Emilia Clarke Takes a Lie Detector Test

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.

[dramatic music]

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?

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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