Emilia Clarke’s Health Scare
Given Emilia Clarke’s empowering on-screen performance as Daenerys, it’s hard to believe that the actress was dealing with a life-threatening health problem during the early seasons. She revealed in a 2019 New Yorker article that after filming season one she had a brain aneurysm, the effects of which at one point caused her to forget her own name, and that she needed another brain surgery after season three.