There was an incentive for these two to find romance with each other, but I don’t think I was eager for it to go faster than it would naturally. Were you ever like, “Let’s get on with it!” or does that pacing have its own rewards?Ībsolutely. Their mutual respect for each other, their mutual understanding of each other, is where this romance blossomed.
But it’s developed in a very organic way.
The walls that they’ve put up in the past to survive in the world still haven’t come down yet, though their environment has changed dramatically. I mean, they definitely weren’t expecting it. This is the first time either Missandei or Grey Worm had an opportunity to freely choose a relationship with anybody, right? Game of Thrones Recap: The Fullness of Time This pain and love is also a part of the human experience that she’s getting to experience for the first time. In that environment, Missandei has been able to explore who she is as a person, as a human being. She definitely has encouraged them to embrace their freedom: freedom of thought and of feeling. In the environment in which they’ve found themselves with Daenerys, they’re able to explore this side of their humanity, which they haven’t before, coming from the backgrounds and history that they have. With that kind of pressure, it seems important that Missandei and Grey Worm could put it all aside, at least for a moment. Yeah, yeah! It’s lovely that in this crazy world, with all this death and destruction, we can talk about these two lovebirds.īoth of them are part of a war council for a conqueror who’s remaking entire societies. It’s not often you get to talk to a Game of Thrones cast member about romance. As she tells Vulture, anyone who focuses on Grey Worm’s castration instead of the duo’s emotional connection is missing the point. It’s a major personal breakthrough for two former slaves who, Emmanuel speculates, never before had the freedom to be intimate with another person like this. In Sunday’s episode, “Stormborn,” she also co-starred in one of the most romantic scenes in the show’s history, in which Missandei’s long-simmering romance with the tormented Unsullied commander Grey Worm (Jacob Anderson) finally reached a boiling point. As the translator and trusted adviser to Daenerys Targaryen, Missandei has been brought to life for four seasons and counting by actor Nathalie Emmanuel. To paraphrase another story about the psychological struggles of a sprawling cast of characters with tony English accents: Missandei is just a girl, standing in front of a eunuch super-soldier, asking him to love her.
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