Overview
- In a New York Times interview tied to promotion for her Peacock espionage series Ponies, Clarke said she is highly unlikely to appear with dragons again.
- She revealed she experienced a full mental breakdown when the series ended, describing it as the first time she truly stopped working.
- Clarke said she is now focused on gaining autonomy over her projects after feeling her early career moved too fast to reflect her own taste.
- Coverage contextualized her comments with her previously disclosed brain hemorrhages in 2011 and 2013 and subsequent surgeries, which she has said left lasting effects.
- She has previously voiced frustration with the show’s final season emphasizing large-scale spectacle over character-focused storytelling and said she understands fans’ disappointment.