--- title: Emilia Clarke on Filming Her Final Game of Thrones Scene description: Sounds like Emilia Clarke channeled her inner Cersei Lannister to deal with the emotions of filming her final scene of Game of Thrones. canonical: https://time.com/5549722/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-final-scene/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-12T14:37:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:02.618Z og:title: Emilia Clarke Relatably Handled the End of Game of Thrones og:description: The Mother of Dragons was in her feelings og:url: https://time.com/5549722/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-final-scene/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1817d0c60530cd0/698944ab929fad92cdbf2a80/game-of-thrones-season-8-photos-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2405 og:image:height: 1353 og:image:alt: Game of Thrones Season 8 Photos og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emilia Clarke Relatably Handled the End of Game of Thrones twitter:description: The Mother of Dragons was in her feelings twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1817d0c60530cd0/698944ab929fad92cdbf2a80/game-of-thrones-season-8-photos-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Way That Emilia Clarke Handled Her Final _Game of Thrones_ Scene Is Very Relatable > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 12, 2019 2:37 PM UTC  Helen Sloan—HBO  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 12, 2019 2:37 PM UTC Sounds like [Emilia Clarke](http://time.com/5401831/emilia-clarke-tattoo-mother-of-dragons/) channeled her inner [Cersei Lannister](http://time.com/5546222/cersei-drinking-wine/) to deal with the emotions of filming her final scene of [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/5517025/game-of-thrones-binge-watch-recaps/). According to [_The Independent_](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/game-of-thrones-season-8-emilia-clarke-final-epiode-scenes-cry-tears-daenerys-targaryen-a8816566.html), Clarke told the _Press Association_ that after shedding “loads of tears” while reciting her last lines as Daenerys Targaryen, she turned to a glass of wine to try to soothe the pain of wrapping up her iconic run as the Mother of Dragons. “That was the moment I realized that alcohol can also be a depressant,” she said. “I was kind of nursing a glass of wine going, ‘I don’t know why I’m not getting any happier from this.'” This definitely seems like a page ripped right out of the book of Cersei, who has a glass of wine in hand more often than not while ruling over the Seven Kingdoms. Clarke also revealed that she wandered around London aimlessly for hours after reading the _Game of Thrones_ season 8 script for the first time. “It might as well have been raining and I would’ve just walked in it not knowing what to do,” she said. _Game of Thrones_ returns for its eighth and final season on April 14 and the finale is bound to be emotional for fans. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5549722/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-final-scene/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5549722/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-final-scene/"},"headline":"The Way That Emilia Clarke Handled Her Final Game of Thrones Scene Is Very Relatable","datePublished":"2019-03-12T14:37:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:02.618Z","description":"The Mother of Dragons took a page out of her rival's book","url":"https://time.com/5549722/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-final-scene/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","TV","emilia clarke","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1817d0c60530cd0/698944ab929fad92cdbf2a80/game-of-thrones-season-8-photos-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1817d0c60530cd0/698944ab929fad92cdbf2a80/game-of-thrones-season-8-photos-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Game of Thrones Season 8 Photos","caption":"Kit Harington as Jon Snow and Emilia Clarkeas Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones","creditText":"Helen Sloan—HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5549722/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-final-scene/","name":"The Way That Emilia Clarke Handled Her Final Game of Thrones Scene Is Very Relatable"}}]}] ```