I like Emilia Clarke so much, but there isn’t a lot of interest in her these days, which kind of sucks! Honk if you like Emilia, peeps. She’s not controversial, she’s doesn’t go on and on about how awful it is that people think she’s beautiful, and she seems pretty well-adjusted overall. It probably helps that while she’s very pretty/adorable, most people can’t pick her out of a lineup because she wears that white-blonde wig on Game of Thrones. But Emilia, like so many of the GoT actors, is trying to break out. She’s got a new movie, Me Before You, and that’s why she’s been giving more interviews lately. She covers the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK, and while I liked her quotes, they aren’t that noteworthy.

On her feminism: “I’m normally surrounded by dudes. Doing ‘Me Before You’ meant I didn’t have to be continually proving myself in a man’s world, having to try and force people to listen to me. I’ve got a really strong mum. I was brought up thinking that men and women are equal. It’s only as I’ve got older that I’ve been like, ‘Mum! What the f–k? Why are they treating me differently because I’ve got a pair of t**s?’”

She’s not BFFs with coworkers: “Sometimes you get really close to someone but you know you won’t see each other after the movie is done — ‘red carpet buddies’. That can be a big thing to come up against, because you constantly have to check in with your friends at home. They’re all, ‘But you’re off living the dream,’ and I say, ‘No I’m not.’ Actually everyone else has got a life, and you have to put your life on hold to make a movie. If I sense that they’re starting to get a bit funny about [her success], I’ll be hugely honest. Call it First World Problems or Holly-problems. Or whatever. But I’ve fought them on it, and been like, ‘Oi. Nothing’s changed.’”

No one hits on her: “I don’t get hit on a lot. Last year I could have been wearing a sandwich board and ringing a bell and nobody would have noticed.”

[From The Evening Standard]

I think that might explain why she’s not buddy-buddy with the rest of the Game of Thrones cast, besides Jason Momoa. I mean, Jason and Emilia adore each other quite openly, but he’s not even on the show anymore. The rest of the cast seems to hang out a lot, especially Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner and Kit Harington. But Emilia’s like, “No, I’ve got my friends from home, I’m good.” As for Emilia only realizing as she gets older that she’s being treated differently because she’s a woman… it happens. I didn’t really understand ingrained sexism and the different ways men and women are treated until I got to my late teens and early 20s.

Photos courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar UK.