Warning: Major Game of Thrones spoilers ahead.

Tonight’s series finale of Game of Thrones was surprising, to say the least. In a shocking turn of events, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) killed Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and was sentenced to rejoin the Night’s Watch. Also, the heads of Westeros appointed Bran Stark as king, and Sansa broke the North from the seven (now six) kingdoms to become queen in the North. The reactions to this finale have been mixed, but no one is more impassioned about it than Emilia Clarke, a.k.a. Dany.

“I cried,” Clarke told Entertainment Weekly about what it was like when she read the script for the first time. “And I went for a walk. I walked out of the house and took my keys and phone and walked back with blisters on my feet. I didn’t come back for five hours. I’m like, ‘How am I going to do this?’”

Interestingly, Kit Harington didn’t read the script until the cast’s final table read. Clarke was on a flight with Harington before this read-through and had a very hard time revealing spoilers. When he actually found out what happened, though, his reaction was not good.

“I looked at Emilia and there was a moment of me realizing, ‘No, no…’” Harington said, according to EW.

Clarke, however, nodded back, “Yes… He was crying,” she recalls. “And then it was kind of great him not having read it.”

Dany’s journey throughout the final season of GoT has been intense. Clarke summed it up perfectly in this quote she gave to EW:

“She genuinely starts with the best intentions and truly hopes there
isn’t going to be something scuttling her greatest plans. The problem
is [the Starks] don’t like her and she sees it. She goes, ‘Okay, one
chance.’ She gives them that chance and it doesn’t work and she’s too
far to turn around. She’s made her bed, she’s laying in it. It’s done.
And that’s the thing. I don’t think she realizes until it happens —
the real effect of their reactions on her is: ‘I don’t give a s—t.’
This is my whole existence. Since birth! She literally was brought
into this world going, ‘Run!’ These fuckers have fucked everything up,
and now it’s, ‘You’re our only hope.’ There’s so much she’s taken on
in her duty in life to rectify, so much she’s seen and witnessed and
been through and lost and suffered and hurt. Suddenly these people are
turning around and saying, ‘We don’t accept you.’ But she’s too far
down the line. She’s killed so many people already. I can’t turn this
ship around. It’s too much. One by one, you see all these strings
being cut. And there’s just this last thread she’s holding onto:
There’s this boy. And she thinks, ‘He loves me, and I think that’s
enough.’ But is it enough? Is it? And it’s just that hope and wishing
that finally there is someone who accepts her for everything she is
and … he fucking doesn’t.”

It’s only a matter of time before the theories on this Game of Thrones finale start rolling in. As always, we’ll keep you posted.

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