On a plane, Emilia Clarke imagined she was a butterfly to reach her dying father. Then one was waiting in the house.

On a plane, Emilia Clarke imagined she was a butterfly to reach her dying father. Then one was waiting in the house.

In July 2016, Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke was in Kentucky shooting a small independent film when she got a call saying her father was going into an operation he might not survive. She spoke to him on the phone. He came through it. Then a second call told her to come home, and she arrived to find him in a coma. She sat with him for three days before the production said it could not keep filming without her, and her mother told her to go ba…