“honestly, I think initially there was just such a desire to connect, I think what you see initially is intimacy, and an intimacy that rhaenyra shares so rarely... as soon as they embrace and their bodies are touching, I think it’s pure bodily desire.”
emma d'arcy on rhaenyra
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“I’m very grateful to have been entrusted with such a treasured and important character. But for a long time, I felt like a visitor in the Game of Thrones universe. It’s only now, after Season 2, that I feel I’ve received my Westeros passport.”
emma d’arcy for muse magazine
Did you get any advice from GOT actors on how to navigate the world you’ve entered?
Emma: “I spoke to Emilia Clarke before I started shooting, and she was beautiful and so generous. [What did she tell you?] Loads of stuff, which honestly, I’m going to keep for myself”