Overview
- Emilia Clarke told Seth Meyers she felt hurt and angry after hearing that David J. Peterson allegedly said she was bad at learning Dothraki.
- Peterson told Entertainment Weekly he never criticized her pronunciation and said she misunderstood his comments.
- Peterson explained that grammatical and pronunciation errors were deliberately built into Daenerys’s lines to show the character learning the language.
- He praised Clarke’s High Valyrian delivery and described her overall work on the show as good, while reports note it is unclear which earlier article Clarke referenced, possibly a years‑old Rolling Stone interview.
- Separately, Clarke told the New York Times she will likely avoid dragon‑related imagery going forward and she now leads the new series Ponies, debuting Jan. 15 on Peacock and Jan. 16 on Sky Atlantic/WOW in Germany.