“YEAR OF THE DRAGON
Emilia Clarke has a certain kind of nubile beauty that’s irresistible to casting directors. She’s one of those child-women who’s all bee-stung lips, broad brow and soft, round visage, a facade of über-innocence that’s always hiding anything but. On an actress like Mila Kunis, a baby face is the alluring mask of a bad girl. But in the case of Game of Thrones star Clarke, it’s the portal to a type of young female character you’ve rarely seen, one whose womanly side isn’t largely expressed by her sexuality but by a solid core of inner strength and authority.
Of course, there’s a reason you haven’t seen many characters like that: Not many young women—or young men, for that matter—are masters-of-the-universe material. Not yet, anyway. So the executive producers of HBO’s highly rated fan favorite fantasy-epic series launched an extensive search for Daenerys Targaryen, one of the would-be monarchs of Game of Thrones’ dungeons-and-dragons world.” More
“It’s like she’s sharpening her weapons. She’s tooling up. She’s working out exactly what she needs. With Dany, in every single thing that she does, she’s trying to learn from everyone and everything, either from their mistakes or from their successes. She gets tested so much in Season 2, and when she may think that she is learning from someone’s success, she is actually learning from their failure.
The biggest thing is trust, because it’s an incredibly lonely place that you see her in. [Up to and including Episode 4,] you can see that, but it gets even worse, because you are just reminded of the fact she has no one aside from her khalasar and Ser Jorah and her dragons, but there is no family there at all. There is no husband, and she is still mourning the loss of her child. It’s quite a dark place, really.”
Emilia Clarke interview with Thronecast, now region-free.
A clip from a 30-min CNN special that will air on Sunday about the creation of the Dothraki language featuring new interviews with David J. Peterson, Emilia Clarke, Amrita Acharia, and David Benioff & D.B. Weiss. Looks interesting!
WinterIsComing.net: Game of Thrones Cast Twitter Roundup
These are the confirmed Twitters of cast members.
Irri: Amrita Acharia @AmritaAcharia1
Theon Greyjoy: Alfie Allen @jackwilshereman
Pyp: Josef Altin @JosefAltin
Ros: Esmé Bianco @esmebianco
Samwell Tarly: John Bradley @johnbradleywest
Jeyne: Oona Chaplin @OonaCCI have a question. There’s an @ClarkeEmilia, is she the real one or fake?
Fake. Emilia confirmed again recently in an interview that she is not on Twitter and never plans to be. The current @ClarkeEmilia (and any other account) is a fraud.
“Princess of House Targaryen and a newly widowed khaleesi, she lives in exile in Essos. Dany’s grief has not stopped her from strategizing her return to the Seven Kingdoms to take back the throne.” -HBO Character Page
Video: Game of Thrones stars gather for Rolling Stone shoot | Rolling Stone
My RS compatriots gather four actors who share zero screen time on the show — Alfie Allen, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harrington, and Lena Headey — and let them romp around together on camera. Good times!
There have been a huge amount of interviews lately, keeping track is hellish. So here is a current list of the latest!
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