Emilia Clarke recalls filming Game of Thrones after brain surgery

Actress Emilia Clarke, who is famous for her role in ‘game of thrones’, revealed that she faced two brain aneurysms during the early years with the series.

Clarke spoke about her severe illness for the first time in a personal essay for The New Yorker magazine.

Clarke, who played Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen in the exciting series, revealed how she handled her illness and work.

She said, “It was crazy intense. We are in the desert in a quarry in like ninety-degree heat, and I had the consistent fear that I was going to have another brain hemorrhage. I spent a lot of time just being like: “Am I gonna die? Is that gonna happen on set? Because that would be really inconvenient.” And with any kind of brain injury, it leaves you with fatigue that’s indescribable. I was trying so hard to keep it under wraps.”

“If I had called my doctor, he would have been like, “Dude, you just need to chill out.” But I still felt blind fear, and the fear was making me panic, and the panic was leading me to feel like I’m going to pass out in the desert. So they brought in an air-conditioned car for me—sorry, planet,” she added.

The showrunner Dan Weiss commented to her statements, “It was terrifying because this amazing, sweet, wonderful human being came this close to not being around anymore— this person we loved so much after just one year. Obviously, you need to make the show, but the important thing was making sure she was in a safe situation. You ask yourself: Is she as safe doing this show as if she was not doing it?” “If she was home sitting on her couch? She was so gung-ho, the main thing for us was making sure she wouldn’t put herself [in dangerous situations]. She would say: “Yeah, I just had brain surgery and if I need to gallop on a horse down a mountainside, I’ll do it.” You would have to tell her no because she would never say no.”

Clarke concluded, “In all of my years on the show, I never put self-health first, which is probably why everyone else was worrying, as they could see that. They didn’t want to work me too hard. I was like, ‘Don’t think I’m a failure; don’t think I can’t do the job that I’ve been hired to do. Please don’t think I’m going to f–k up at any moment.’ I had the Willy Wonka golden ticket. I wasn’t about to hand that in.”