Emilia Clarke covers the new issue of Glamour – not the special edition which has a “women of all sizes” theme – to promote the new season of Game of Thrones and her role in the film adaptation of Me Before You, which will be out in June. I’ve always found Emilia’s interviews sort of hit-and-miss. She’s funny and surprisingly down-to-earth, but she’s not really a soundbyte-celebrity, nor does she ever get up to a lot of gossipy activities. But I enjoyed this piece – you can read the full interview here. Some highlights:
Her mother worked a high-powered management job: “My dad worked away a lot, on tour, so my mom would pick my brother and me up from school. She’d be on a conference call on loudspeaker while hanging out with us, so I’d be listening and saying things like, “I don’t think John knows what he’s talking about.” I absorbed a business mentality. In terms of feminist issues, my mom never told me, like, “It’s gonna be tough. You’ve got boobs.” But I saw that there was no difference between my mom and my dad in terms of what they were capable of because of their genders.”
On the Game of Thrones audience being 40% female: “I love that so many women watch the show. If you look at Game of Thrones on face value—blood, tits, dragons, swearwords—you’re like, Oh, this must be for guys. But if you take that away, the story lines are fascinating depictions of the struggle for power. And women are in on that conversation!”
Whether she ever saw Jason Momoa naked: “Oh, I did. I saw his member, but it was covered in a pink fluffy sock. Showing it would make people feel bad. It’s too fabulous. No, I don’t know why. But I’d like to bring your memory back to Mr. Michiel Huisman [Khaleesi’s love interest in seasons four and five] and I copulating for the first time, which began with me saying, “Take off your clothes,” and then you got to see his perfect bottom.”
How she interprets Daenerys’ rape in Season 1: “Yes. Well, Daenerys and Khal Drogo’s arranged marriage, and the customary rape that followed—ask George R.R. Martin why he did that, ’cause that’s on him. But I thought the consensual sex she has thereafter was genius. She is physically saying, “You can’t rape me again. I’m going to be in control and show you something you’ve never seen before.” At the heart of it, we’re telling a story; you need that part of the story to feel empathy for Daenerys. You see her attacked by her brother, raped by her husband, and then going, “F–k all of you, I’m gonna rule the world.” That’s where we are now.
The role she really wanted: “[The robot] in Ex Machina. I mean, Alicia Vikander is brilliant in it. Looking at the performance now, I was so wrong for it.”
The pros and cons of dating Seth MacFarlane: “Well, a con is you have strangers giving you love-life advice like, “I’m a big fan of the show, and I’m not sure what you’re doing with that guy,” which I didn’t react well to. That happened in New York when Seth and I were together. This guy started to give me advice: “Can I get a selfie? And by the way…” Unh-unh, bro.
If she wrote Game of Thrones fan-fic: “I want to see Daenerys and her three dragons share the throne. Eat goat they’ve barbecued. And bring back all the pretty boys, get them to take their trousers down, and be like, “I’m now the queen of everything! I’d like close-ups of all the boys’ penises, please.”
That’s not bad fan-fic at all. Dany on the Iron Throne, with Tyrion at her side, and somehow she uses Melisandre’s magic to clone Prince Oberyn so he can just strut around naked all the time. How about that? And Dany can use Arya Stark as one of her most trusted assassins, and Ice Zombie Jon Snow will lead the army to fight the White Walkers in the north. BAM! I just wrote the next two seasons. As for seeing Jason Momoa naked… well… God, she’s lucky.
Photos courtesy of Glamour, Instagram.
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