There were many joys that Game of Thrones brought to the race Emilia Clarke, but at the beginning of the series, when his name had not yet benefited from the prestige of HBO fiction, he felt that his work was expendable. Until then, she had barely worked in the industry. He had only dropped in on low-level productions, such as a television movie called Triassic Attackand aspiring to a franchise as beloved as that of Song of ice and fire, which already had a strong literary phenomenon, caused insecurities to take over. But that wasn’t the hardest part of the matter.
In an interview with Big Issuethe actress who gave life to Daenerys Targaryen He explained that this sensation came at a delicate moment for his health, when he suffered two brain hemorrhages which, as she explained, left her “altered on a dramatic level.” The first of them occurred in 2011, in the midst of the series’ premiere. She lost the ability to speak and was close to going into a coma, coming to think that she was not qualified for the acting business, much less in such a successful series where any slip-up can be viewed with a bad light.
“When you have a brain injury, your sense of identity is altered to such a dramatic level that all the insecurities you have when you arrive at the workplace quadruple overnight“Clarke declared about the psychological repercussions of his brain injury, among which the feeling of loneliness also stands out.
“Having a chronic illness that diminishes your confidence in what you believe is your reason for living is very debilitating and lonely. One of the biggest things I felt with a brain injury was being deeply alone. “That’s what we’re trying to overcome.”
Two years later, when Game of Thrones He was already an unparalleled success on television, he suffered another hemorrhage and required surgery, since the size of the lesion had doubled. The actress acknowledges that she was lucky and that she is among “a really small minority” of people who survived and had no “aftermath,” but, at the time, Fearing that he would lose his job due to this health problem and that his career would be limited for life, “he couldn’t move forward.”.
In fact, he even mentions that she asked the medical staff to let her die because I thought I would never act again. “The first fear we all had was, ‘Oh my God, are they going to fire me?’ “Are they going to fire me because they think I’m not capable of completing the job?” she stressed. But, fortunately, everything went smoothly. As she well acknowledges, the doctors gave her “a superpower” and her brain injury did not in the least disrupt her acting ability or HBO’s plans with Daenerys Targaryen.
A perfectly understandable fear
Taking into account the continuous changes in distribution that occurred in Game of Thronesby which characters such as Dario Naharis, The Mountain, Tommen Baratheon or the Night King were affected, No wonder Emilia Clarke feared for her future.. Besides, It must be appreciated that she was not the first choice to play Daenerys Targaryensince in the original pilot, which was never aired, her role was played by another actress named Tamzin Merchant.
However, although in the early stages of the series it was not so noticeable, Emilia had unconditional support from the fans. The dragon queen became one of the audience’s favorite characters, her characterization lived up to what readers of the books always imagined and it was difficult not to resist her involvement in the series. In addition, her work was widely acclaimed with numerous nominations for awards such as the Emmys and opened the doors to many other productions, such as the romantic drama Me before you with Sam Claffin, the spin-off of Han Solo, the comedy Last Christmas or his jump to Marvel with secret invasion.
Therefore, a new change of actress would have left the HBO series hurt and not so much Clarke, who was loved by millions of people. That is to say, an option that, unless the actress’s situation became excessively complicated, no manager would have thought of. Even so, appreciating the hardness of those moments, and that in any profession insecurities and imposter syndrome are just around the corner, His position is understandable.
This article was written exclusively for Yahoo en Español by Cine 54.
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