Emilia Clarke’s character in Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen, gave an incredible speech after her victory at King’s Landing which saw the demise of Queen Cersei Lannister (played by Lena Headey) along with thousands of innocents.
The Mother of Dragons spoke in Valyrian and Dothraki to her Unsullied army, Dothraki soldiers and remaining North men after the battle.
Daenerys told her followers in a passionate speech they were going to “break the wheel” and invade many other lands.
Emilia said she watched videos of war leaders, including Adolf Hitler, to replicate their powerful speeches.
This speech meant so much to me
Emilia Clarke
She told Variety: “In giving all these speeches in fake languages, I watched a lot of videos of — now it seems funny — dictators and powerful leaders speaking a different language to see if I could understand what they were saying without knowing the language.
“And you can! You absolutely can understand what Hitler’s f*****g saying, these single-focus orators speaking a foreign language.”
She added: “So I thought, ’If I can believe every single word I’m saying, the audience won’t need to be looking at the subtitles too much’.”
Emilia said she felt “pressure” to pull off the speech and said it “almost killed” her.
“I normally pick up these things quite quickly, but this speech meant so much to me,” she said. “It almost killed me.”
She went on: “I was
