targaryen flags, so I opened it this Christmas and just burst into tears. So that’s going to take pride of place. I kept asking the Thrones lot, please can I have a wig? A coat?
Hooray, uncle of dragons!
Clarke also talk about how the show’s ending came at just the right time. “It’s been really nice,” she said. “I think my brain and my soul probably needed a bit of a break from it because it just kept going and getting bigger, and bigger and bigger.”
I could never quite see what it was because we were in it. I always used to say that it was like we all just got in this bunker for 10 years and then came out and was like, “Where are we? What’s happened?” So it feels very freeing to be free literally from the show. That being said, Daenerys is very much a part of me.
A producer once told Clarke that “an actor is the character’s best lawyer,” which really resonated with her. “For everything that happened, I was literally like, ‘But here’s why, this is what my girl [means],” she recalled.
You can catch Emilia Clarke in The Seagull when the play opens on March 11. Get your tickets today.
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