During Season 5 of Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen delivered a Valyrian monologue that issued a Meereenese nobleman's execution. Normally, any sort of dialogue in Valyrian or Dothraki would take some time to rehearse, with input and guidance from the show's resident linguist, David Peterson.

However, having spent so much time learning to correctly speak Valyrian and Dothraki during her time on the show, Clarke was so familiar with the languages that she was able to improvise the monologue herself after only 10 minutes of preparation. Speaking with James Hibberd for his behind-the-scenes, oral history book, Fire Cannot Kill A Dragon, which details the creative process behind Game of Thrones' eight seasons, series director Jeremy Podeswa recalled the moment Clarke returned to set, ready to deliver her improvised Valyrian execution orders.

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According to Podeswa, the initial idea to have Daenerys deliver the orders in Valyrian came from Game of Thrones' showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss: "Then [showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] came down – they were watching the scene being shot – and they said, 'Wouldn't it be great if the scene was in Valyrian?'" Podeswa said. "There's usually a lot of preparation for that sort of thing and so much consideration that goes into it and [Emilia] had quite a big monologue before she sets the guy on fire."

"I went over to Emilia and I was like, 'I know this is a really big ask, but do you think you could figure out a way to do this in Valyrian?' She said, 'Yeah, sure, I think I can do this.' And I'm all, "Really?" Then she went off and cobbled together things that [Daenerys] had said in the past that made sense. She came back in 10 minutes and had this whole monologue down. Every single take, every intonation, and the way she phrased everything, you completely understood what she was meant to be saying. Then the subtitles all seemed authentic to what she was doing. She knew the language well enough at that point to make it all work. It wasn't tracking perfectly in Valyrian, but no fan ever noticed it. She did an amazing job."

Game of Thrones stars Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and Kit Harington. All eight seasons are available to stream on HBO Max.

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Source: IndieWirey