"I mean, I got three words in before I just completely broke down. You just hold it in and you're holding it in and you're holding it in, and then I just burst into tears like a complete idiot.
"Then we cracked open the champagne, but it was then that I realised that alcohol is a depressant! So it was less a celebratory champagne, it was more kind of like, [pretends to sob] 'We did it! We got to the finish line!'"
Whilst Emilia has loved her time as the Mother of Dragons over the past eight years, she admits the long stint on the show was "the hardest shooting" she's ever done, and describe the end of the programme as a "metaphorical undoing of the bra".
She added to Harper's Bazaar: "I think ending it was just the mother of all releases. It was just the metaphorical undoing of the bra, except it's like a 10-year experience.
"[It's] the hardest shooting I'll ever do. It is so physical and you're in a corset! You've got the physical places of where you are, the weather is so extreme, and the hours are really long and there's so much tension in each character towards the end. There's so much tension in the room, and you're concentrating so hard. It's strenuous."
