When most people talk about Game Of Thrones, they mention the dragons, they mention the violence, and they mention the nudity. The latter has always been a topic that follows Emilia Clarke around, with past reports connecting her to a rumor that an actress was refusing to do nude scenes on the show and her own comments about when she will and won’t shed her clothing. It follows her around like a dragon youngling or a lonely disgraced knight, just constantly showing up. That’s probably why she’s a bit annoyed when people focus on it.
Ian McShane famously said the show was all “tits and dragons” when he was guest starring on the show and it would seem plenty of folks seem to think the same. But according to an interview with Clarke in Harper’s BAZAAR, she’s tired of people singling out the show as being one step away from pornography:
“I’m starting to get really annoyed about this stuff now because people say, ‘Oh, yeah, all the porn sites went down when Game of Thrones came back on.’ I’m like, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale?’ I f*cking love that show, and I cried when it ended because I couldn’t handle not seeing it. That is all sex and nudity. There are so many shows centered around this very true fact that people reproduce,” she adds. “People f*ck for pleasure—it’s part of life.”
She expanded on her own feelings about starring in nude scenes during an earlier post in 2015 according to TV Insider, adding that those scenes are fair game if they add to the story or character:
“In drama, if a nude scene forwards a story or is shot in a way that adds insight into characters, I’m perfectly fine with it. Sometimes explicit scenes are required and make sense for the characters/story, as they do in Westeros…
“If it’s gratuitous for gratuitous sake, then I will discuss with a director on how to make it more subtle,” she said. “In either case, like a good Mother of Dragons, I’m always in control.”
It’s doubtful this will stop people from talking about the show and all of the sex in the same conversations, but her days of having to debate a nude scene next to a giant dragon could be coming to an end when the show wraps up in 2019. Maybe the idea that she just spent a very adult night with her own cousin nephew will ward her away from sex entirely for the final episodes of the show.
(Via Harper’s BAZAAR / TV Insider)
