Emilia Clarke turned down Fifty Shades of Grey to avoid being pigeonholed for her Game of Thrones nudity

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"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," Clarke says in a Hollywood Reporter actress roundtable. "And it’s annoying as hell and I’m sick and tired of it because I did it for the character — I didn’t do it so some guy could check out my t*ts, for God’s sake." She says of turning down the Anastasia Steele role that went to Dakota Johnson: “I was like, ‘I can’t.’ 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… 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.'”