- This is so [beeps] weird.
[electricity buzzing]
This is really freaky.
I just need to say this out loud again.
I'm incredibly freaked out.
Please, ask me a question.
- [Interviewer] Is your full name
Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke?
- Yes, well done.
That was impressive.
- [Interviewer] Thank you.
Were you born on October 23rd?
- Yes.
- [Interviewer] Are you about to take a lie detector test?
- Yes.
- [Interviewer] How are we looking?
- [Technician] We're calibrated.
- [Interviewer] Great.
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How you feeling?
You nervous?
- Yeah, there's a lot of people in this room
and everyone's very quiet.
- [Interviewer] Let's talk about your life.
Were you raised in Oxfordshire, England?
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Would you say you're the most
talented actor to come out of Oxfordshire?
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] More talented than this person?
- Oh, well that's hard.
He's definitely more intelligent than I am.
- [Interviewer] So, you're saying he's smarter
than you, but not a better actor?
- No, I think it's probably safe to say
he's a better actor as well, yeah.
Excellent.
- [Interviewer] Do you think you would've
gotten into Oxford if you had applied?
- No.
[laughs]
I would love to have.
In another life I would've gone to Oxford,
but I decided to become an actor
and do lie detector tests on camera instead.
Yeah, livin' my dream.
- [Interviewer] Do you consider yourself
to be very British?
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Is there any truth to the stereotype
that British people have bad teeth?
- Yeah, but I'm the exception.
I have great teeth!
It's an absolute winning thing that I have.
And it's all natural so I'm very lucky,
and I'm very bucking the trend
of British people with bad teeth.
But yeah, I mean overall it is because we care less.
Honestly.
That's why.
- [Technician] It's true.
- Yeah, it's true.
- [Interviewer] What do you think of my British accent?
I'm chuffed to bits then governor.
- Terrible.
It's awful.
That really sounds exactly like an American accent.
[laughs]
- [Interviewer] Well, I have work on it.
- You do, you do, yeah.
- [Interviewer] So, you've met this person, right?
- Yes, I did.
I did I met HRH.
- [Interviewer] Did you ask him to bend the knee?
- Yeah, no I think I was asked to bend the knee.
[laughs]
You have to do the whole thing.
You have to, you can't turn your back.
You have to curtsy.
You have to say, their like he has his title,
His Royal Highness or something along those lines.
And I struggled with that.
But I should've.
I don't think he's ever watched my show.
Disappointing.
- [Interviewer] You played the piano,
the flute, and the guitar?
- I used to play the flute.
The guitar, I can play really badly.
Just lack of patience, I think.
If you gave me a guitar now,
I wouldn't be able to play it.
And then, the piano not really, no.
So, if I put that on my CV that
was when I was, you know, trying to get a job.
- [Interviewer] Would you ever do a flute duet
with this person?
- Oh yeah, I knew you were gonna give me my girl.
Lizzo, hells yes!
Hells to the yes!
I would, I love her so much
that I saw her at Glastonbury and lost my shit.
Just went completely mental for her,
and then, she whips out a flute.
It's the most unexpected instrument for,
yeah, for a pop star to bring out.
- [Interviewer] She's pretty cool.
- She's amazing.
- [Interviewer] A lot of fans say that your eyebrows
have their own life.
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Would you agree with that statement?
- Yeah, and to the point where I hate it.
I'll watch myself back in a movie.
Well, on the show I can kind of keep them in check
'cause Khaleesi never really got too hepped up about much.
But in life I find it deeply infuriating.
I was once, I was at a doctor's office
and I was trying to change the appointment
and this woman is being very serious,
like you're being right now,
and really trying to keep a straight face,
and she just couldn't keep herself together
she just kept laughing.
And I was like what is funny about me
trying to change my two o'clock appointment
to a four o'clock?
And she's like it's your eyebrows
I can't look at them without laughing.
- [Interviewer] Can you do the wave with your eyebrows?
- Is that it?
No, that was terrible.
- [Interviewer] I think you nailed it.
- Yeah?
Yeah, they...
- [Interviewer] Would you say that the eyebrows
are the window to your soul?
- Yeah.
Maybe.
[laughs]
- [Interviewer] So, is it true that you speak
English and Italian?
- I speak a pitiful amount of Italian,
but a little bit.
- [Interviewer] Is your Italian better than your Dothraki?
- Well, yeah, probably, yeah.
Some Dothraki I would make up.
Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Can you tell me what you really
feel about me in Dothraki?
- No, 'cause I don't remember the lines.
They never gave us the language.
They'd only ever give me what to say.
As in what I was specifically saying in that scene.
So, if I were to say anything to anyone
in Dothraki it's just remembering a line from the show.
- [Interviewer] So, you only know the script?
- Yeah, zhey qoy Qoyi is blood of my blood.
