Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke says there’s no gender pay gap issue on the show.
Emilia, who plays mother of dragons Daenerys Targaryen, insists she was ‘not discriminated against because I was a woman’.
She says the recent discussion on the gender pay gap has made want to ‘fight harder’ for equal pay.
Speaking at Kering Woman in Motion at the Cannes Film Festival, she said: ‘On Game Of Thrones, I have always been paid the same amount as my male co-stars.
‘It was my first job and I was not discriminated against because I was a woman, in my paycheck.’
She also called the pay inequality between Claire Foy and Matt Smith on The Crown ‘shocking’.
Variety quotes her saying: ‘You start to dig deep and see where it is, rife in the industry. So I think it’s mainly in the beginning, just be aware of that and going, “Can you check?” You just start to fight harder for that stuff.’
Clarke also teased that the ending of the final season of Game Of Thrones will be ‘what none of us think it will be’.
On the show coming to an end, she said: ‘It really feels like preparing to leave home, is how it feels.
‘So that’s exciting, but it’s sad and scary all at the same time.
‘It has been my entire life. It has been my entire 20s and then some. It’s been my everything.’
The actress was in Cannes for a screening of her film Solo: A Star Wars story where she was joined by Chewbacca on the red carpet.
The film is out in the UK on 24 May, a day earlier than everyone else.
