I started this job when I was 22,
and I am not 22 anymore.
The journey that I've been on with Daenerys,
it's sharpened me as an actor,
and because of the heights that she goes to,
it's forced me to find them within myself.
And so, anytime anything good or bad happens,
you put it into her.
So, Daenerys is a tapestry of my entire adult life.
Within each major scene of Daenerys
is every major scene of my life.
(DRAGON SHRIEKS)
(ROARING)
(SHRIEKING)
♪ (MUSIC PLAYS) ♪
EMILIA CLARKE: (LAUGHING)
Oh my god, I fell off a fucking horse. (LAUGHS)
Jesus, this is my first job.
This is like the first thing I ever did,
and they stuck me on a horse. (SIGHS)
In a bamboo field in Belfast, and it's raining,
I was falling off the horse trying to act still.
Wow. A khaleesi... (LAUGHING)
EMILIA:
hanging on for dear-- I mean, literally,
I'm like hanging on like this.
And I'm hanging on for dear life and I just remember shouting,
"Please stop filiming!"
And I'm like, "Okay, everything's gonna be fine."
Turn around like, "Oh my god," there's like the whole crew,
and I just cried. So, that was my first day on
That was it. That was--
"Hey, mom, I had a really good day." (LAUGHS)
I had more spine-tingly, goosebump, joyful,
punch the air, yay days
on this show than anything in my life.
That's the thing about Dany. Every season, she gets better.
Every season, there's something else
bigger than the last season and better than the last season.
(DRAGON SHRIEKS)
(SPEAKING VALYRIAN)
Season three, getting The Unsullied,
was the first time that I, Emilia, got to be, like...
bitchin' badass!
(SPEAKING VALYRIAN)
Dracarys.
EMILIA:
It rubs off on you as an actor and you just-- you feel it.
I've had to stand up and be Daenerys.
In all of these moments, I've had to stand on that rock
and speak to a lot of people...
in a crazy language.
(SPEAKING DOTHRAKI)
...fuck!
(SPEAKING GIBBERISH)
It's been a challenge, but you just have to like--
you just have to grow a pair and do it.
Leaving this show is leaving a part of me.
The people, they're just-- Can I take Peter?
Can I take Nathalie? Can I take them all?
How can I rule seven kingdoms if I can't control Slavers' Bay?
Why should anyone follow me?
You're a Targaryen. You're the mother of dragons.
There's an ease that I get with acting with Iain Glen,
'cause he's been my pal the whole time
that's been my one-- my buddy!
Shambles, darling! Shambles!
Iain is an incredible actor, and he is an incredible mentor.
He's just helped me as a person on a really real level.
I'm gonna start to cry. That's ridiculous.
This is always a safe space.
We can fun, and we take the piss out of each other.
And we can support each other,
and we can laugh at each other's jokes,
or we can laugh at each other's bad moods,
or we can-- it's a family. It's an absolute family.
There's no ego. There's no-- we're in it together.
And I'm never gonna get that again.
CREW: (SINGING)
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
(CHEERING)
EMILIA:
has set me free. It's literally given me my freedom
as a human being, and as an actor,
and as a woman. I've been able to play
this incredibly strong woman when I could have very easily
never thought of the places I've had to go to with her.
The strength that I've had to find to play her,
and then seeing I had that strength myself,
and that's a really big deal.
And these guys have taken care of me so much,
and I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I'm really lucky I get to have it documented.
Um, and I'll just be forever grateful to...
everyone who makes
for giving me something really special.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