And that's all I remember folks from eight years
of shooting a show in Dothraki.
- [Interviewer] Is that true?
- She is telling the truth.
- Yeah.
[laughs]
- [Interviewer] So, in the movie "Last Christmas"
you work in a Christmas shop?
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Do you think it's a little foolish
to have a year-round Christmas shop?
- Yeah, yeah, definitely.
You know, in department stores you've got
the Christmas section, just kind of creeps me out.
Who's doing that?
I get the kind of getting something in a January sale,
but doing it in April it just...
Why?
It doesn't make any sense.
- [Interviewer] You're also dressed as an elf in the movie.
- Yes, it's my uniform working in the Christmas shop.
- [Interviewer] Would you say you're a more
believable elf than this person?
[laughs]
- Yep.
I kind of went pretty method and I took
as much inspiration from him as possible though.
Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Did she really take inspiration
from Will Ferrell?
- That's questionable.
[laughs]
- Dammit.
Well, I tried.
- [Interviewer] Let's move on to your career.
After drama school you played Snow White for kids' parties?
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Interviewer] Was that a pleasant experience?
- Oh, it was terrible.
It was once.
So, I was part of a catering company
'cause then when you're working in catering
you can kind of work around your,
at that time nonexistent auditions,
and this was for a really kind of
bougie business Christmas party.
So, all the adults would go and have a Christmas party
and then they had all of their kids,
all of their very rich, very spoiled kids
was like a play land was filled with
all of these Disney characters.
And I played Snow White in that.
I was Snow White.
It was just terrible, yeah.
- [Interviewer] Would you say you were
the fairest of them all?
- On that particular day, probably, yeah.
- [Interviewer] Did that gig appear on your resume
when you auditioned for "Game of Thrones"?
- No, I absolutely didn't.
Not at all, yeah.
I catered a gig, yeah, at a kid's party as Snow White.
I didn't think it was conducive to my next job.
To my first job.
- [Interviewer] So, you weren't proud of that?
- No, no.
- [Interviewer] You starred in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Correct?
- Yes.
- [Interviewer] Have you seen all of the Star Wars films?
- No.
- [Interviewer] Do you remember the name of the second
Star Wars movie from the original trilogy?
[laughs]
- Christ.
Okay, is that "The Return of the Jedi"?
No, that's the one about the Sith.
I don't know.
No, I can't.
- [Interviewer] It's "The Empire Strikes Back".
- The Empire Strikes Back.
- [Interviewer] Let's redo that one.
Can you remember the second film from
the original franchise?
- The Empire Strikes Back.
- She's telling the truth.
- [Interviewer] Very good.
[laughs]
Would Darth Maul beat Jon Snow in a fight?
- Well, yeah, Jon Snow's got a sword that's it.
And his curly locks, I really don't think
they would've done much.
- [Interviewer] Do you recognize this woman?
- Yes, my girl Phoebe.
We love her.
- [Interviewer] Did you get along on the set of Solo.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Interviewer] Did she get you tickets
to her soldout "Fleabag" show?
- So, she got me tickets to the New York show.
'Cause I saw it originally when it was in Soho
when I was fangirling over her,
and then saw it in New York because I wanted
to see her and see it,
and so seeing it again in New York that was wonderful.
And then, when it was on in the West End,
I was like babe I'm not gonna ask that from you.
To go and see it a third time.
But yeah it was wonderful.
- [Interviewer] You didn't see it--
- Huh?
- [Interviewer] You didn't see it a third time?
- No, so I saw it in Soho back before Phoebe
was who Phoebe is now,
and then in New York,
but then not the West End one.
But a doctor asked me for tickets.
He was like, "I heard you know Phoebe Waller-Bridge
"could you get me tickets for her sold-out show?"
And I was like, "No, probably not."
- [Interviewer] Is it true that your mom decorated
your bedroom with your Solo character's merchandise?
- She one day, oh Christ...
So, she really likes the merchandise
with her daughter's face on it.
And one day she came to visit me on set in Star Wars,
and it was when we were doing the body scan for the toys.
And little do I know, I'm like where's my mum gone?
And she's off talking to the head of merchandise, no less,
and it's like can I just get some more stuff,
you know with her face.
Like what other stuff can I get with her face on it?
And so then I came back from working one day
and went into, it wasn't my room it was the spare room,
and it was just there's a blanket with my face on it,
there was seven or eight cushions,
an obscene amount of dolls.
Gross.
- [Interviewer] So, you loved it.
- Yeah, I'm lying.
- [Technician] She's lying.
[laughs]
- [Interviewer] So, "Last Christmas" was your first
time working with this director, Mr. Paul Feig.
- Yes, it was my first time.
What a dashing young man.
Don't check that.
- [Interviewer] Do you wish you would've
been cast in "Bridesmaids"?
