Newly nominated Emilia Clarke was interviewed by the LA Times yesterday to get her reaction to her Outstanding Supporting Actress nomination. Like all nomination stories, hers is about being in a funny place in public when she found out and having to not freak out lest they think her mad. (In this case, a doctor’s office.) But in her excitement and joy at being nominated, when asked about Game of Thrones Season 6, she spills a few beans.
Ooooh. Oooooh there’s so much in store for her. I’m saying that obviously because I’ve read the script for next season. Muwah ha ha! I know stories. It’s really exciting.
Seriously, she cackled evilly. I wish there were audio.
…I’ve said this before, but there’s a lot of season where you need to (rightly so) kind of need to set the scene. And you have a couple of episodes where you’re like, “OK, feeding information, I get it. We’re finding out about this person. And we know about that person. And oh, there’s that person.” But this season coming up, that we’re about to film, there’s none of that. It’s just go, go, go, go. Shocking moment to shocking moment. Epic moment to epic moment. It’s mental; it’s epic.
That’s quite exciting. One of the hallmarks of Game of Thrones is that every season (save Season 4) starts out slow in order to build all the pieces up in order to knock them back down. Part of the issue people had with Season 5 was going back to that structure of endless episodes of set up before getting to the big action sequences, since Season 4 didn’t have that. It sounds like Season 6 will return to the Season 4 “dropping you in the middle of right where we left off.”
As for how Dany is doing after all her setbacks from last season:
I think that she’s definitely on the upwards trajectory of truly learning from the mistakes that she’s made as a ruler. It’s not so much a matter of learning from the mistakes that have gone before her, but it’s a matter of her trusting herself and being confident in the decisions that she’s about to make. And being confident enough to stand next to those decisions and take full responsibility for them.
She also notes that Dany is now willing to sacrifice things she loves for the greater good, starting with the ring she dropped in the finale.
She loved that ring, but she sacrificed it because there were people coming to find her. I think there’s so much yet to come with Daenerys; she’s very exciting.
We’re very excited too. I can’t wait to see Dany take charge of a new Khalasar and start conquering left and right again. Sitting and ruling is just not her style.
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