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Emilia Clarke, who starred arsenic Daenerys Targaryen connected each 8 seasons of HBO's Game of Thrones, has not watched its prequel bid House of the Dragon. Find retired why.
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The Mother of Dragons cannot bring herself to ticker House of the Dragon.
The actress, who starred as Daenerys Targaryen connected each 8 seasons of HBO's Game of Thrones, hasn't been capable to get her eyes connected its prequel bid House of the Dragon, which premiered successful August.
As for why, Emilia explained that it's much analyzable than you mightiness think.
"It's excessively weird," the Last Christmas prima told Variety Jan. 20. "I'm truthful blessed it's happening. I'm implicit the satellite astir each the awards…I conscionable can't bash it. It's truthful weird. It's truthful strange."
Emilia compared it to thing beauteous overmuch everybody tin subordinate to, explaining, "It's benignant of similar idiosyncratic saying, ‘You privation to spell to this schoolhouse reunion that's not your year? Want to spell to that schoolhouse reunion?' That's however it feels. I'm avoiding it."
Indeed, House of the Dragon took location the Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Drama connected Jan. 10, thing that, coincidentally, Game of Thrones was ne'er capable to bash contempt being nominated 5 times.
If Emilia ever does privation to dive into House of the Dragon, she'll get an extended past acquisition about Daenerys' backstory.
Based connected the Fire & Blood caller by George R. R. Martin, the archetypal season—which starred Paddy Considine, Emma D'Arcy, Matt Smith, Tom Glynn-Carney, Milly Alcock, Emily Carey, Olivia Cooke and Rhys Ifans—takes spot 200 years earlier the events of Game of Thrones erstwhile House Targaryen reigned implicit Westeros.
Emilia isn't the lone erstwhile Game of Thrones formed subordinate who expressed immoderate hesitation astir watching the prequel series.
In October 2021, Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow, told Insider, "I deliberation to spot radical get into outfits and costumes, that lucifer what we wore for each those years, and it [has] the aforesaid euphony and benignant and tone, but not beryllium successful it is ever going to feel. There's going to beryllium a rawness there."
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If Emilia changes her mind, the archetypal play of House of the Dragon is disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max.
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