Enchanting Emilia Clarke

September 09 2026

Press: Emilia Clarke to make National Theatre debut in ‘Plenty’

Directed by former National Theatre Director Richard Eyre, the play examines post-World War II disillusion through the life of ex-secret agent Susan Traherne.

9 September, 2026, 15:00

London Theatre: Games of Thrones star Emilia Clarke will make her National Theatre debut in David Hare’s Plenty, which begins performances in the National’s Lyttelton Theatre in spring 2027.

Directed by former National Theatre Director Richard Eyre, the play examines post-World War II disillusion through the life of ex-secret agent Susan Traherne. Plenty will be staged ahead of the play’s 50th anniversary.

Clarke made her West End stage debut as Nina in a 2022 modern staging of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, directed by Jamie Lloyd.

Further artistic team, casting, and performance dates are to be announced.

Check back for Plenty tickets on LondonTheatre.co.uk

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January 04 2026

Press: Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson Go Under Cover as CIA Operatives in Action Packed Trailer for Peacock Series Ponies

Set in the 1970s, ‘Ponies’ sees two widowed women step into their late husbands’ CIA roles after their deaths

People Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson go under cover in the first steamy, action-packed trailer for their new Peacock show Ponies.

The spy thriller sees Clarke, 39, as Bea and Richardson, 30, as Twila. The pair become fast friends when their husbands, both CIA agents under cover at the U.S. Embassy, are moved to Moscow, Russia, then the capital of the Soviet Union, in 1977. After both of their husbands are suddenly killed in a plane crash, they volunteer to take their place — and they find themselves sucked into Moscow’s underbelly as CIA operatives.

Posing as secretaries to the U.S. Ambassador to the USSR’s office, the pair work to find answers about their husbands’ deaths, and the mysteries of the USSR.

“We’re women, people only look at us if they want to have sex with us or marry us, and that’s it,” Richardson’s character says in the trailer. “No one, would ever suspect anything of us.”

Adrian Lester plays Dane, a CIA operative who introduces Bea and Twila to the CIA. “This job demands sacrifice. Most people are not cut out for it,” Lester, 57, says in the trailer, between montages of action-packed shoot outs, fights and chases.

In a humorous scene, Richardson’s character lights a bar on fire. “You could have killed someone,” Twila tells Bea, to which she replies “I didn’t know it was flammable.” Twila then says “Everything is flammable once you light it on fire.”

The trailer also sees the women navigating new relationships while widowed and working undercover, before explaining the show’s unique name.

In a scene in which Dane, Bea and Twila patrol near a KGB official, Dane tells the women “I’m a P-O-I. Person of Interest. But you two are P-O-N-I’s.”

“Ponies,” Twila replies. “Persons of no interest,” Bea says. The trailer is also full of intricate visuals, from rich Russian interiors to period-accurate 1970s wardrobe and hair styles.

Ponies hits Peacock on Jan. 15, 2026.

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June 19 2024

Press: “I was just not ready”: The role Emilia Clarke called catastrophic

FAR OUT MAGAZINE It doesn’t feel like that long ago that Emilia Clarke was an unknown name in Hollywood, with the actor only taking her first steps in the industry in 2009. Even then, her roles were minor, with it taking another two years for her profile to reach a global audience thanks to the release of HBO’s fantasy behemoth Game of Thrones, which catapulted the newcomer to international acclaim.

Clarke certainly wasn’t alone in her sudden rise to stardom, as Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, and Maisie Williams were just three actors who found great success off the back of the HBO show. Unlike Williams and Turner, Clarke was a little older when she arrived in Game of Thrones’ Westeros, making her transition into other Hollywood roles that much quicker.

All while she was still working on the series, Clarke also found the time to appear alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator Genisys, as well as Solo: A Star Wars Story, two films that fired her into a pair of Hollywood’s most beloved franchises. Though both films failed to catch the imagination of fans, there was no doubt that they placed Clarke in a newfound position of prosperity.

Yet, not everything during this period of time was so successful for Clarke, with the actor bravely taking to Broadway in 2013 only for things to go badly wrong. If taking to the stage is a risk in itself, playing an iconic character is even braver, with Clarke adopting the character of Holly Golightly in a stage adaptation of the 1961 Blake Edwards movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s, starring Audrey Hepburn.

Slated by critics, Clarke admitted to the BBC that her time in the role was a “catastrophic failure” before explaining, “It was just not ready. Was I ready? No, I was definitely not ready. I was a baby. I was so young and so inexperienced”.

Despite being 27 years of age when she appeared on stage, Clarke had only taken a small handful of professional roles before she was in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, with Dom Hemingway being her only major feature film and Game of Thrones her only significant TV credit. Indeed, without the necessary experience and with the added pressure after becoming a household name, it’s no wonder that Clarke flopped.

Ever since Game of Thrones came to an end in 2019, Clarke has failed to find proper consistency, only finding small slices of success in Marvel’s Secret Invasion mini-series and the charming festive flick Last Christmas.

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September 04 2023

Press/Gallery: Emilia Clarke receives the Nouvel Hollywood award at Film Festival

MSN Emilia Clarke put on a glamorous display at the 49th Deauville American Film Festival in France on Sunday.

