Emilia Clarke gives us a glimpse behind that epic 'Game of Thrones' battle episode

"What you saw was really what it was like shooting it."
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Johnny Lieu
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Emilia Clarke gives us a glimpse behind that epic 'Game of Thrones' battle episode
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Emilia Clarke, actual royalty, dropped into Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about "The Long Night," the epic third episode of Game Of Thrones' eighth season.

It took 55 nights to film the extraordinary episode, and the cast and crew would stay up all night to shoot its long, fiery scenes.

"What you saw was really what it was like shooting it," Clarke told of the Battle of Winterfell episode. "You saw blood and mud, and angry, screaming people."

Clarke also talked through how her scenes on the dragon came together, and how co-star Kit Harington learnt to ride them -- although with much more pain.

"I feel weird about it, I'm not going to lie," she said. "He was all like, you think you're good at this, let me be the professional ... he was kind of arrogant about it.

"That was then I learnt that men riding dragons is like a whole other thing, [rather] than a lady who rides a dragon. It's a little more uncomfortable for them."

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Mashable Australia's Web Culture Reporter.Reach out to me on Twitter at @Johnny_Lieu or via email at jlieu [at] mashable.com


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