Emilia Clarke’s audition for Game of Thrones is hilarious
Emilia Clarke is one of the most popular actresses on HBO’s hit TV series Game of Thrones. But, did you know during her audition for GOT she did the funky chicken and the robot?
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According to an interview with Jay Duplass for Variety and PBS’ fourth season of “Actors on Actors,” Clarke revealed that she didn’t have a long resume or acting career prior to the show. So she realized that she didn’t have a killer audition she asked the show’s creator David Benioff if there is anything else she can do. That’s when Benioff responded by joking ‘You can do a dance’ and Clarke took him seriously. That’s when she started doing the Funky Chicken and robot dance.
“David Benioff and Dan Weiss and Frank Doelger and Carolyn Strauss — all producers on the show, showrunners — they had seen me in England and they had brought me over. And they were kind of, ‘Oh so this chick we found somewhere in London who’s done nothing but one episode of a daytime TV show, we’d like her to be this main character on this new show we’re doing.’ So, I needed to go in and be like, they weren’t crazy,” Clarke said.
“So then I went in and I did the scenes and then I was like, ‘Can I do anything else? Is there anything else you want me to do?’ And, David Benioff was like ‘You can do a dance’ LOL as a joke and I took him so seriously,” she added.
Clarke says it all started because she avoided sugar prior to the audition, in order to get in shape for the role. But right before the audition she was offered a Diet Coke and she got “jacked up” on soda right before reading for the part.
You can watch the interview below.
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