Emilia Clarke watched videos of dictators and powerful leaders including Adolf Hitler for Game of Thrones’ finale speech

Emilia Clarke, who played Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, has said that she studied dictators and powerful leaders including Adolf Hitler to prepare for her final speech.

Emilia Clarke has said she studied dictators and powerful world leaders, one of them being Adolf Hitler, for her last speech as Daenerys Targaryen in the season finale of Game of Thrones.

Emilia Clarke in a scene from Game of Thrones. (AP)

In the early minutes of the HBO series’ final episode, Daenerys addresses an assembled horde of her Unsullied and Dothraki warriors in the fictitious High Valerian and Dothraki languages.

FILE PHOTO: Emilia Clarke poses at the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones at Radio City Music Hall in New York, USA on April 3, 2019.

“In giving all these speeches in fake languages, I watched a lot of videos of — now it seems funny — dictators and powerful leaders speaking a different language to see if I could understand what they were saying without knowing the language. And you can! You absolu

The actor, who lives in Northern Ireland, said she was a nervous wreck ahead of shooting the scene and spent innumerable hours practising her lines. “This speech meant so much to me. I was so worried that I was going to f*** it up. I stayed up so late every night for like two months. I said it to my cooker, I said it to my fridge.

Emilia Clarke’s speech was in the fictitious High Valerian and Dothraki languages in the final episode of Game of Thrones.

“I said it to all of Belfast out my window! Well, the window was closed because I didn’t want people to think I was actually barking mad,” she said.

The final season of HBO series has been heavily criticised by fans of the hit show. However, the show’s lead actors Kit Harington and Sophie Turner defended it and said it was “disrespectful” to assume that people behind the show did not give their best.

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