For the scene, in which Clarke wound up eating several pounds of a horse heart made of gummy bears that the actress notes in DVD commentary tasted of bleach, director Dan Minahan told the actress that it was a “make or break moment” for Daenerys, where she’d either be accepted or not by the Dothraki. “There was no need to tell Emilia anything about how gruesome a task it was to choke down a horse heart,” Weiss notes. “Apparently, eating several pounds of gummy bear heart is almost as gruesome as the real thing.