Emilia Clarke brought back a Game of Thrones mystery when she addressed the infamous coffee cup mystery from the final season and this time, Clarke is laying blame at one of the show's co-creators and executive producers!
The coffee cup mystery is about how there was a modern store-bought coffee cup visible on the table next to Clarke's character, Daenerys Targaryen, in the Season 8 episode, "The Last of the Starks." Once an eagle-eyed fan spotted it, it became a whole "to-do" and HBO used CGI to delete the cup from the episode. But then the blame game set in!
Back in October 2019, Clarke blamed Conleth Hill, who played Lord Varys on the series, telling Jimmy Fallon, "Here's the truth. We had like a party before the Emmys recently, and Conleth, kay? He plays Varys. He's sitting next to me in that scene. He pulls me aside and he's like, 'Emilia, I've got to tell you something. I've got to tell you something, love. The coffee cup was mine.' It was his. It was Conleth's coffee cup. He said so."
However, other actors on the show, including Sansa Stark actor, Sophie Turner, suggested that it was Clarke's cup of coffee.
This time, though, on "Texts With theSkimm," when a fan asked Clarke what her favorite morning drink was, Clarke decided on her own to throw one of the show's co-creators under the bus, "It's not Starbucks - spoiler. I'm going to say it again for the record: was not mine. Looking at you Dan Weiss."
Interestingly, Weiss did not cop to it being his in the James Hibberd's book about Game of Thrones, Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon, saying instead of the incident:
I'd seen that shot one thousand times, and we're always looking at their faces or how the shot sat with the shots on either side of it.I felt like we were the participants in a psychology experiment, like where you don't see the gorillas running around in the background because you're counting the basketballs. Every production that's ever existed had things like this. You can see a crew member in Braveheart; there's an actor wearing a wristwatch in Spartacus. But now people can rewind things and everybody is talking to each other in real time. So one person saw the coffee cup, rewound it, and then everybody did.