Game of Thrones unaired pilot: Who is Tamzin Merchant? Who.

In the original pilot, the love scene unfolded between Jason Momoa’s Drogo and Tamzin Merchant’s Daenerys. (Merchant was later replaced by Emilia Clarke in reshoots.) Martin recalled.

GAME OF THRONES’ unaired pilot has revealed just how much the series was changed before making it to screens. Now with season 8 about to air, fans are wondering who the original actress cast to play Daenerys Targaryen, before Emilia Clarke, in the first script was. So who is Tamzin Merchant?

Tamzin Merchant is carving out a good career for herself, and her next starring role could be just around the corner. Emilia Clarke might have landed one of the most iconic TV roles of all time with Daenerys Targaryen, but things could have been very different. Game of Thrones season 7 arrives in Summer 2017. Watch the teaser trailer below.

Game of Thrones' casting. Pride and Prejudice's Jennifer Ehle and The Tudors' Tamzin Merchant were set to play Catelyn and Daenerys, but the pair were recast after starring in the GoT pilot.

Fellow English actress Tamzin Merchant was initially cast to play the Mother of Dragons for the HBO show that’s based on the A Song of Ice and Fire books by George R.R. Martin. Merchant solely ended up playing the role of Daenerys in Game of Thrones’ unaired pilot before she was recast, paving the way for Clarke to flourish as Daenerys.

The unaired “Game of Thrones” is notorious for many, many reasons, and a new book about the making of the now-ended HBO series has added another one to the list: a horse’s penis. During the shooting of the original pilot of David Benioff and Dan Weiss’ TV adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s beloved fantasy novels, Martin — who was on location in Morocco for the scenes at Daenerys.

Game of Thrones show-runners Dan Weiss and David Benioff have been pretty forthright in the past when it comes to the original pilot for their smash-hit HBO show. The consensus? It was not good.

Daenerys Targaryen is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, as well as the television adaptation, Game of Thrones, in which she is portrayed by English actress Emilia Clarke.In the novels, she is a prominent point of view character. She is one of the most popular characters in the series, and The New York Times cites her as one of the author's.

One of the bigger names was Tamzin Merchant, who had stared alongside Keira Knightley in the 2005 retelling of Pride and Prejudice and portrayed Catherine Howard in Game of Thrones-adjacent bodice.

Tamzin Merchant (Daenerys Targaryen) HBO.. Despite how interesting it would be to see it, there's little chance we'll ever get to see HBO's original pilot for Game Of Thrones, since it was.

The original pilot was directed by Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) and featured actors like Tamzin Merchant as Daenerys Targaryen, who was replaced by Emilia Clarke and Jennifer Ehle as Catelyn Stark.

Tamzin Merchant on The Tudors, Emilia Clarke on Game of Thrones. Left, Courtesy of Showtime; right, courtesy of HBO. Nearly a decade later, Martin was offered another chance to show his bearded.