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Behind the Scenes: What Green Screens and CGI Can Really Do

Game of Thrones

Sure, we didn’t really expect that it was a real dragon that she was petting. But a green stick with some fabric on the end? We didn’t expect that either. Considering how dragons are huge beasts, you would think they would use something more intimidating. This way must make Emilia Clarke’s job easy…or harder?

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Targaryen’s three dragons are identifiable by the color of their scales; Drogon is red, Rhaegal is green, and Viserion is yellow/gold. So they kind of resemble the three dragons in the classic Atari 2600 game, “Adventure.”
Oh, and by the way, after filming her final scenes, Emilia Clarke got a tattoo of three dragons on her wrist. I guess she needed to mark their place in her heart and also her body.