Emilia Clarke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It sort of became this like
pinnacle of unintelligence which followed me throughout my whole school career to the point where when I'm on stage doing the seagull in the West End and Tom Rhys Harris the cheeky little bugger we're talking about prime numbers
And it's scripted and we have our lines.
And he decides to change it one night because he thinks it's funny.
And he looks at me and he goes white because I've gone white.
I'm crying.
And he runs out.
I'm so sorry.
I saw you crumble.
I didn't mean to do that.
I think he then riffed for me.
But it's like this constant fear, like a deep, yeah, like a fear of numbers, but which feels like a colossal failure.
100%.
I could see it in my dad.
Like, why aren't you getting it?
And my dad was an incredibly sensitive, kind, loving, gorgeous man.
You rarely saw him cross.
But I knew in that moment in the back of the car of just going, I can't get past, like this is, I have done something wrong here.
This is wrong that I can't do it because he's something that's so simple for him to do.
And I just could never get there.