Emilia Clarke Fans Defend 'Game Of Thrones' Star After Tweet About Her Looks
A witless dig at Emilia Clarke’s looks spurred fans to rush to her defense.
The “Game of Thrones” star posted a photo on Instagram last week of her smiling face next to a mug that read, “You’re doing fucking great.”
Clarke wrote that it was a gift from her mom, adding, “it was important to share this newfound wisdom.” But the photo has not been received the way the actor intended by folks online.
“Lmao wow Daenerys Targaryen didn’t just hit the wall,” tweeted Jon Miller, a self-described gamer with nearly 100,000 followers, “she flew into it full speed on a dragon.”
Clarke was 24 when “Game of Thrones” premiered on HBO in 2011. She had starred in only one episode of television and small films before the role of Daenerys made her famous and also opened her up to public criticism.
She revealed in a 2019 episode of Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast that she would cry before filming her sex scenes with Jason Momoa, as the whole process was entirely new to the young actor.
She most harrowingly survived a brain aneurysm rupture within weeks of wrapping the first season of the hit HBO show, only to endure another “excruciating” rupture after the third season, Clarke revealed in a deeply personal 2019 essay for The New Yorker.
“In my worst moments, I wanted to pull the plug,” she wrote. “I asked the medical staff to let me die.”
Fans have defended her from unwarranted criticism ever since, regardless of their opinions on her character arc in “Thrones” or its polarizing finale. That was very apparent in the flurry of tweets from Clarke’s supportive fanbase.
I want to be so clear about something. I would be just as sickened & angry about those awful comments directed at Emilia Clarke even if we didn’t know ANYTHING about her medical history. I mean knowing makes it worse FOR SURE but y’all didn’t learn a fucking thing after Chadwick.
— ✨Natacia will be at SWCL✨ (@nknapper) February 28, 2023
This is a normal looking woman?? Do people not know anymore how people outside of edited social media posts look like????????? https://t.co/yJZ29bTQxy
— 🔸Yuuya🔸 (@veilnebuula) February 27, 2023
man learns for the very first time what 36 year old women with no botox look like https://t.co/S9ntrJ9c9m
— latke (@latkedelrey) February 28, 2023
I actually feel for women lol, they cant dress down and take random pics coz ppl like u will be analysing their entire existence https://t.co/TIVPQuIEGy
— respawnedtargaryen (@respawnedtarga1) February 28, 2023
What the hell did Emilia Clarke do to get a bunch of basement dwellers to body shame her? She seems nice and isn't even remotely ugly but even if she still wouldn't be cool to mock her appearance like this. 🤷
— Sigma Enby (EEAAO Sweep) ⚑👹📼🎥 (@suspiraserhead) March 2, 2023
hitting a wall apparently means your eyes wrinkle a little when u smile now https://t.co/EYnBhl952u
— amanda ☆〜(ゝ。∂) (@parfaitangeI) March 1, 2023
I shall not tolerate any Emilia Clarke slander on my TL. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. pic.twitter.com/4JVCZXLqBM
— Mike Avila (@mikeavila) February 27, 2023