“I’ve never been on a film set like this before. This is what this is and I’m going to make sense of it and that’s what I’m going to do and everything’s going to be cool. “But I’d come fresh from drama school and I approached it as a job: if it’s in the script then it’s clearly needed. Speaking on actor Dax Shepard’s podcast Armchair Expert, she said: “I took the job and then they sent me the scripts and I was reading them, and I was like, ‘Oh, there’s the catch!’ The British actress played queen Daenerys Targaryen in HBO’s sprawling epic, which became notorious for its explicit portrayal of sex and violence.Ĭlarke, who was 23 when she started filming Game Of Thrones, said she would be in tears before shooting certain “terrifying” nude scenes. The mum-of-two (47) said the thought of shooting naked for three days was "too much".ĭirector David Nutter added he told the doubles: "This is going to be a three-day event, and you have to be prepared for the fact that it's very probable somebody will get a shot of this from the crowd and you'll be trending as the most important thing online.Emilia Clarke has revealed she felt uncomfortable acting in some of her nude scenes in Game Of Thrones. Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) was so against stripping for her character's infamous 'Walk of Shame' scene in series five a total of seven body doubles were flown to Northern Ireland to audition for the part - after 1,000 actresses applied. "It's f*****g embarrassing - I called my mom and said, 'I read the scripts and I don't want to tell you what happens but can you just talk me off this ledge? I just went walking and I'm having a little cry. I was so desperate to be the most professional actor I could be that I'd be like, 'Yeah, sure', for anything they threw at me - 'I'll just cry about it in the bathroom later, whatever, you won't know'. The actress quietly battled through a brain haemorrhage and two surgeries during filming, with only a select group of her GoT colleagues informed.Įmilia said: "I was unemployed when I was cast. Jason Momoa (41) was urged by writer David Benioff to remove his 'modesty covering' to make his staged sex scene with actress Emilia Clarke's dragon-charmer character Daenerys Targaryen look more realistic. The first GoT sex scene featured in the pilot episode, shot on location in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Morocco. The crew then took steps to seal off that particular line of sight."Īlong with stopping spoilers leaking online, the show's raunchy nude scenes were another reason for the extreme secrecy. "One aerial shot of a King's Landing set in Northern Ireland leaked online during filming of season eight, and analysts determined it had been taken from a specific window at the Titanic museum blocks away. The show's security team would then use forensic analysis to track down precisely where and when the picture was taken. "And we all had code names, which is highly confusing when you needed to remember who was who. Sophie Turner, left, and Jessica Chastain (Ian West/PA) "Cast trailers had numbers on their doors rather than character names, so an interloper couldn't tell which actors were in a scene together."Īctress Sophie Turner (24) - Sansa Stark in GoT - says in the book: "We had like this app where everything disappeared after 24 hours it was like Snapchat for scripts. Every character was given a code name on any production documents. Printed scripts were largely banished from use in the latter seasons. James says in his book: "Perimeters were expanded and heavily patrolled. He also tells how pictures leaked from the Northern Ireland sets were digitally analysed by a team of experts hired just to track down the locations of spies. James details how the Northern Ireland sets of HBO's smash sex, swords and sorcery epic were designated as no-fly zones by the UK government - while scripts were released on an encoded messaging service that deleted them after 24 hours. Its US journalist author James Hibberd spent months on the show's sets and his tome collects never-before-seen interviews with the series' best-known cast and crew. New book Fire Cannot Kill A Dragon exposes private tales about the show, mainly shot in Northern Ireland for eight years between 20. They include Jason Momoa pressing his 'modesty sock' into the hand of one of the show creators, Ian McShane getting so disgusted with the catering he booted his burger across set - and Emilia Clarke being constantly driven to hysterics by raunchy blood-soaked scenes. Shock sex, security and diva secrets behind the scenes during the making of Game Of Thrones in Northern Ireland have been revealed.
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