During the performance of Game of Thronesthe actress Emilia Clarke managed to survive two brain aneurysms who risked not only their lives, but also their own confidence to continue playing Daenerys Targaryen.
In conversation with Big Issue, the actress said that she was initially worried because she thought that they could “fire” her after suffering his aneurysms. Not only that, faced with the fear of not being able to act again in her life, the actress She asked the medical staff to “let her die”.
“When you have a brain injury, all the insecurities you have when going to work quadruple overnight, because your sense of self is altered in a dramatic way,” he told the actress. “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 won’t be able to complete the job?” Clarke added.
In that sense, after returning to the Game of Thrones recording set, the actress recalled that at some point she came to think that: “Well, if I’m going to die, I better die on television.”.
The first aneurysm that Emilia Clarke suffered occurred in 2011, in the middle of the making of the first and second seasons of the series, while the second aneurysm occurred in 2013.
“Having a chronic illness that diminishes your confidence in what you feel is your reason for living is very debilitating and very lonely.”Clarke remarked. “One of the most important things I felt with a brain injury was be deeply alone. That’s what we’re trying to overcome,” she added.
But with the passage of time, the actress explained that she has managed to deal with the situation and even her experiences with aneurysms gave her a kind of “superpower” to face this type of adversity.
