TV and film can have an immeasurable impact on viewers.

Well, she was correct.

“The diagnosis was quick and ominous,” she explains in the essay.

Emilia Clarke

So she was just as surprised as the audience was when her story arcended the way it did.

She remembers thinking, “What, what, what, WHAT!?”

Clarke saw Daenerys as something as a feminist icon, as we all did.

Emilia Clarke

Emilia Clarke