Emilia Clarke is back for her sixth season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” as the woman who would be queen … and she would be perfectly happy to rule the world. But for now, just surviving the final seasons of the anybody-can-die-at-any-time series is a worthy goal.<\/p>\n
Her Daenerys Targaryen has risen from one of the lowest possible starting points \u2013 a \u201cput-upon, abused, naive child,\u201d as Clarke has previously described her, sold by her brother in a foreign land \u2013 to perhaps the most powerful person on the show. Despite such setbacks, the khaleesi <\/em>remains a smart-money pick to eventually win the game of thrones.<\/p>\n The actress has other interests \u2013 she was in \u201cBreakfast at Tiffany\u2019s\u201d on Broadway, has a burgeoning film career including the new \u201cMe Before You,\u201d and is writing a comedy with a friend \u2013 but scoffs at even dreaming of quitting her character\u2019s fascinating journey before the show completes what HBO has said will be two more seasons after this one.<\/p>\n Though returning after time off from filming can be difficult. \u201cIt can be tricky when you come back for Season 6 and you\u2019ve forgotten the Dothraki [language] and you\u2019re trying to be commanding and they\u2019re like, \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s go back from \u201cHibbah \u2013 gibbah \u2013 rrraaahh\u201d \u2026 Go back from the top.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDany\u201d is likely one of the most beloved female characters in TV dramatic history. Rolling Stone placed her No. 1 on its list of Top 40 characters from the show. She even got name-checked by Keegan-Michael Key during a comic bit with none other than President Obama, when Key warned Republicans of Hillary Clinton\u2019s approach: \u201cKhaleesi is coming to Westeros!\u201d (Obama is reportedly a fan of the show.)<\/p>\n \u201cBecause I was a young girl when I started this \u2013 I still am! A young lady! \u2013 I have an affinity to that demographic in fans,\u201d says Clarke, who notes she has \u201cdocumented my 20s on television.\u201d \u201cWhen one of them comes up to you and says how the performance or the show or an aspect of the character changed or affected them in some way, that\u2019s the thing that always gets me most. It\u2019s an incredible and humbling experience.\u201d<\/p>\n Clarke doesn\u2019t shy from the complaints in some quarters about a perceived misogynistic streak in the series:\u00a0\u201cThe show is pretty equal in terms of strong men and strong women,\u201d she says. \u201cThere are a lot of shows you watch with \u2026 four men and the wife, six dudes and the girlfriend. On \u2018Game of Thrones,\u2019 you don\u2019t have that. So if you have a lot of women on the show, you have the ability to show some that are having a hard time, some that are having a great time, some that are having an OK time. Some that are wives, some that are girlfriends, and some that are the main part \u2013 like with dudes!\u201d<\/p>\n Season 6 finds Dany dropped back among the Dothraki, initially without an ally in sight. It\u2019s where she began her rise to power, but it\u2019s also the land and the people from which she had to escape once her husband, Khal Drogo, died. It seems it takes more than an army of Mongol-like horse lords to hold her back. After all, she is the Mother of Dragons and after the fiery destruction she wreaked in the recent \u201cBook of the Stranger\u201d episode, her push to Westeros should strike fear in the hearts of any remaining Lannisters and the High Sparrow as well.<\/p>\n She says she asks show runners David Benioff and Dan Weiss \u201call the time, \u2018What\u2019s happening?\u2019 or I try to get them drunk and manipulate it out of them, but nothing. Nothing. They\u2019re a vault. They watch me squirming: \u2018Never gonna tell you.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n Even the most rabid fans of George R.R. Martin\u2019s books don\u2019t know what \u2013 besides winter \u2013 is coming. There won\u2019t be any more sub rosa \u201creactions to the Red Wedding\u201d videos, because the show has outpaced the novels. HBO\u2019s most popular series is now in uncharted waters, leaving Clarke desperate to know where the reigning drama series Emmy champ is headed.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day,\u201d she says, \u201cI want to win! I want to be on the throne! Please! You gave me dragons, give me the throne!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source:\u00a0latimes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emilia Clarke is back for her sixth season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” as the woman who would be queen … and she would be perfectly happy to rule the world. But for now, just surviving the final seasons of the anybody-can-die-at-any-time series is a worthy goal. Her Daenerys Targaryen ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4450],"tags":[6115],"class_list":["post-46828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diafora-en","tag-game-of-thrones-en"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"\n