Emilia Clarke

interviews or experiences before where people really want you to be a diva and that is not me and never has been and this sounds like a humble brag as I'm saying it out loud but it's

As a kid growing up wanting to be an actor, it wasn't to be famous.

It was to be creative and be an actor.

And you sort of sometimes I just found myself in certain rooms where I was just like, I'm not meant to be here.

I felt like a big fat loser.

Oh, Amelia!

There's distance there.

So I can see it fully for all that it is.

It was...

way too big for me to comprehend even a year after it happened it was just it's like thinking about high school is how I always describe it because it was 10 years of my life yeah those friendships and relationships that you have become like family in that like there was fighting and there was difficult times and there was wonderful times but there was life people got married people got divorced people got kids you know these enormous things happened and looking back on Game of Thrones it's it's

The enormity of it for me is a lived experience of what I felt filming it, a lived experience of what was reflected back to me when you meet fans.

The freak outs I'd get for being, in the last couple of years at least, so visible.

As soon as I got recognized, there was... I used to get panic attacks.

I just couldn't handle it really in that moment.

And then you look back on it and you're sort of like, that was lightning in a bottle.

That was my youth.

That was like extraordinary, this extraordinary thing.

And I was a part of it.

And I...

You know?