Emilia Clarke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I wrapped the first season of Game of Thrones.
Wild experience.
Biggest job of note, you know?
I'd never done anything with America.
I didn't really quite understand the level of what HBO was and could be and clueless, but had the most incredible time.
But it flipped my life upside down, so I was quite stressed.
And we wrapped that in December and February, I was in the gym doing a plank and had my first brain hemorrhage.
And then spent the next two weeks with my agent trying to not tell HBO until they knew I wouldn't die.
So the first two weeks after a brain injury, if you're not clearly severely mentally disabled or in a coma or whatever it might be.
That's the, they're just waiting for something to go wrong.
They're waiting for it to get worse.
I was in A&E until they worked out what was wrong with me.
And then I went to a different hospital and they were, you know, plugging me in.
And I just kept trying to say, like, I've got to go to work.
Like, I don't, like, I can't be here.
How long am I, how long is this going to take?
And they're like, you've got, your brain is bleeding.
It's going to take quite some time.
So that took a long time for me to wrap my head around.
But as soon as I left hospital, I had maybe...