"I am realizing that for better or for worse, no matter how many other jobs I do and how long I have the good fortune of being an actor, that will be the headline on my gravestone, she tells EL PAIS via video call. The interview, conducted in mid-January, is focused on her new series, Ponies (SkyShowtime), but she accepts the questions about her most famous role with a smile, and a touch of resignation."
"In Ponies, Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson play two women working at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1977. The mysterious deaths of their husbands in a plane crash lead them to become CIA agents to investigate what happened. They leverage their status as PONIES, an acronym for people of no interest. The two are very different, but their shared experiences will bring them together. Furthermore, Clarke's character, Bea, is fluent in Russian, something the actor herself, she notes, does not speak."
"Furthermore, Clarke's character, Bea, is fluent in Russian, something the actor herself, she notes, does not speak. I had to learn it. Real languages are much harder than made-up ones [referring to Dothraki, a language from Game of Thrones]. And the pressure, because there are different accents in Russia and different dialects. I learned the lines. I couldn't have done any more. I learned them really well."
Emilia Clarke, 39, accepts that she will always be remembered as Daenerys from Game of Thrones and regards the role as a defining part of her twenties. She expresses gratitude for the opportunity and describes mixed feelings about the experience, likening it to high school. Clarke co-stars with Haley Lu Richardson in Ponies, playing two women at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1977 whose husbands die in a plane crash, prompting them to become CIA agents investigating the incident. The series uses PONIES as an acronym for people of no interest. Clarke learned Russian lines for her role and found real languages harder than invented ones.
Read at english.elpais.com
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