“They’re like, ‘Emilia, climb those stairs, get on that huge thing, we’ll harness you in, and then you’ll go crazy.’ And you’re like, ‘Hey, everybody! Now who’s shorty?!’”

“I’m 5-ft.-nothing, I’m a little girl,” she says. They’ve since grown to the size of a 747. The show’s first season ended with Daenerys’ hatching three baby dragons, each the size of a Pomeranian.

Behind the scenes it’s more toil than triumph, though. Clarke and I talk in her trailer before she heads to the soundstage, at the beginning of what is to be a long week inhabiting a now iconic character.