‘I feel heartbreak’: Emilia Clarke discusses negative fan reactions to the final episodes of Game of Thrones… but praises the show for giving her ‘absolute financial freedom’ after earning $500k PER EPISODE
Emilia Clarke has spoken out about the ‘heartbreak’ she feels over negative fan reactions to the Game of Thrones finale.
Speaking to this week’s Stellar magazine, the 32-year-old said she felt sorry for executive producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss over the response.
The English actress revealed: ‘I was too busy focusing on my own reactions to really pay too much attention, if any at all.
‘I feel heartbreak’: Emilia Clarke (pictured) discussed the negative fan reactions to the final episodes of Game of Thrones in this week’s Stellar magazine
‘The only thing I felt truthfully sad about was that David and Dan are my really good friends, and so it’s for them that I feel heartbreak, because it’s theirs.’
Despite the backlash over the show’s final episodes, Emilia says that she has ‘financial freedom’ thanks to her lucrative turn on the show.
It has been reported that Game of Thrones’ biggest stars such as Emilia and Kit Harington were making as much as $USD 500,000 an episode.
She told the publication: ‘There is an absolute freedom that Thrones has given me – a gift-wrapped present in a little bow saying, ‘You’re now financially secure enough to not have to panic, so what do you want to do?'”
The 32-year-old said she felt sorry for executive producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss: ‘The only thing I felt truthfully sad about was that David and Dan are my really good friends, and so it’s for them that I feel heartbreak’ she said. Pictured in Game of Thrones with Kit Harington
‘That kind of freedom is wonderful. I could never see it during the time I was filming, because I was too close to it,’ she added.
Emilia has also revealed in a past interview with E! that after she read the series finale script for Game of Thrones, she ‘wandered’ around trying to wrap her head around it.
‘Yeah, after reading the Game of Thrones finale script, I wandered the streets of London because I just didn’t know what the hell I had just read,’ she said.
Hefty! Despite the backlash over the show’s final episodes, Emilia says that she has ‘financial freedom’ thanks to her lucrative turn on the show. It has been reported that she was making as much as $USD 500,000 an episode
She tells the publication: ‘There is an absolute freedom that Thrones has given me – a gift-wrapped present in a little bow saying, ‘You’re now financially secure enough to not have to panic, so what do you want to do?”
‘I kind of had to percolate on it and I had some funny conversations with friends like, ‘You guys think she’s cool, right?”
The star also told Access Hollywood that she and her co-star Ben Crompton stole ‘an arrow from one of the battles and then we hid it’.
She added that she will not miss wearing her corset, stating, ‘I didn’t like the corset. The corset didn’t like me. I was in there for sure.’
The beauty will next star in Last Christmas, where she plays a woman suffering a serious illness.
Read more: In this week’s copy of Stellar magazine