Game Of Thrones star Gemma Whelan has revealed that her on-screen kiss with Ellaria Sand was improvised.
The 38-year-old actress, who played Yara Greyjoy in HBO fantasy series, made out with the character in season seven, just before her ship was ambushed by Euron Greyjoy’s portion of the Iron Fleet.
It turns out that producers hadn’t actually written in the couple’s romantic snog, but the actresses had felt that locking lips ‘seemed right’ given the charged sexual tension between them.
‘It wasn’t directed that we would kiss,’ Gemma told Gay Star News. ‘It just seemed like something we should do.
‘We led it, very much so. It was meant to be a suggestion [of flirting] and then it became more sexual than we expected because it seemed right.’
Though straight and married to a man, Gemma has expressed her happiness in playing sexually fluid characters on the small screen, like Yara.
She added: ‘Every single thing I do, there’s a lesbian touch to it. Long may I continue to be typecast, if that’s the way it goes.’
Game Of Thrones came to an end after eight seasons last year, and two months after airing, Gemma admitted she’d not yet watched the finale.
‘I haven’t watched the end yet, no,’ the 38-year-old admitted to Tim Lovejoy on Sunday Brunch.
‘I do know what happens. I came home and my husband was watching it and I saw the final bit but I haven’t seen most of the series yet, because we didn’t have internet in our house.’
Game Of Thrones is available to stream on HBO, Sky and NOW TV.
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