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'Game of Thrones' Star Emilia Clarke's Emotional Goodbye to Daenerys Will Break You


Just one week after HBO aired its final episode of Game of Thrones, fans were treated to a behind-the-scenes look into the making of the show’s eighth and final season in the documentary The Last Watch. If you tuned in, you definitely saw how Kit Harington reacted to that shocking Jon Snow/Daenerys Targaryen scene in the finale—but there’s also there’s a good chance you’re still sobbing over Emilia Clarke‘s emotional goodbye to Dany. Truly nothing could have prepared viewers for the footage that shows the actress getting her hair done and the moment hitting her hard.

“There’s definitely an exhale of breath,” she tells her hairdresser, Candice Banks, as she gets her blonde wig put on for the last time ever. “It’s kind of exciting to sort of think: ‘Oh, who am I without this, then?’ I wonder.”

“That was Emilia’s last shot on Game of Thrones,” a crew member announces in the next clip after Clarke finishes up her final scene. She later hugs showrunner Dan Weiss and co-star Maisie Williams before heading back to her trailer to discover that someone had written “Goodbye Dany, Hello Emilia” on her mirror.

It’s safe that no matter how fans really felt about the series finale, it’s hard not to get emotional over Clarke’s goodbye.

If that wasn’t enough, she also bid farewell to Dany last week on Instagram, thanking her for shaping her “as a woman, as an actor, and as a human being.”

“Finding the words to write this post has left me overwhelmed with how much I want to say but how small words feel in comparison to what this show and Dany have meant to me. The mother of dragons chapter has taken up the whole of my adult life. This woman has taken up the whole of my heart,” she wrote. “But to you, dear kind magical fans, I owe you so much thanks, for your steady gaze at what we’ve made and what I’ve done with a character that was already in the hearts of many before I slipped on the platinum wig of dreams.

“Without you there is no us. And now our watch has ended,” she concluded.

Although there’s no more Khaleesi (or is there?), at least fans can hold out for the forthcoming Game of Thrones prequel that’s reportedly in the works at HBO.





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Emilia Clarke's Braid at the Game of Thrones Season 8 Premiere Nodded to Daenerys


Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons—that’s how most of us came to know actress Emilia Clarke on Game of Thrones. But we should also probably add Master of Red Carpet Beauty to her title.

Seriously, she (and her glam squad) never disappoint whether it’s debuting a new hair color or going all-in on dramatic hair and makeup, like she did for the GoT season eight premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Wednesday night.

Let’s start with the hair, complete with an intricate braid that hairstylist Jenny Cho confirmed was a nod to Clarke’s most famous character. “EMILIA ?. For tonight’s look, I wanted to incorporate a braid as a nod to #DaenerysTargaryen, the queen of dragons #khaleesi,” Cho captioned an image of the look on Instagram. From the loops and varying braid widths to the sprigs of hair springing forth and visible from the front, it’s everything Dany stans could dream of.

The makeup, by Kate Lee, was equally dramatic—with both a bold eye and lip—and fit for a queen.

Lee also shared a shot of the Chanel makeup kit she used to create Clarke’s look. She broke down all the products she used in her Instagram. For the strong ’90s lip, she combined Chanel Le Crayon Lèvres in Rouge Noir ($31), Chanel Hydra Beauty Nourishing Lip Care ($50), and the darkest shade from Chanel Les 4 Ombres Multi-Effect Quadra Eye Shadow ($62) as a lip powder.

On her eyes, Lee relied on Chanel Les 4 Ombres in Mystère et Intensité ($62), Troy Surratt Smoky Eye Baton in Canons de Beauté Burgundy ($35), Chanel Inimitable Mascara in Brun ($32), and Chanel Le Volume Mascara in Ecorces ($32). She also filled in Clarke’s beautifully strong brows with Koh Gen Do Maifanshi Miineral Brow Pencil in Brown ($37) and Chantecaille Full Brow Perfecting Gel ($40).

Excuse us, while we now try to go re-create this perfect vision for the weekend.



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Emilia Clarke's Aneurysms Almost Killed Her—Women Need to Know the Risks


Emilia Clarke revealed earlier this week that while the world was falling at the feet of the ultimate feminist queen she embodies on Game of Thrones, she suffered not one but two brain aneurysms that nearly killed her.

Aneurysms—which are 1.5 times more common in women—are about as scary a diagnosis as you can get. They sound innocuous enough: blood-filled sacs that form on the side of a blood vessel, almost like a berry hanging off a vine. But they’re ticking time bombs.

Aneurysms hide in the brain rarely giving off any warnings that they’re there until it’s too late. If an aneurysm ruptures (which is also 1.5 times more likely to happen in women), it can be catastrophic. “For a patient who has an any rupture like Clarke did, the reality is that 40 percent of those patients don’t survive,” says Jeremy Heit, M.D., Ph.D, assistant professor of radiology and neurosurgery at Stanford University. “Of the people that survive, a third of them will do great like Clarke and make a full recovery but the other two-thirds will be left with some degree of disability.”

In an essay for The New Yorker, Clarke shared that after she’d finished filming season one of GOT, she was in the middle of a workout when suddenly it felt as though her brain was being squeezed inside her skull. “My trainer had me get into the plank position, and I immediately felt as though an elastic band were squeezing my brain. I tried to ignore the pain and push through it, but I just couldn’t,” she wrote. She dragged herself to the bathroom “and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill. Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse,” she continued. “At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”

An aneurysm rupture is often described as the “worst headache of my life”—the phrase is so consistent, doctors are taught to immediately investigate a possible aneurysm when they hear it. “The way patients describe it to me, it’s like a light switch. It’s instantaneous, like someone flicked a switch and they just have this horrendous headache,” Dr. Heit says. It’s an entirely different category of pain, he says, worse than any normal headache or even migraine. It’s so remarkable, “the vast majority of people know that there’s a problem,” he says. “If it’s something that’s really quite different or it really is the worst headache of your life, don’t mess around with that,” Dr. Heit says. “You need to get to a hospital and get evaluated.” Other key signs to look for: vomiting, dizziness, loss of consciousness, and stiffness in your neck. Some patients even have seizures.

At the hospital, Clarke was diagnosed with a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)—a type of stroke and the neurological term for a ruptured aneurysm.

Doctors aren’t sure completely sure what causes aneurysms—lifestyle factors like hypertension, smoking, and drug use have all been linked to aneurysms and genetics might also play a role—or why they happen in women as young as Clarke, who was only 24 at the time. (Aneurysms typically happen in women over 35.)

Doctors do know that a nightmare gym scenario like Clarke’s isn’t an uncommon way for an aneurysm to pop. Increased blood pressure from a strenuous activity like working out—or even orgasm—can cause that quietly ticking time bomb to explode. Emotional stress even has the potential to cause an aneurysm to rupture, says Gary Steinberg, M.D., Ph.D., chief of neurosurgery at Stanford Healthcare and chair of the department of neurosurgery at Stanford University.



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