You might get to read Emilia Clarke's journal from the final 'Game of Thrones' season
Emilia Clarke has got your back, Game of Thrones fans.
Phones and cameras of any kind were banned from the set of the HBO series for security reasons during the filming of the final season. So Clarke, who plays Queen Daenerys Targaryen (as well as Qi'Ra in Solo: A Star Wars Story), documented her final days on the show in a journal.
This is one of the many revelations unearthed in a new Vanity Fair profile. Clarke has a lot of thoughts about her time on the HBO series, specifically the way its lineup of strong female characters -- hers included -- exists in a cultural space now dominated by pressing conversations about gender equality.
Clarke is very tuned into the fact that the many female power players on Game of Thrones are hitting their peak while Hollywood faces a Time's Up reckoning. She pushed for income equality with her male co-stars back in 2014 -- "I get fucking paid the same as my guy friends," she said -- and she's excited to at last share scenes with Sophie Turner's Sansa and Maisie Williams' Arya during the final season.
"This is going to be a Band-Aid that I’m going to rip off," she said during her interview.
She wants to talk about all of this at great length, but she can't. Her time on the Game of Thrones set may be over -- shooting for Season 8 is now complete -- but the remaining six episodes won't be airing until 2019.
The journal she kept on set is meant to help with that process, as will behind-the-scenes photos snapped by official HBO photographer Helen Sloan. Clarke suggested that once everything is over, both her journal and those photos will see some kind of public release.
And after that, we'll see. Clarke is planning to recreate a road trip her parents took in 1972 with best friend Lola Frears, and she'll spend that time working on projects of her own creation. She ultimately wants to work on documentaries that highlight underrepresented causes.
"That's something I have in common with Dae-nerys," she said. "I really feel for people and I want to help them. Not to sound too much like Oprah Winfrey."
Clarke paused here, before correcting herself. "Fuck that, I’m gonna sound like Oprah and I’m going to be proud of it."
Topics Game Of Thrones HBO
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