Emilia Clarke danced the "funky chicken" at her 'Game Of Thrones' audition

Speaking to the Sunday Times Culture magazine, Emilia said: "I abstained from sugar for the whole three weeks before my final audition, to look my best. I walked into an auditorium filled with every single ex ecutive in HBO, and they gave me a Coke - so I began bouncing off the walls. I finished the scene, looked out to this bank of empty faces and said, in the midst of a pin-dropping silence, 'Is there anything else that I can do?' And ('Game Of Thrones' creator) David Benioff, in what I later found out was a joke, said, 'You can do a dance...'

"So I did the funky chicken. And then the robot. Then fell over on the way up the stairs. The antithesis of Daenerys. David and Dan (Weiss, co-creator of 'Game of Thrones') were showing me off for this important series they were asking loads of money for, then I go and do the bloody robot..da-dah!"