I was a huge fan before I was in the show and people are like, do you want to
come out for my birthday? And I'm like, is it is it when Game of Thrones is on?
Because I'm busy otherwise, no I'm joking depends on who it is.
No, yeah I would watch Game of Thrones. Sorry, I would.
One of the million words that I have in my head about season 8, probably like…
relentless.
It’s sort of all accumulating to this kind of epic ending.
And the pace of the show is just getting faster and faster and like,
more intense and you can just feel the stakes getting higher and higher.
It’s like this energy and its about to erupt.
And so many stories kind of get finished and all the answers sort of all come together at the end,
and it took such a long time to film because of all of the action that happens.
It was no small undertaking.
It was a lot of hard work and…
I’m just so excited for people to see it.
My favorite part of playing Missandei has been having the opportunity to map out her journey.
She started off as a girl who was incredibly intelligent but she was enslaved, that’s all she knew.
And becoming a free-thinking independent human being and having choice.
That’s been amazing and sort of learning who she is.
That’s just such a joy as an actor to do and I got to do it alongside some amazing people.
You know, through the story line with Jacob [Anderson] who plays Grey Worm,
and her experining love and intimacy for the first time.
And then also with Emilia [Clarke] who plays Daenerys and her finding friendship
in this crazy, crazy world that is Game of Thrones, that’s so brutal and violent.
She and Grey Worm especially, they’ve kind of created this little moment of…
sort of this pocket of joy and it’s very sweet and pure.
It’s been amazing to play that and being involved in that story.
Speaking the Valyrian was probably the biggest challenge.
The sentences have meaning and they do have structure.
So, after a while you start to become familiar with the rhythm and some of the sounds
and some of the pronunciations and words even.
You start to go, oh, yes I know that means dragon,
I know that means queen and I know that means knight or whatever.
The one phrase that I will forever remember is Daenerys’s titles
because I’ve had to say them so many times.
[Speaking Valyrian]
And so on.
That’s just some of her million titles that she has.
I think my favorite moment will always be my first moment because…
I just remember being so overwhelmed that I was there.
Because I was such a fan and I walked onto a set that had something like
a hundred guys as the Unsullied with helmets.
And it was in this beautiful set in Morocco,
and I was like…
This is crazy.
And I was starting out on this - what has now been an incredible journey.
That moment means so much to me now because I had no idea where it was going to go.
What an incredible six years it has been.
And I’m going to be watching every week, definitely.