- Warning: Spoilers ahead for HBO's "Game of Thrones."
- During the funeral on Sunday's episode, Daenerys Targaryen whispered something "indistinct" to Jorah Mormont's lifeless body.
- Director David Nutter told INSIDER the episode script specified this line would be "Dany's secret to Jorah," and even he doesn't know what actress Emilia Clarke decided to say.
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Sunday's episode of HBO's "Game of Thrones" opened with a massive funeral outside the walls of Winterfell, and a close-up shot of Daenerys Targaryen mourning her fallen friend and protector Jorah Mormont. She whispered something to his lifeless body in a private moment even the episode's director was kept in the dark about.
"As scripted, that was 'Dany's secret to Jorah,'" David Nutter said in an interview with INSIDER. "I never asked her what she said. That was her personal line, that whatever Dany said to Jorah, it was something she was imparting to him alone."
Read more: INSIDER's full interview with director David Nutter about 'Game of Thrones' season 8
Emilia Clarke (who plays Daenerys) was given the freedom to say what she wanted in that moment. If you watch the scene with closed captioning on, it says simply "whispers indistinctly."
She was working in that scene with Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont) himself. Glen was laying still on the funeral pyre, pretending to be a dead body. Entertainment Weekly's James Hibberd was on the set of "Game of Thrones" that day, and says Glen refused to divulge exactly what Clarke whispered to him.
"It's something entirely sincere and true to the moment and something that I'll never forget," Glen told EW.
Jorah was killed at the end of season eight's third episode, "The Long Night," when he took several swords to the chest defending Daenerys from a horde of wights. The night the episode aired, Clarke posted a selfie of her and Glen on Instagram which was taken on the set "Game of Thrones."
Her caption of lyrics from Tina Turner's iconic single "The Best" captured the love Clarke has for her fallen co-star, the only "Game of Thrones" actor who worked with Clarke for all eight seasons of the show.
For more behind-the-scenes details, read INSIDER's full interview with director David Nutter about the three episodes he helmed for this final season of "Game of Thrones."
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