Nathalie Emmanuel: Game of Thrones ending was like “going through a breakup”
By Ariba Bhuvad
A mere few months ago, Game of Thrones concluded after eight seasons. It was hard to swallow for fans, but just imagine how strange it was for the cast members. For many of them, it was the entirety of their professionals, or at least the biggest and more important part of it. Some of them grew up on set. Now that it’s gone, what does life for them look like?
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei) said the experience was “was almost like going through a breakup.” Before landing the lead role in Mindy Kaling’s Four Weddings and a Funeral on Hulu, Emmanuel describes a very different sort of life for herself, “On my couch eating snacks in the middle of the afternoon watching Netflix, being a completely out-of-work actor.”
Honestly, that doesn’t sound so bad to me!
"When other shows had kind of come along… that needed a six-year option, I was like, ‘I’m not ready!’ It’s like I’m still sleeping in my old boyfriend’s jumper at night. I’m not ready for a new jumper. I’m not ready to date again! It was that sort of feeling. So, when they were like, ‘No, it’s like, a limited thing [for Four Weddings].’ I was like, ‘Oh, great. OK, cool.’"
After giving her all for the show, I think Emmanuel deserved a change of pace.
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One thing that was very different for Emmanuel on the set of Four Weddings and a Funeral versus Game of Thrones was the diversity. By the end of Thrones, Emmnauel was the only woman of color left in the cast, which was another reason her death hurt so much. Four Weddings, on the other hand, made a point to be diverse from the start:
"I think when you have a diverse place, you get to know more about other people’s points of view, and that’s important. I think we need that, and at a time when the world is so divided and there’s so much hate being spouted — I think this project is really timely and really, it’s just such a lovely thing to put out into the world. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will just give you warm, fuzzy feelings, and we need a bit of that right now. We just do."
That’s not say Emmanuel was down on Thrones. In another interview with ET, she was grateful for Missandei’s death sparking a conversation about representation. “I was given so much to do with Missandei over the course of the seasons that I was in, and the beautiful scenes and words that I got to say, like, and the kind of nuance of the scenes that I got to do was so amazing. But there is a wider issue of representation.”
Hopefully Emmanuel is over the breakup by now!
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h/t Digital Spy