The Emmy award nominee was snapped beaming from ear to ear as she received the prestigious Nouvel Hollywood award at the annual event.

The star, 36, posed proudly with the award ahead of the presentation of her latest movie.

Emilia was pictured receiving the award from the French director Alexandre Aja, member of the Jury of Revelations, ahead of the presentation of her movie.

Dazzling in a black sequined gown, the star showed off her slim physique in the dress which featured a plunging neckline.

The actress seemed to be in great spirits as she attended the film premiere for her latest project The Pod Generation.

Showing off her natural beauty, the star tucked her brunette locks behind her eyes and kept her makeup fairly natural aside from a bold red lip.

Accessorising the fit, she wore a pair of dangly pearl earrings and elevated her height with some simple black heels.

Emilia stars alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor in the science fiction romantic comedy film written and directed by Sophie Barthes.

Set in the not-so-distant future, the film follows Rachel (Emilia) and Alvy (Chiwetel) as tech giant Pegazus offers couples the opportunity to share their pregnancies via detachable artificial wombs or pods.

And so begins Rachel and Alvy’s wild ride to parenthood in this brave new world.

The 49th edition of the Deauville American Film Festival kicked off on Friday and will run until Sunday 10th September.

It is film festival season as the 80th Venice Film Festival also kicked off earlier this week and Toronto is gearing up.

Yet the hotly-anticipated events won’t be full of their usual Hollywood sparkle due to the writers’ and actors’ strike which has paralysed Hollywood for several weeks.

Venice has already felt the effects of the strike after the Day two of the festival proved to be a low-key event on Thursday as only a handful of stars turned out for the Ferrari premiere.

The festival marks the start of the awards season and regularly throws up big favourites for the Oscars. Eight of the past 11 Best Director awards at the Oscars went to films that debuted at Venice.

Yet while it usually attracts the biggest name in Hollywood, stars have been shunning the event this year because the SAG-AFTRA strikes has prevented them from promoting their work there.

The writers union, the WGA, went on strike on May 2, and were followed by SAG-AFTRA, the actors union, on July 14.

It seems Deauville will be similarly effected, as stars Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Peter Dinklage and Joseph Gordon-Levitt reportedly all cancelled their visit despite being billed to receive a Deauville Talent Award.

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July 29 2023

Press: ‘Secret Invasion’: Emilia Clarke on G’iah’s Newfound Powers

“I literally was like, this is my best day ever.”

Marvel In Episode 6 of Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion, Gravik gets exactly what he wants — all the Super Hero power he could ever imagine, including Captain Marvel’s abilities via the Harvest. Unfortunately for Gravik, G’iah gets them, too.

Though the two started off as cautious Skrull allies at the beginning of the series, by the final episode G’iah has turned on Gravik after he killed both her father and mother, along with countless others opposing the Skrull’s fight (and even some Skrulls originally fighting alongside him). It ends with the two of them as so-called “Super-Skrulls” having absorbed multiple powers from a dozen Marvel heroes and flying and fighting through the air hoping to overpower the other. And though Emilia Clarke is no stranger to stunts, this was the most fun she’s ever had filming something.

In an interview conducted in June 2023, Clarke gushed over how she had “the most amount of fun” filming this final fight scene and all the stunt work that went with it.

“There was a part of this fight where I was on a [stunt] chariot. Then I was doing all the running, but I wasn’t actually running. I was on a chariot, which was being pulled by a car. And then my favorite bit is they put me on the wires!” she gushed to Marvel.com.

(It’s at this point that Ben Mendelsohn, who was also present for the interview, starts shouting “No way! No way!” because he was not on set while any of this was being filmed, and as a proud on-screen dad, he’s very excited about all of this.)

Much of the action in the final Gravik-G’iah fight scene required Clarke to be in the wires for moments of flying in the episode, and even after filming was done, the stunt team “couldn’t get [her] out of them.”

“I literally was like, this is my best day ever,” She excitedly continued. “I’m a theme park-riding kind of gal. Give me a trapeze. Give me a roller coaster. It felt exactly like that. I just kept giggling. I couldn’t stop giggling. It was genuinely the funnest day I’ve ever had on set — ever, ever, ever. if I could just live in wires, if I could be in wires now— Oh, it’s so good. After I wanted to tell everyone, I just came back, I’ve done something!”

Through all the wire stunts (and giggling), Clarke still had to nail the Super Hero action for the scene, including landing in a Super Hero “pose” following one hard punch to Gravik. Easier said than done for Clarke, who found this motion to be a little bit awkward, as it required her to simply jump in place to recreate the action of flying.

“You just stand there, and then you got to exit the screen,” She explained, miming the action. “You’re like, well, I actually can’t fly. And I’m not attached to the wires right now, so I’m just going to have to do the dumbest thing ever and just look really mean. And then jump. That’s exactly it. The biggest anticlimactic move. You’ve been building up. Been doing all the nasty talk. And then you just hop.”

But even the hopping can’t take away from Clarke once again declaring it “my best day.”

This interview was conducted during the Secret Invasion press junket in June 2023.

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