Emilia Clarke was tired of nudity after 'Thrones' so she passed on 'Fifty Shades of Grey'

"Game of Thrones" star Emilia has done a few nude scenes over the course of the show's eight-year run  – at least enough to make her worry about typecasting to the point where she turned down a major movie role.

Appearing in the Hollywood Reporter as part of the magazine's dramatic actress roundtable, Clarke revealed that she passed on 2015's "Fifty Shades of Grey" because she didn't want to become known as an actress primarily known for being naked on screen.

"Well, (director Sam Taylor-Johnson) is a magician," Clarke said. "I love her, and I thought her vision was beautiful. But the last time that I was naked on camera on ("Game of Thrones") was a long time ago, and yet it is the only question that I ever get asked because I am a woman.

"And it's annoying as hell and I'm sick and tired of it because I did it for the character," she said, referring to Daenerys Targaryen, who memorably emerged unburned (but unclothed) from two major fires but had relatively few sex scenes.  "I didn't do it so some guy could check out my (breasts), for God's sake."

Dakota Johnson was eventually cast as Anastasia Steele in the "Fifty Shades" trilogy, alongside Jamie Dornan, who played Christian Grey.

"I was like, 'I can't,'" Clarke continued. "I did a minimal amount and I'm pigeonholed for life, so me saying yes to that, where the entire thing is about sensuality and sex and being naked and all of that stuff, I was just like, 'No way am I going to voluntarily walk into that situation and then never be able to look someone in the eye and be like, 'No, you can't keep asking me this question.' "

Following the "Thrones" series finale on May 19, Clarke paid tribute to her Daenerys Targaryen character on Instagram and thanked fans. 

"Finding the words to write this post has left me overwhelmed with how much I want to say but how small words feel in comparison to what this show and Dany have meant to me," she wrote. "The mother of dragons chapter has taken up the whole of my adult life.

"This woman has taken up the whole of my heart. I’ve sweated in the blaze of dragon fire, shed many tears at those who left our family early, and wrung my brain dry trying to do Khaleesi and the masterful words, actions (and names) I was given, justice. 

Game of Thrones has shaped me as a woman, as an actor and as a human being. I just wish my darling dad was here now to see how far we’ve flown."

To the "dear, kind, magical fans," she wrote, "I owe you so much thanks, for your steady gaze at what we’ve made and what I’ve done with a character that was already in the hearts of many before I slipped on the platinum wig of dreams."

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