Emilia Clarke Is ‘Avoiding’ Watching Home of the Dragon : ‘It’s Too Bizarre’

Regardless of House of the Dragon taking residence the 2023 Golden Globe for best drama series, Emilia Clarke refuses to observe the Game of Thrones prequel sequence.

After starring within the HBO fantasy sequence for all eight seasons, the actor behind Danaerys Targaryen mentioned it might be “too bizarre” to observe the saga based mostly on her personal character’s bloodline. “I’m so completely happy it’s taking place. I’m over the moon about all of the awards,” she lately instructed Variety at Sundance Movie Competition whereas selling her subsequent film, The Pod Era. “I simply can’t do it.”

Clarke continued, “It’s so bizarre. It’s so unusual. It’s form of like somebody saying, ‘You need to go to this faculty reunion that’s not your 12 months? Wish to go to that college reunion?’ That’s the way it feels. I’m avoiding it.”

Emilia Clarke was nominated for 4 Golden Globes over the course of Sport of Thrones, which aired from 2011 to 2019. In 2023, HOTD star Emma D’Arcy, who performs Danaery’s distant relative Rhaenyra Targaryen, was nominated for finest actress in a drama sequence, although it ought to be famous that D’Arcy is non-binary and makes use of they/them pronouns. The one actor from the GOT Universe to take residence a Golden Globe is Peter Dinklage, who was named finest supporting actor in 2012 for his efficiency as Tyrion Lannister. Whereas Sport of Thrones was nominated for finest drama sequence 5 occasions, it by no means claimed the coveted award.

Previous to the HOTD premiere, Dinklage told Marc Maron that the prequel sequence, which takes place about 200 years previous to the occasions of GOT, was “going to be a extremely good present.” Nonetheless, his costar Kit Harrington’s emotions have been extra bittersweet.

In 2021, the Jon Snow actor instructed Associated Press that it “is perhaps painful” for him to observe Home of the Dragon. “There’s a lot tied up in that that it is perhaps arduous,” he mentioned, later telling Insider, “I feel to see individuals get into outfits and costumes, that resemble what we wore for all these years, and it [has] the identical music and elegance and tone, however not be in it’s all the time going to really feel — There’s going to be a rawness there.”

He continued, “In fact, I’ll watch it and I’ll help Miguel [Sapochnik], who’s helming the present. I want all of them one of the best, but it surely’s so near my coronary heart, that story, that, in fact, there is perhaps a little bit of ache there.”

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