Movies
For Sama
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
This film is about life, death, and the fragile space between where humanity lives, breathes and survives.
These two are real life miracles.
Femme
When Jordan gets into the car of a flirtatious drug-dealer, his night takes a dangerous turn.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
My amazingly talented friend made an AMAZING SHORT!
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
But she said of the “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” film: “What you’re seeing up there is perfection, and you can’t mimic or copy perfection.”
My Fair Lady
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
Ms. Clarke said that she had been obsessed with Hepburn since she was 5, when she watched “My Fair Lady” nearly every day after school.
Clueless
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
I, like, love Clueless.
The Wife
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
I’ve got a lovely job that I’m going to do with Björn Runge, who directed “The Wife,” which I thought was magnificent. It’s a small film about Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Lawrence of Arabia
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
I remember the boys—our writers and showrunners—telling me that Daenerys’s arc is that of Lawrence of Arabia. I watched “Lawrence of Arabia,” and I was, like, “Great, cool. He’s brilliant. He survived, and it’s wonderful.” But then you remember how that movie ended, with Lawrence’s disintegration. I didn’t quite put those two things together.
Thelma & Louise
Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
Best movie ever!
Moonrise Kingdom
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
Tuesday night you need a little kind of surreal optimism and no one does that better than Wes Anderson. I feel like "Moonrise Kingdom" has that giddy childish joy.
For Sama
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
This film is about life, death, and the fragile space between where humanity lives, breathes and survives.
These two are real life miracles.
Please watch and support this breathtaking work.
Books
Dear NHS
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCurated and edited by Adam Kay (author of multi-million bestseller This is Going to Hurt), Dear NHS features 100 household names telling their personal stories of the health service. Contributors include: Paul McCartney, Emilia Clarke, Peter Kay, Stephen Fry, Sir Trevor McDonald, Graham Norton, Sir Michael Palin, Naomie Harris, Sir David Jason, Dame Emma Thompson, Joanna Lumley, Miranda Hart, Jamie Oliver, Ed Sheeran, David Tennant, Dame Julie Walters, Emma Watson, Malala Yousafzai and many, many more. All profits from this book will go to NHS Charities Together to fund vital research and projects, and The Lullaby Trust which supports parents bereaved of babies and young children.Other writers include Jack Whitehall, Chris Evans, Lorraine Kelly, Lee Mack, Jonathan Ross, Konnie Huq, Frank Skinner, KT Tunstall and Sandi Toksvig. The NHS is our single greatest achievement as a country. No matter who you are, no matter what your health needs are, and no matter how much money you have, the NHS is there for you. In Dear NHS, 100 inspirational people come together to share their stories of how the national health service has been there for them, and changed their lives in the process. By turns deeply moving, hilarious, hopeful and impassioned, these stories together become a love letter to the NHS and the 1.4 million people who go above and beyond the call of duty every single day - selflessly, generously, putting others before themselves, never more so than now. They are all heroes, and this book is our way of saying thank you.Contributors include: Dolly Alderton, Monica Ali, Kate Atkinson, Pam Ayres, David Baddiel, Johanna Basford, Mary Beard, William Boyd, Frankie Boyle, Jo Brand, Kevin Bridges, Alex Brooker, Charlie Brooker, Rob Brydon, Bill Bryson, Kathy Burke, Peter Capaldi, Jimmy Carr, Candice Carty-Williams, Lauren Child, Lee Child, Bridget Christie, Emilia Clarke, Rev Richard Coles, Daisy May Cooper, Jilly Cooper, Fearne Cotton, Juno Dawson, Kit de Waal, Victoria Derbyshire, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Chris Evans, Anne Fine, Martin Freeman, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Mark Gatiss, Ricky Gervais, Professor Green, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Mark Haddon, Matt Haig, The Hairy Bikers, Naomie Harris, Miranda Hart, Victoria Hislop, Nick Hornby, Sali Hughes, Konnie Huq, Marina Hyde, E L James, Greg James, Sir David