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at you.”
    ‘These two little white women were like, “Holy shit.”
    People were coming out of their doors and wondering what was going on. It really sealed the deal. And it got me Conan. It’s a great way to start an audition. My heart was racing, and I’m sure theirs were, too.’
    He was clearly excited about the part, adding, ‘I read the book. I had two days and I was hooked. Right after the audition, I read the whole thing, and it’s so great, the way you invest in these characters. You think, in the first few episodes, my character’s just this intimidating badass, but you slowly watch him fall in love and see how frail he is compared to this stoic; you compare him to the other characters, who are meant to be the good guys, and you think they’re totally the opposite. There’s such richness to these characters.’
    When he attended a screening of the first episode with his wife, he warned her that she wouldn’t like what she saw. The whole episode paints Drogo as a grunting man beast and a warrior who watches with glee other people suffering, and he barely carries a thought as he roughly beds his new wife on their wedding day.
    ‘I didn’t want my wife to see  Game of Thrones  and she ended up becoming obsessed,’ he told  Starpulse . ‘She was dreaming about it, she was so obsessed. We didn’t go to the premiere. I was like, “I don’t do anything but do [have sex with] Emilia Clarke for the first two episodes. I don’t even speak. We don’t need to go.”’
    It shouldn’t have just been his wife that he was concerned about – audiences were turned off by his performance in the debut episode. He was too rough and ready, they said, with many mocking his ‘guy-liner’ look.
    However, as the series went on, more and more became enraptured by Momoa, as Drogo evolved from the one-note warrior to a man in love. His passing became one of the moving deaths in the series, and fans took to Twitter to mourn his death. Luckily for them, he came back for the end of series two in a cameo appearance, and no one was more pleased than his screen wife, Emilia Clarke, who dubs him her ‘big brother’.
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    EMILIA CLARKE
    Born in 1987, Emilia Clarke is a young actress best known for her career-making role as Daenerys Targaryen.
    Alongside Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys is George R. R. Martin’s favourite creation from the books, and it’s not hard to see why. Her character’s transformation as the series develops is a startling one, and it required an actress capable of excelling as both a shy girl and later a fierce and loyal leader. When she is first introduced in the series, Daenerys is meek and completely dependent on her brother, Viserys.
    He treats his sister as a toy, something malleable for him to manipulate at will and which he can subject to his mood swings, and his cruel and violent streak. And while Daenerys would burn with the same obsession as her brother – the belief that the Iron Throne was their denied birthright – it was Viserys who held this belief from the start.
    Daenerys is the only daughter of King Aerys II – the Mad King – and was conceived shortly before Robert’s Rebellion that ended her father’s reign on the Iron Throne.
    Her father died before her birth, with her mother dying just after labour, and she was born at her family’s ancestral seat, Dragonstone. She and her brother were smuggled from Dragonstone garrison before they could be turned over to Robert’s soldiers, and were instead taken to the Free City of Braavos. They were eventually forced out of their home, and took to wandering the nine Free Cities in a bid to find support for Viserys’ attempt to wrestle back the throne.
    However, Viserys’ desperation amuses many, and he is dubbed The Beggar King. That is, until they find what they want in Pentos, with a powerful Magister named Illyrio Mopatis helping them to reclaim their royal honour. Viserys hatches a plan with Illyrio to marry Daenerys to Khal