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Contact lenses are hit or miss.
Maisie Williams wore painful contacts to play blind Arya Stark/No One in Braavos at the end of Season 5 and the start of Season 6. Williams told the New York Times, "For a lot of the close-ups, I had contact lenses that were opaque. So, I couldn’t see anything anyway. For the fight scenes, I had contact lenses I could see through [for safety reasons]."
Daenerys Targaryen has purple eyes in the books, but David Benioff said that, when they tried filming Emilia Clarke with colored contacts, it lessened the performance. Thus, they abandoned the lenses.
Maisie Williams wore painful contacts to play blind Arya Stark/No One in Braavos at the end of Season 5 and the start of Season 6. Williams told the New York Times, "For a lot of the close-ups, I had contact lenses that were opaque. So, I couldn’t see anything anyway. For the fight scenes, I had contact lenses I could see through [for safety reasons]."
Daenerys Targaryen has purple eyes in the books, but David Benioff said that, when they tried filming Emilia Clarke with colored contacts, it lessened the performance. Thus, they abandoned the lenses.