Emilia Clarke Calls Filming 'Game of Thrones' After Brain Surgery 'Crazy Intense'

Emilia Clarke is opening up about what filming was like for her after suffering her brain hemorrhage.

The 33-year-old actress spoke to James Hibberd for his Game of Thrones book titled “Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon” about what she was going through at the time.

“It was crazy intense,” Emilia admitted. “We are in the desert in a quarry in like 90-degree heat, and I had the consistent fear that I was going to have another brain hemorrhage.”

She recalled that she “spent a lot time just being like: ‘Am I gonna die? Is that gonna happen on set? Because that would be really inconvenient.’ And with any kind of brain injury, it leaves you with a fatigue that’s indescribable. I was trying so hard to keep it under wraps.”

She was treated to an air-conditioned car to, from and during filming to aid the condition.

“They didn’t want to work me too hard. I was like: ‘Don’t think I’m a failure; don’t think I can’t do the job that I’ve been hired to do. Please don’t think I’m going to f*** up at any moment,’” she continued. “I had the Willy Wonka golden ticket. I wasn’t about to hand that in.”

Emilia first opened up about her condition in March of last year, explaining to fans that she had survived a SAH, a subarachnoid hemorrhage which is a life threatening type of stroke, before opening up about the surgery that saved her.

After penning her personal essay about her health battle, Emilia shared a thank you to her fans for their support. See what she wrote here…