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But apparently Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen on _Game of Thrones_, was offered the role of Anastasia Steele in the S&M movie _Fifty Shades of Grey_. Clarke [told](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/game-thrones-star-emilia-clarke-783854) _The Hollywood Reporter_ that she turned down the offer. “No regrets,” she said in the interview. “I’d done nudity before and was concerned with being labeled for doing it again.” The wildly popular HBO show, of course, demands plenty of nudity from nearly all its actors. But now that she’s earning a rumored $7 million per season on the show, Clarke presumably has a little more control over how often she strips down. “There are other women who remove items of clothing on our show, so they’ve kind of got my nipple count down now,” she joked. Instead of _Fifty Shades_, Clarke took a starring role as badass Sarah Connor in _Terminator: Genisys_ with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie premieres July 1, but first Clarke will return as Khaleesi in _Game of Thrones’_ fifth season premiere on April 12. \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/game-thrones-star-emilia-clarke-783854)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3758889/game-of-thrones-emilia-clarke-fifty-shades-of-grey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3758889/game-of-thrones-emilia-clarke-fifty-shades-of-grey/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke Says She Turned Down Fifty Shades","datePublished":"2015-03-25T20:59:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:26:44.330Z","description":"The actress who plays Khaleesi says she was concerned about getting a reputation for doing nudity","url":"https://time.com/3758889/game-of-thrones-emilia-clarke-fifty-shades-of-grey/","keywords":["celebrities","Television","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68070303871e9716/698782e7cd1bba0c046f59d6/game-of-thrones-season-5-khaleesi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68070303871e9716/698782e7cd1bba0c046f59d6/game-of-thrones-season-5-khaleesi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Game of Thrones Season 5","caption":"Game of Thrones Season 5","creditText":"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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3758889/game-of-thrones-emilia-clarke-fifty-shades-of-grey/","name":"Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke Says She Turned Down Fifty Shades"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Apple Event: Game of Thrones Trailer","description":"Apple Event: Game of Thrones Trailer","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/TVaWrM1Q/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-03-09T18:20:31.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TVaWrM1Q.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3758889/game-of-thrones-emilia-clarke-fifty-shades-of-grey/","duration":"PT1M46S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3758889/game-of-thrones-emilia-clarke-fifty-shades-of-grey/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```