news culture A Game of Thrones actress turned down a role in this hit saga because of the BDSM scenes!
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There are roles that aren’t easy to take on, knowing the project will sell like hot cakes. In fact, if the sex scenes can sometimes shock the public, they can also dissuade certain actors and actresses from accepting a role, as was the case with this famous Game of Thrones actress.
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- A humble dragon mother
- Tastes… very special
A humble dragon mother
From the beginning of the broadcast of game of Thrones, the series had shocked the public for its high number of sex scenes, for its violence, and sometimes for both at the same time. And if these kinds of scenes could unsettle viewers, so did the actors themselves, who were sometimes young and inexperienced at the time of filming.
Emilia Clarke, who played the famous Daenerys Targaryen, was barely 23 when she agreed to play the dragon mother. Game of Thrones was his first role back then, and the fact that he had to film sex scenes from the first season didn’t leave him unmoved. She confided in this experience to journalists from the Daily Mail:
I was scared, I had never been on a film set before and suddenly I had to undress in front of all these people. I didn’t know what to do, what was expected of me, what they wanted, or even what I wanted. Whether or not there’s nudity, I spent the first season thinking I wasn’t worth asking for anything. If it’s in the script, it’s necessary.
An extremely difficult situation that prompted the British actress to use her newfound notoriety to change things. In the last few seasons of Game of Thrones, she was also able to ask for the number of nude scenes affecting her to be reduced Avoid a project that could have been even worse: starring in the Fifty Shades of Gray saga.
Tastes… very special
Before the role of Dakota Johnson was accepted, It is actually Emilia Clarke who was chosen to play Anastasia Steele in the Fifty Shades of Gray saga. As a reminder, this is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name, which tells the adventures of a young girl and a wealthy businessman who knows BDSM. While the project was destined to be a smash hit (it ultimately grossed $1.3 billion at the box office) and was helmed by a director who was particularly fond of Emilia Clarke, The British actress explains why she decided to pass:
I had done nudity before and was afraid I would do it again. Sam (Taylor-Johnson, the director, editor’s note) is a magician. I love her and I think her vision was beautiful but I couldn’t. I was already categorized with minimal scenes, but then I couldn’t make a film where everything revolved around the subject
The experience of Game of Thrones was therefore enough for Emilia Clarke to know that she did not want to repeat it in another successful production, under the penalty of becoming famous for only shooting films and series with strong sexual content. An understandable decision that she wasn’t the only one to make, as the role of Christian Gray was originally intended to go to Ryan Gosling.
