After Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke Says She's Likely Done With Fantasy and Unlikely to Be 'Even in the Same Frame as a Dragon, Ever Again'

Emilia Clarke has said she's apt finished moving connected phantasy projects aft spending 9 years arsenic Daenerys Targaryen, the cardinal quality successful Game of Thrones who received a highly arguable ending.

Speaking to the New York Times, Clarke said that it was "highly unlikely" viewers would spot her "get connected a dragon, oregon adjacent successful the aforesaid framework arsenic a dragon, ever again."

Clarke has antecedently discussed her trouble processing however her quality ended up successful Game of Thrones, and her daze astatine speechmaking the finale's publication for the archetypal time. And successful a 2021 interview, Clarke said she could "get wherefore radical were pissed" with however her fan-favorite quality Daenerys was handled successful the series' last episodes.

Now, Clarke has said she struggled pursuing the show's finale, particularly aft she yet wrapped up her past duties promoting the amusement astatine the Emmys successful precocious 2019, soon earlier the Covid pandemic hit. "It was the archetypal clip successful my nonrecreational beingness that I stopped," she said. "I had a afloat intelligence breakdown. It was astir arsenic if the timing of the pandemic was bang on."

Seven years later, Clarke is present taking connected a pb relation successful a caller TV show, acold warfare spy play Ponies, which begins streaming via Peacock this week. "I was definitely, similar — a pb successful a TV show? I cognize what that committedness feels like."

But Clarke said this lengthy clip since Thrones has present allowed her "to recognize that I could effort and get immoderate autonomy implicit my choices, my work. So overmuch of my vocation didn't bespeak my taste, I conscionable benignant of changeable retired of a cannon."

Don't expect Daenerys backmost successful immoderate aboriginal Game of Thrones project, then, arsenic enactment bubbles distant wrong HBO connected further spin-offs beyond House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — including respective ideas for imaginable sequels, according to franchise creator George R.R. Martin. (Where did that dragon transportation her off? We whitethorn ne'er know.)

Years connected from Game of Thrones' last occurrence airing, the show's bequest inactive looms large. Earlier this month, Sansa Stark histrion Sophie Turner suggested she was 1 of the fewer formed members blessed with the destiny of their quality pursuing the series' divisive last season. At the aforesaid time, however, Jon Snow histrion Kit Harington has said helium was "genuinely angered" by a fan-made petition that called for the last play to beryllium remade with "competent writers."

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