Posted on 12/02/2019 4:45:58 PM PST by Kaslin
What happens on the big screen doesn’t always stay on the big screen.
Actress Emilia Clarke, who rose to fame after starring in HBO’s Game of Thrones, recently revealed that she was pressured to film scenes naked for the show. She’s not alone – actresses from Evangeline Lilly to Jennifer Lawrence have admitted to either crying or drinking in response to filming scenes with little to no clothing.
Speaking on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast, the 33-year-old expressed her disbelief when she first landed the role of Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, which premiered in 2011.
“Obviously, I took the job,” she said in the podcast released late November. “They sent me the scripts and I was reading them and I was, it was like, ‘Oh, there’s the catch.’”
But finding out about the show’s nudity didn’t stop her.
Right out of drama school, she decided to “approach this as a job” and believed that “if it’s in this script, then it’s clearly needed.” But when she actually began filming the first season, which had a “f–- ton of nudity,” she felt a bit differently.
“I have no idea what I’m doing, I have no idea what any of this is, I’ve never been on a film set like this before,” she remembered. “And now I’m on a film set completely naked with all of these people.”
She would dismiss her feelings, have a cry in the bathroom, and then return to filming. That’s when a co-star, Jason Momoa, stepped in. Momoa plays Khal Drogo, who rapes Daenerys after she’s sold into marriage with him. Later in the show, she develops feelings for him.
“The scenes, when I got to do them with Jason, were wonderful because he was like, ‘No, sweetie, this isn’t okay,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh,’” Clarke said.
She acknowledged that filming nude “is terrifying” and that, during rape scenes, Momoa was even “crying more than I was.”
A more experienced actor, Momoa knew more about what should and shouldn’t happen on set, she said.
“He was always like, “Can we get her a f--king robe? … She’s shivering.’ Like, it was a lot of that.”
Today, she says, she’s a “lot more savvy about what I’m comfortable with.”
“Like I’ve had fights on set before where I’m like ‘No, sheet stays up,’” she said, “and they’re like, ‘You don’t want to disappoint your Games of Thrones fans,’ and I’m like, ‘F--k you.’”
Later on in the show, when she filmed nude for the last time, she said she agreed: “This is mine, they’ve asked me to do it, and you know what, I’m f--king game.”
But even then, she said, “it brings into question, the thing of like, what it is like being under the gaze of people you’ll never meet.”
Sadly, Clarke joins a long list of actresses who have felt similarly. In 2018, actress Evangeline Lilly likewise revealed during a podcast that she was pressured to film nude during Lost.
“I’d had a bad experience on set with being basically cornered into doing a scene partially naked, and I felt I had no choice in the matter,” she recalled. “And I was mortified and I was trembling. When it finished, I was crying my eyes out.”
She added, during a UK interview that same year, that she drank to survive the role in general.
“Good god it was terrifying!” she exclaimed. “It really f***ed me up. Am I allowed to say that? I drank a lot to get through it. I didn’t sleep a lot. All alone, in a totally different culture, in a different country.”
According to a 2016 Maxim piece, other celebrities have admitted to drinking while filming sex scenes, including Jennifer Lawrence, Lizzy Caplan, and Keira Knightley.
Others respond in different ways. While filming a scene in Easy A, Emma Stone said she experienced an asthma attack while Reese Witherspoon, in Wild, had a panic attack.
Both Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman found their Black Swan sex scene uncomfortable. Titanic star Kate Winslet called one nude scene “sort of unethical.” And, following a sex scene in Spring Breakers, Vanessa Hudgens decided she never wanted to film something like that again.
In 2017, Salma Hayek wrote in the New York Times about being forced into a sex scene with another actress – by the infamous Harvey Weinstein.
Going as far back as 2000, one New York Times Magazine piece explored “The Pressure To Take It Off” and reported on actresses discussing their mixed feelings on nudity.
Actress Rosie Perez remembered her first time getting naked on camera came while filming Do the Right Thing.
“It wasn't really about taking off my clothes. But I also didn't feel good about it because the atmosphere wasn't correct,” she said. “And when Spike Lee puts ice cubes on my nipples, the reason you don't see my head is because I'm crying.”
Every actress, in the end, makes choices regarding what she will or will not film. At the same time, Americans should remain aware of how young women can be pressured or manipulated by Hollywood – and support films that value actresses not as mere sexual objects but as human persons.
Perverts want to see her nude
Yet this idiot is a leftist that openly supports the Democratic Party’s evil pedophile platform.
Good looking and stupid. Sad
This is unbelievable
As if the cast was unaware that GOT was soft porn fantasy.
“Perverts want to see her nude.”
Then I’m a pervert. They didn’t call that show “T**** and Dragons” for nothing.
L
HBO, Netflix, almost all of their shows have on average 2 screwing scenes per episode. Really bad shit.
It’s only because the writers are too stupid to do any more.
Isn’t there a term for people who do this stuff for $$$ ?
Every one of them chose fame and fortune over modesty. Zero sympathy.
Yup, it’s just horrible. Like they couldn’t say no and not do it. Guns to their heads.
And Jennifer is happy to have pics taken of herself nude and having sex. and wearing an xmen form fitting costume for a whole bunch of films.
#donotbelievethem
“And I’m like, there’s nothing f***ing wholesome about f***ing taking your f***ing clothes off for some f***ing f*** scene in a f***ing movie.”
All of these pretty girls routinely using “f*ck” in normal conversation is certainly a turnoff. Wonder how many of them had to perform “favors” for Harvey Epstein or his equivalent to even get the role?
Exactly. Now they want to cloak themselves in moral outrage, and it just does not fit.
Now that's she's famous, she tells us.
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Emilia Clarke's nude scenes were integral to the role that would make her a millionaire and one of the most bankable famous actresses currently working in Hollywood. There's thousands of girls who would've done anything for the role of Daenerys Targaryen.
I'm sure reading this right now is some no-name actress who jiggled her tits in some teen slasher film for peanuts thinking, "I wish I had Emilia Clarke's problems."
She had a choice to make: walk away or do the scene.
if they were bothered by it they do what a normal woman does and say NO.
“but i wont get any work”
Do you realize how much work places like The Hallmark channel and Lifetime would give them, they would work for life in these places. Or regular tv even?
The third choice is to get them to modify the scene, because that is an option that occurs sometimes.
The writers, directors, producers get off on it. Former nerds who couldn’t get girls getting to call the shots now, literally.
I no longer support any films.
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