Jason, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Jackie Kay, Peter Kay, Lorraine Kelly, Marian Keyes, Shappi Khorsandi, Nish Kumar, Stewart Lee, Joanna Lumley, Lee Mack, Emily Maitlis, Andrew Marr, Catherine Mayer, Alexander McCall Smith, Paul McCartney, Sir Trevor McDonald, Caitlin Moran, Kate Mosse, Jojo Moyes, David Nicholls, John Niven, Graham Norton, Chris O'Dowd, Dermot O'Leary, Jamie Oliver, Sir Michael Palin, Maxine Peake, Sue Perkins, Katie Piper, Ian Rankin, Jonathan Ross, Ed Sheeran, Paul Sinha, Frank Skinner, Matthew Syed, Kae Tempest, David Tennant, Louis Theroux, Dame Emma Thompson, Sandi Toksvig, Stanley Tucci, KT Tunstall, Johnny Vegas, Danny Wallace, Dame Julie Walters, Phil Wang, Emma Watson, Mark Watson, Robert Webb, Irvine Welsh, Jack Whitehall, Josh Widdicombe, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Greg Wise, Malala Yousafzai, Benjamin Zephaniah.A minimum of £3.09 from the sale of each book will be paid to NHS Charities Together and £0.16 will be paid to The Lullaby Trust.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
I love my #nhs and here is a book where I will tell you the many ways in which I love The NHS...
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers."She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be." --New YorkerJenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the London Review of Books--selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politics and the joys of solitude--have been described as "virtuoso performances," and "small masterpieces."From Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? is a collective interrogation of the universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated--and mordantly funny.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
Ok so many many books have been read this lockdown and many are already being praised and seen but this is one I stumbled upon and cannot recommend highly enough! A collection of Jenny Diski’s articles, which are funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise, if you like beautiful writing to cheer up the same 4 walls you’ve been staring at, this is for you.
The Poetry Pharmacy
'Truly a marvellous collection ... There is balm for the soul, fire for the belly, a cooling compress for the fevered brow, solace for the wounded, an arm around the lonely shoulder - the whole collection is a matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss' Stephen FryAs heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart's poetic dispensarySometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and a chance to realize - I'm not the only one who feels like this.In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain.'The book is delightful; it rightly resituates poetryin relation to its biggest and most serious task: helping us to live and diewell' Alain de Botton
Emilia Clarke
Actress
In particular, I've been turning to this book "The Poetry Pharmacy". Now this is a collection of poems that has some incredible poets, but they've been categorized by the list of ailments, so it could be loneliness, heartbreak, grief, unkindness (or kindness). (0:48 s)
All the Light We Cannot See
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Emilia Clarke
Actress
This is one of the most beautiful love stories I’ve ever read. You don’t think it’s a love story, but it so is!
Just Kids
This book presents a portrait of two young artist's ascent - Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, 'Just Kids' begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It intends to serve as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
When in doubt. Read. And breathe. 😎
Clean and Lean for Life
If you want to eat well, you need to learn to cook well - but it needn't be as hard or as complicated as you think. In Clean & Lean for Life, James Duigan helps you every step of the way with mouthwatering recipes and cookery tips that will have you whizzing up nutritious meals in minutes, whatever your budget or lifestyle. For years, James has advocated cutting out sugar, avoiding alcohol and eating 'good' fats - advice that has now become mainstream. With advice on avoiding the cravings that can lead you off track, and on whether to use microwaves, whether it's worth getting a spiralizer or Nutribullet, plus inspiring tips on how to maintain your new healthy lifestyle, James demonstrates that you, too, can be clean and lean for life.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
Allow me to introduce the key to my very happy kitchen. This book. And this dude what wrote it... @jamesduigan your eyebrow makes my mornings.
