GAME of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke has blasted the sexist double standards between her and Jon Snow’s costumes on set.
Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, the 33-year-old Daenerys Targaryen star revealed some of the downsides to wearing those incredible outfits.
5Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke blasts sexist double standards with skimpy Westeros costumesCredit: HBO
5Chilly much? – Emilia Clarke as Daenerys in Game of ThronesCredit: HBO
Throughout the eight seasons Daenerys’ clothes in particular went from minimal draping to heavy fur coats, as she travelled around Westeros.
And now the actress who played her, Emilia Clarke, has revealed that she felt there were sexist double standards in the way the characters were dressed.
Revealing how the actors coped with the costumes, she said: “The guys in the Night’s Watch, Jon Snow, are wearing a woolly mammoth all the time.
“When we were shooting things in a hot country when they had all of those things on, they had this pump that had its own little generator attached into the costumes.
5The actress felt the girls’ costumes and boys’ outfits were treated differentlyCredit: HBO
“They used it to pump cold water into these pipes and cool them all down so underneath they had this weird kind of cooling system.
“But girls weren’t allowed that. All I could get was the back of my wig to be lifted up.”
“It’s too hard, I’ve got a wig on, they don’t make cold packs you know, you put ice packs on yourself.”
Emilia is ready for more sex scenes in her new film, Above Suspicion.
5The Dragon Queen’s costumes changed a lot during the seriesCredit: HBO
The new movie also stars Jack Huston, as an FBI agent who is assigned to a small town in Kentucky.
Once there, he becomes involved with a local woman Susan Smith – played by Emilia – which causes scandal.
The film is based on a chilling true story of a newly married FBI agent who begins an affair with an impoverished woman who also happens to be his star informant.
Things end in disaster however, with the real-life scandal rocking the FBI and and leading to the first-ever conviction of an FBI agent for murder.
