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Chapter 1: What inspired Emilia Clarke's passion for acting?
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Chapter 2: How did Emilia Clarke cope with imposter syndrome after early fame?
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Emilia face after losing her father?
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Chapter 4: How did Emilia Clarke's brain aneurysms impact her life?
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Chapter 5: What was Emilia's experience with recovery after her brain surgeries?
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Emilia Clarke was three when she sat on her mother's lap on the front row of the London Palladium watching a production of Showboat that her sound engineer father had worked on. She was, she recalled later, transfixed and set her heart on becoming an actor. Almost 20 years later, her TV debut was a guest appearance on the BBC soap Doctors in 2009.
Then, at the age of 23, Clarke was cast as Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons, in HBO's juggernaut fantasy series Game of Thrones. She received four Emmy nominations across eight seasons and became internationally famous, going on to star in films including Terminator Genisys, Solo, A Star Wars Story and the romantic comedy Me Before You.
On stage, she won critical acclaim for her magnetic performance as Nina in The Seagull in the West End.
Chapter 6: How does Emilia Clarke define being a 'bad celebrity'?
But the fact that she had been a complete unknown at the time of her Game of Thrones audition left Clarke feeling she had, in her words, imposter syndrome times a million. It was not her only challenge.
In 2011, just after filming had wrapped on the debut season, she suffered the first of two life-threatening brain aneurysms, a shattering experience that later led to her setting up the charity Same You with her mother, Jenny. Clarke's charity work in neurorehabilitation earned her an MBE in the 2024 honours list. Now she returns to our screens in Ponies, a Cold War spy series on Sky and Now TV.
Clarke stars as one of the two US embassy secretaries in late 1970s Moscow who become CIA operatives after their husbands die in mysterious circumstances.
Chapter 7: What lessons did Emilia learn from her time on Game of Thrones?
Still yet to turn 40, that happens later this year, Clarke's acting career has been one of notable highs. But, she says, if there's anything else you can do, do that. Because acting has to be the only thing you can do to commit to the levels of failure. Amelia Clarke, welcome to How to Fail. Thank you so much.
Chapter 8: How has Emilia Clarke's perspective on self-image evolved?
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Oh my God, yeah. That was beautiful. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for coming on How to Fail, but also thank you for being such a supporter of this podcast from the very, very early days. It did not go unnoticed and it meant a lot. Good. I loved ponies. Oh, good. It's so good. Good. It's fun. It's so fun. Yes. It feels so fresh.
Yes. It's two female leads. That's the thing. It's two female leads. And it's not even, there's like, it's pure friendship.
Yes.
It's just pure friendship. There's no, it's not two female leads that are actually going to fall in love with each other. It's... just friends, just female friendship, which is, you know, the most important part of my life. And it's amazing to be able to have a show and be, and that being the main theme of it.
And you've said that it's the hardest job you've ever done.
Oh, yeah. Which seems weird for all the really... I think maybe it's the best time to be honest about how hard jobs are. No, I've had some really horrible, hard jobs. This was hard because this is the first time... I have a production company and this is the first production that we are producing, that I was a producer and an actor in.
The added little spicy thing that made it nearly impossible to do was the Russian. Yeah. I speak a lot of Russian.
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