Emilia Clarke recited her Dothraki dialogue when going through her brain aneurysm.
The 32-year-old actress recently revealed that she had to undergo surgery in 2011 and 2013 and has now admitted she "genuinely knew" at the time she was experiencing a major health scare so did everything she could to keep her brain active, including testing her knowledge of the fictional language she uses in Game of Thrones.
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She told talk show host Stephen Colbert: "The easy way of describing it is that it's the worst headache that a human could possibly manage to experience. It was pretty intense.
"I genuinely knew I was being brain damaged. I don't know how.