Emilia Clarke reveals she broke a rib during sex scenes for Ponies

Emilia Clarke reveals she broke a rib during sex scenes for Ponies
Source: Daily Mail Online

Emilia Clarke has revealed she suffered a broken rib while filming wild sex scenes for her racy new spy thriller Ponies.

The Game Of Thrones star, 39, has described the embarrassing blunder in a new interview about the Cold War-era drama.

Ponies is a spy thriller set in 1970s Cold War about Bea (played by Emilia) and Twila (played by Haley Lu Richardson) investigating their husbands' death as the pair work as CIA operatives together.

Emilia told TheWrap that she was filming a bonking marathon with three different men when she suffered the injury.

She said: 'Just keep bringing it - I'm going to sit on this thing, you're going to bring them in, we're going to pretend to have sex. I broke a rib that day.'

Her co-star Haley Lu, 30, confirmed the story in the joint interview, adding: 'She really did. She's such a tiny little sensitive body, [it] meant she broke a rib.'

The awkward moment meant Emilia had to tell her doctor how she sustained the injury.

Her appearance comes after she revealed she suffered a 'full mental breakdown' when Game Of Thrones finished - and admitted she's now done with the fantasy genre.

The actress, who played Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series, spoke about the hit show ending after it being such a huge part of her life for nearly a decade.

She said: 'It was the first time in my professional life that I stopped. I had a full mental breakdown. It was almost as if the timing of the pandemic was bang on.'

The show aired from 2011 to 2019 and also starred the likes of Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and Kit Harington.

While speaking with The New York Times, Emilia said that it was only after the show ended that she took the time 'to realise that I could try and get some autonomy over my choices, my work'.

'So much of my career didn't reflect my taste, I just sort of shot out of a cannon,' she added.

Emilia began playing the role when she was only 22 and it was only her third acting job, meaning she felt she 'never had time to stop and consider the meaning of it'.

Emilia revealed that she was filming a bonking marathon with three different men when she suffered the injury.

She also shared that she is now done with the fantasy genre, saying: 'You're highly unlikely to see me get on a dragon, or even in the same frame as a dragon, ever again.'

Last June, Emilia told The Big Issue she feared being fired from the hit show after she suffered brain haemorrhages.

The star suffered bleeds on her brain in 2011 and 2013, which she said left her 'altered on a dramatic level'.

She first had a haemorrhage after the first season of Game Of Thrones finished filming, and lost her ability to speak as she nearly slipped into a coma.

The second one left her in need of surgery after scans showed it had doubled in size, and Emilia previously detailed that she is in a 'really small minority' of people who have survived and been left with 'no repercussions'.

She told the magazine: 'When you have a brain injury, it alters your sense of self on such a dramatic level. All of the insecurities you have going into the workplace quadruple overnight.
'The first fear we all had was, "Oh my God, am I going to get fired? Am I going to get fired because they think I'm not capable of completing the job?"'

Emilia had surgery to restore blood flow, as well as taking medication to relieve the pain.