The final season of Game of Thrones is still being discussed by fans – and critics – but now HBO has cleared up one major mystery.
Daenerys Targaryen was killed by her nephew and lover Jon Snow in the final episode and was then carried away by Drogon, her last remaining Dragon.
Fan theories on the internet suggested that the grieving Drogon ate his mother after he carried her dead body over the sea to Volantis.
Now, showrunner David Benioff has confirmed that this would not be possible.
Benioff, who co-created the HBO show with D.B. Weiss, shut down the grizzly fan theory in the commentary track for a making-of documentary on the finale.
After Emilia Clarke, who played the Mother of the Dragons on the show, said that fans told her that dragons eat their masters, according to Entertainment Weekly, Benioff responded: "Drogon's not going to eat you.
"He's not a cat. Did you see how gently he was nudging you?"
The interview comes after Clarke revealed she felt uncomfortable and unsure of herself while filming nude scenes on the fantasy show.
The star also hinted she was unaware that she would be naked while shooting until after signing up for the HBO drama.
Clarke was 23 years old when she began playing Daenerys and the role saw her feature in numerous sexually explicit scenes.
Speaking on actor Dax Shepard’s podcast Armchair Expert this month, she agreed filming them was often "terrifying."
Clarke, now 33, told the host: “I took the job [on Game Of Thrones] and then they sent me the scripts and I was reading them, and I was like, ‘Oh, there’s the catch!’
“But I’d come fresh from drama school and I approached it as a job: if it’s in the script then it’s clearly needed. This is what this is and I’m going to make sense of it and that’s what I’m going to do and everything’s going to be cool.
“I’ve never been on a film set like this before. I’d been on a film set twice before then, and I’m now on a film set completely naked with all of these people, and I don’t know what I’m meant to do, and I don’t know what’s expected of me, and I don’t know what you want, and I don’t know what I want."
“Regardless of there being nudity or not, I would have spent that first season thinking I’m not worthy of requiring anything. I’m not worthy of needing anything at all.”
