Tamzin Merchant has broken her silence about what it was like being recast by Emilia Clarke following the original Game of Thrones pilot and it seems it all worked out for the best. Though Game of Thrones, which ran from 2011 to 2019 on HBO, was one of the most beloved shows in recent history, its original 2009 pilot didn’t impress executives. Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss were given another chance to make things better, which, clearly they did that included recasting key characters. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Tamzin – who currently stars in Amazon’s Carnival Row, admitted that she wasn’t excited to play Daenerys Targaryen, the character Emilia would go on to play for eight seasons after the series reshot the original pilot. Tamzin said she credited Emilia with bringing the character to life in a way she never could. “She was obviously excited to tell that story, and she was excellent,” she said. “But for me, it wasn’t in my heart to tell it.”
