Emilia Clarke Admits Learning Her Final 'Game of Thrones' Speech Was 'Hell'

Game of Thrones fans all remember the chilling scene from "The Iron Throne," the series' finale, when Daenerys Targaryen, after burning King's Landing to the ground, addresses her army in Dothraki, thanking them for their service and calling upon them to join her in (basically) world domination.

Though GoT star Emilia Clarke had spoken the fictional language throughout her tenure on the HBO series, NME reports that she recently admitted the speech was more than just a tad daunting. The 33-year-old actress recently sat down for a new featurette titled Duty is the Death of Love and revealed of the big scene, “I knew that speech was going to be really important, and I spent a huge amount of time learning it. And for the first time in my whole Game of Thrones career, I got that word perfect.”

Though she obviously nailed the scene, she admits it wasn’t without some difficulty. She continued, “I’m being so brutally honest here – I was in hell learning that speech. This pretend language was literally eating me up. I couldn’t do it.”

So how did the Last Christmas star get past it? She simply let Khaleesi take over. She explained, “I woke up in the morning, went on, and it all came out. I was probably fighting not what I was fighting, but what Dany was doing.”

Luckily for Emilia (and unluckily for the city of King's Landing), Dany was a pretty take-charge kind of queen.