These Green Screen Photos Show Us How the Magic Behind the Screen Is Created

We can accept that dragons aren’t real, but we can’t accept that the Game of Thrones creators didn’t have an appropriate dragon stand-in! When Daenerys interacts with her beloved dragons, we expect the actress who plays her to have something suitable to play off of. But that’s far from what really happened.

You might wonder why they used anything at all, especially a green stick with a wad of fabric on the end. The reason for the weird prop is that they needed to give actress Emilia Clarke a place to look when she was acting, so it would look as if she were really looking at the dragon once they CGI’d it in. Smart!