Emilia Clarke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And the more you avoid it, the bigger they become.
And then you end up,
pulling pints in a bar in Hackney between the days before Game of Thrones when I'd just come out of drama school and I lost them money.
I lost the bar money because people would give me a 20 and I would probably give that right back.
I'd give them six drinks and the fear of not being able to calculate.
How wonderful.
I know, wild.
It sort of just sounds really precocious and obnoxious, but I think with my dad in the theatre, I was aware of that job.
earlier than someone else would have been.
I used to watch Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrington in My Fair Lady.
I used to watch that daily for like four years, I think.
Fast forward through all of Rex's bits.
Him in the library?
Nope.
Not interested in you, bruv.
But that whole story had me transfixed.
And I just, I remember being at school and we had put on, they were putting on a play and this was baby school.
This was like before, I mean, I must've been five.
And I didn't realize it at the time, but the teacher had us stand in a line
And she gave us a paragraph to say out loud.