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ZENDAYA COLEMAN by Craig McDean | Vogue UK

“I went back and forth about how I would deliver that line. Missandei is going to die. She’s leaving the only man she’s ever loved and her best friend. She’s only been free for a short amount of her life and now it’s over. If that were me, I’d be begging for my life in a flood of tears. But Missandei had survived a lot of horror and brutality. The very first time we meet her, Daenerys tells her, “I’m going to take you to war. You may fall sick, you may go hungry, you may even die.’ And Missandei’s response is, ‘Valar morghulis,’ which means, 'All men must die.’ To which Dany says, 'But we are not men.’ So I really thought hard about how she would deliver that line, how she would be in her final moments. Yes, she would be afraid, but I didn’t want her to be crying. Not that being vulnerable would necessarily make her weak. But I wanted to feel her strength and her power and her agency in this moment. She’s normally quite calm and stoic. Her yelling is not really something we’ve seen before. I wanted to make the most of this moment and make sure that it meant something. In a way it was her own war cry, to her friend and her queen. It’s so funny because she’d told Grey Worm earlier, 'My people are peaceful.’ But in her last breath she’s like, 'Burn them all! Burn these fuckers to the ground.' — Nathalie Emmanuel for Elle (June 2019)

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