Game Of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke has called out the special treatment Kit Harington and her male co-stars got that women didn’t while on set.
The star led the series as Daenerys Targayen, with Kit playing her lover and fellow contender for the Iron Throne, Jon Snow.
But while the show was grand in scale, it was revealed that the hot locations caused a problem for all cast members – but it was only the men that were given things to cool them down.
Speaking at Edinburgh TV Fest, Emilia explained: ‘The guys in the Night’s Watch, Jon Snow, are wearing a woolly mammoth all the time.
‘When we were shooting things in a hot country when they had all of those things on, they had this pump that had its own little generator attached into the costumes.
‘They used it to pump cold water into these pipes and cool them all down so underneath they had this weird kind of cooling system.’
‘Girls weren’t allowed that. All I could get was the back of my wig to be lifted up,’ Emilia then added.
‘It’s too hard, I’ve got a wig on, they don’t make cold packs you know, you put ice packs on yourself.’
This isn’t the first time that Emilia has called out discrimination on set of the series, which was often filmed in the heat of Croatia, and then the cold of Northern Ireland.
Nathalie Emmanuel, who played Emilia’s right hand woman Missandei, thanked Emilia for sticking up for her after an inappropriate comment from a co-star.
‘[Emilia] and I always looked out for each other. If you’re the only girls on a male-dominated set, it bonds you in a certain way,’ Nathalie told Vogue.co.uk.
‘For example, in my first season, my costume was pretty revealing, and there was an incident with a supporting actor who made a comment about it on set – I mean, typical – and Emilia straightaway had my back.’
‘It got handled,’ she stressed.
Game Of Thrones is available on Sky Atlantic.
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