- Yeah, hells yeah.
That's one of the greatest movies of all time.
It's so good.
Look at that lineup.
Hells yeah.
- [Interviewer] And which role would you have been?
- I mean, looking at it now maybe Rose's role.
That's that beautiful scene at the end
when she's in the car when she's like,
"No, it's really good that you look ugly
"when you're crying."
And she's like, "No, I don't."
[laughs]
But I--
- [Interviewer] So, you wouldn't have been one of the--
- Melissa.
Yeah.
- [Interviewer] I was thinking you would've
played a good roommate.
- Oh!
Yeah.
I mean I do like tattoos.
The brother is that who I would've played?
- [Interviewer] Either one of them.
- Either one of them.
'Cause I'm English?
Yeah, yeah.
I would've taken any role in that movie, to be fair.
- [Interviewer] How was it working with this gentleman?
- Wonderful, look at him.
He's so sweet.
- [Interviewer] He can't possibly be
that handsome in real life.
- No, he's like way more handsome in real life.
It's astonishing.
He's like carved out of marble, truly.
Extraordinary.
It's true.
- [Technician] She is telling the truth.
- Yeah, carved out of marble.
- [Interviewer] Why don't we talk more about
"Game of Thrones".
Your character Daenerys Targaryen was married
to Jason Momoa's character, Khal Drogo, right?
- Yeah, Khal Drogo, yeah.
- [Interviewer] Would you say you two are close friends?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I saw him very recently.
- [Interviewer] So, did you see his film "Aquaman"?
- I did.
I saw in a cinema.
I gave that man some money.
I went to the movies and I saw it.
- [Interviewer] Do you think Aquaman would have
had a chance for the Iron Throne?
- No, there's just not enough water.
Yeah.
- [Interviewer] That's a good point.
- Yeah, I think, yeah, yeah.
Khal Drogo would've 'cause he would've just
bulldozed everyone out the way.
Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Are you the mother of dragons?
- Yeah.
- She is telling the truth.
- [Interviewer] Did you have a favorite dragon?
- Well, I think Drogon.
Yeah, yeah, I did 'cause Drogon's kind of the
like he was my oldest boy.
He was, yeah, he was the first, really.
I think when the three of them came out
I think he came out first.
Just to get real detailed for you.
- [Interviewer] Do you know where Drogon went?
- Well, I like to think that he went to Hawaii.
I know there is a specific place where dragons go.
Now, I'm sounding like a crazy person.
In the books there's--
Everyone's was like yeah 'cause he's gone
to such and such a place.
So there, makes sense.
But otherwise, he's just roaming the seas crying.
[moans]
- [Interviewer] You think he's somewhere happy
flying with a corpse in his mouth.
- Yeah, 'cause it's his mama.
- [Interviewer] So, in the show you rode
a lot of CGI dragons.
- Yeah, more than I've done any other thing in my career.
- [Interviewer] So, does that mean that you're an expert
at riding mechanical bulls?
- Ah, yeah, yeah, I mean I don't know.
I'm strapped into that dragon.
I'm legitimately harnessed in,
and on the mechanical bulls you're not.
So -- - So, not an expert?
- No, but the dragon would malfunction sometimes
where I'd be getting a note
and then I'd just like
just do the whole thing and be like,
"Yeah, what was that?"
So, maybe because of those brief experiences
I might be very good at the bull riding.
- [Interviewer] I heard the skills translate, so.
- Yeah, yeah that makes sense.
- [Interviewer] In the last season of "Game of Thrones"
there's a Starbucks coffee cup in one of the shots.
- People think it's mine,
and it's very annoying.
- [Interviewer] Was that an advertising play?
- No!
Do you think we needed an advertising play?
Like c'mon, for real.
Let's be honest here.
No, I really don't think it was an advertising play.
I just think it was a really long day,
and I think that we just took our eye off the ball.
- [Interviewer] So, you think an intern got fired for that,
or...?
- No, no, no, no, no.
We needed every man, woman, and child
we could get to make the last season.
So I don't think it would've been, yeah.
- [Interviewer] Let's be honest, was it you?
- No!
Okay, I need to break something down.
We were not given Starbucks.
The cast were not given Starbucks.
We had craft services which does not
have a Starbucks logo on it.
So, literally could not have been mine.
- [Interviewer] She seems agitated.
- [Technician] I'm getting a strong reading
but she's telling the truth.
- Yeah, it's not my cup.
It wasn't me.
- [Technician] I think she's telling the truth.
- [Interviewer] All right.
Last question.
- Yes.
- [Interviewer] Did you at any point during
this interview lie and we didn't catch you?
- No.
- [Interviewer] Seems like you hesitated there.
Emilia, tell the truth.
- Okay, I wanted to play Krissten Wiig's part.
What am I gonna do?
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