How Emilia Clarke Won the 'Me Before You' Press Tour, No Dragons Necessary
Clarke and her costar Sam Claflin (Photo: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Emilia Clarke has been doing double-duty on the press circuit. Not only is the British actress promoting her sixth season as Game of Thrones’ “mother of dragons” Daenerys Targaryen, but she’s is starring (along with her real hair) in the romantic drama Me Before You that opened on June 3. That Me Before You did solid box office this weekend is no surprise, since its 29-year-old star has mounted a charm offensive so irresistible, it could melt the Iron Throne into a puddle of goo. Some highlights from Clarke’s winning press tour:
On The Graham Norton Show, she succeeded where many have failed, and sweet-talked Matt LeBlanc into asking his Friends catchphrase “How you doin’?”
Acknowledging that one of the biggest differences between her Me Before You and Game of Thrones performances is the use of her eyebrows, Clarke engaged in an eyebrow-acting competition with The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert.
In a print interview with Time, Clarke described initiating an on-set prank war between herself and Me Before You co-star Sam Claflin. It started with a Khaleesi bobblehead doll being kidnapped and held for ransom, and then escalated: “I put a fart machine in his wheelchair,” she told the magazine. “And so Sam stole all of the furniture out of my room — sofa, desk, lamp, everything. And then I just put fish in his socks because I couldn’t think anything else to do. I was pressed for time.”
Then she picked Claflin’s nose on Instagram.
During Yahoo Movies’ Game of Thrones/Hunger Games quiz, she helped Claflin with his Westeros trivia.
She also started an Instagram war with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, who were doing their Central Intelligence junket down the hall.
It ended in a truce.
And last but not least, Emilia Clarke proved that she can out-cute a sofa-full of puppies.
(Photos: Instagram)
