Emilia Clarke was 'livid' over Game of Thrones fate

Bang Showbiz on Jun 7, 2026

Published in Women

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Emilia Clarke was "absolutely livid" when she learned Daenerys Targaryen's fate in Game of Thrones.

The 39-year-old actress played the Mother of Dragons in the hit HBO fantasy series, between 2011 and 2019, and she still feels "bummed" that her alter ego's love interest Jon Snow (Kit Harington) killed her in the final episode in a bit to protect the realm from her tyrannical ways.

Tasked with remembering her lines in an interview with Variety, Emilia recalled Daenerys' last words to Jon were: "We break the wheel together."

She added: "That is the last thing I say before the cheeky little s*** stabs me.

"F****** outrageous. I was so p*****. I was absolutely livid."

"Outside of the controversy around her actions, him killing me really bummed me out. Kinda rude. I gave that man everything, burned cities to the ground for him, for us."

She jokingly added: "I'm over it, clearly. I'm so over it, it's unreal. Livid."

Emilia recalled how she spent hours in a "daze" after first reading the scripts for the final season and discovering Daenerys' final arc.

She said: "I just landed from a holiday and turned my phone on, and it went 'Bing.' Of course, there it is.

"Went home, sat down and did what I always do, which is read them all the way through, and then found myself walking out of the house in a daze -- forgot my keys, forgot my phone, forgot everything -- and just walked for hours to try to assimilate what it was that I had to do that season."

The British actress had an "existential crisis" after the show ended and it took her "years" to process the impact of the show.

She said: "You always get a bit emotional at the end of every single shoot. But this was like, 'I don't know what's happening to me'-kind of crying. It was such a significant part of my life that was the entryway to my career, that ending it and then COVID happening… existential crisis here I come!

"It's taken me years to comprehend what it was. It's taken me years to comprehend what it meant," she continued. "I meet as many people who haven't watched it as who have. So, I'm just grateful that it happened. But I still can't quite wrap my head around it, if that makes sense."

Emilia will always feel "grateful" to her character.

She said: "I'm grateful to her. She taught me a lot."