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6 Apr 2015

Revealed secrets in Game of Throne

Actress Emilia Clarke is revealing the secrets of the hit fantasy show. 
Yes, of course, the dragons that are the ‘babies’ of her character are not real. But neither, it turns out, is her hair.
‘This is all wig,’ she says with a grin, touching the silver-blonde mane that flows with queen-like elegance from her head. 
‘There’s nothing real here. It takes two-and-a-half hours every day.’
The painstaking process of transforming the dark-haired 28-year-old Londoner into Daenerys Targaryen – aka Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea – is tackled with the kind of attention to detail that is typical of the HBO drama.
‘They braid my hair so it’s like cornrows, then they tie and pin that, then glue a bald cap, then paint the bald cap, then they glue the wig on and pin it and cut it to size, then dress it.’
Clarke is one of the breakout stars of Game Of Thrones. 
Hollywood sources suggest that, alongside other core members of the cast, she’ll be earning over $7 million per series by the time production begins on the seventh season next autumn.
She was nominated for a 2013 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, played Jude Law’s daughter in Dom Hemingway (2013) and starred as Holly Golightly on Broadway in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
As a mark of just how big a deal she now is on the back of Game Of Thrones, she was also offered the saucy female lead in Fifty Shades Of Grey – a part she declined with ‘no regrets’, saying that she had ‘done nudity before and was concerned with being labelled for doing it again’.
In the show’s first series Clarke was notoriously filmed naked in many of her key scenes although by series four she had resorted to wearing clothes – perhaps more befitting her regal position. 
Game Of Thrones has never stinted on sex scenes, as Clarke acknowledges: ‘We’ve been able to take it to a very real level. It was never pretending to be a show for kids! It’s gritty in a good, realistic way.’ 
And, as she jokes, ‘There are other women who remove items of clothing on Game Of Thrones, so they’ve got my nipple count down now.’ 
That said, she admits that when she started filming the show in 2010 some of the scenes were shocking, including an initiation ritual in which she ate a horse’s heart. 
‘It tasted like congealed jam, with a hint of bleach. I did the occasional double-take during season one when I saw the script but now, less so.
As for the three dragons, they’ve grown in size in tandem with the exploding popularity of the show.
In season two, the scaly creatures were cute and pet-sized, burping the occasional puff of smoke. 
They were a good fit, in a way, for the dainty, 5ft 2in actress. To film the scenes, the show’s ‘Mother of Dragons’ recalls how the special-effects team would give her full-size replica models. 
'Drogon would sit on my shoulder, Rhaegal in my arms, Viserion would be around somewhere. 
'They’d attach them, so we could do a camera rehearsal and I would know the size, then they’d take them away and there’s genuinely nothing there apart from marker dots.’
‘Daenerys is a really good vehicle for reaching out to the women as well... You’re looking at a world that is incredibly male-orientated. And you’re seeing a more archaic view of the male/female divide than you do now. 
'It takes ten times the guts to be a woman there than in modern-day society because you’re up against so much more. 
'With Game Of Thrones, the women are more interesting than the guy characters. I would say that, though!’
So, season five is almost upon us. Come the fateful battle between the warring ‘houses’, will Daenerys triumph? Will she, finally, take her seat on the Iron Throne?
‘I’m rooting for Dany the whole way!’ Clarke laughs.
‘I mean, she has dragons! How is somebody going to come up against that? Seriously? They can’t.’

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