Emilia Clarke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I've had two brain hemorrhages.
I've had Game of Thrones and nothing.
There is nothing.
worse.
It's the single most transformative thing that's ever happened.
Definitely.
Definitely.
It's this thing where when I find and when I meet women who've also lost their fathers,
The thing that happened that you can never predict or understand, it feels like the safety net in the world has gone, but it's a safety net you didn't know was there.
And it was just unfathomable.
I'm a relentlessly optimistic person, and it was unfathomable that that could happen.
And it took me years to just comprehend it.
The, like the finality of it, the enormity of it.
Um, and we just weren't prepared and it wasn't, at no point did anyone say your dad's dying of cancer.
It was just like, oh, there's, this is wrong with him.
And then this is wrong with him.
And then this is wrong with him.
And he'd had this cancer diagnosis.
Um, and I was way, I was filming.
and I went back.