It's Not Ok to Feel Blue (and Other Lies): Inspirational People Open Upabout Their Mental Health
Emilia Clarke
Actress
I promise nothing but good feelings upon reading, and pages and pages of them. Oh and by the way....ITS OK TO FEEL BLUE
Saltwater
LONGLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE'A distinctive new voice for fans of 'Fleabag' or Sally Rooney' Independent'Raw, intimate and authentic' The Sunday Times'Luminous' Observer'Lyrically poetic' Evening Standard'Disarmingly honest . . . I wish I had read this when I was 19.' GuardianWhen Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At least this is what Lucy expects, having grown up seemingly a world away in working-class Sunderland, amid legendary family stories of Irish immigrants and boarding houses, now-defunct ice rinks and an engagement ring at a fish market. Yet Lucy's transition to a new life is more overwhelming than she ever expected. As she works long shifts to make ends meet and navigates chaotic parties from East London warehouses to South Kensington mansions, she still feels like an outsider among her fellow students. When things come to a head at her graduation, Lucy takes off for Ireland, seeking solace in her late grandfather's cottage and the wild landscape that surrounds it, wondering if she can piece together who she really is. Lyrical and boundary-breaking, Saltwater explores the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, the challenges of shifting class identity and the way that the strongest feelings of love can be the hardest to define.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
The best two books I’ve read in years (#theoverstory should be mandatory reading the world over), yoga, spice, mamma earth and figuring out that all you’re ever looking for can be found within. Corny as hell but my god is it true.
The Overstory: A Novel
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018 "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
The best two books I’ve read in years (#theoverstory should be mandatory reading the world over), yoga, spice, mamma earth and figuring out that all you’re ever looking for can be found within. Corny as hell but my god is it true.
TV Shows
Sex and the City
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
That's my face; it's on that television. 'It's not TV, it's HBO.' But every time I see it and every time I hear it, I wait for [sings] the Sex and the City song … every time!"
Veep
A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
It's Saturday night and you need a giggle. I think "Veep" will provide you with that in abundance.
Doll & Em
Doll & Em is a British comedy series starring real-life friends Emily Mortimer (Em) and Dolly Wells (Doll), filmed in the style of a reality TV show. After a breakup, Doll heads to Hollywood to be with her childhood best friend Em, who's now a successful actress.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
Doll & Em this looks at the relationship between two best friends but the roles then become very questioned when Doll becomes Emily's assistant.
True Detective
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
Wednesday, I feel like you need something to really distract you and True Detective came along and just blew everything else out the water.
Friends
The misadventures of a group of friends as they navigate the pitfalls of work, life and love in Manhattan.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
How YOU doin?! Downright GIDDY now!! Bucket list accomplishment already underway with this gem (both in Joey and Matt form) 😍
Breaking Bad
When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on Girls, just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything. Or, like, a meth head on Breaking Bad. It'd be like Where's Wally?!
Girls
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on Girls, just to walk past one of the scenarios.
Music
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right — Bob Dylan
Emilia Clarke
Actress
An all-time favourite:
Bob Dylan - 'Don't Think Twice'
"This is an incredibly important song for me. It’s my past, my present, my future - the whole shebang," she said.
101 FM — Little Simz
Emilia Clarke
Actress
My newest music discovery:
Little Simz - '101 FM'
The Bucket — Kings of Leon
Emilia Clarke
Actress
Kings Of Leon's first records will always remind Emilia of her three years spent at drama school, she says. And there's no other music that brings her back so quickly to the place that she first heard it.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Deluxe Edition)
Emilia Clarke
Actress
An album that reminds me of my dad:
The Beatles - 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'
The Beatles are Emilia's one musical "true love" and their masterpiece of an eighth LP was "the most important album" to her growing up.
Gangsta's Paradise — Coolio, L.V.
Emilia Clarke
Actress
The song I know all the words to:
Coolio - 'Gangsta’s Paradise'
"You might not be expecting this next one," Emilia warns before playing Coolio's Grammy-winning 1995 rap hit, adding that the song was the second song she remembers discovering as a kid.
Check Yo Self — Ice Cube
Emilia Clarke
Actress
This song was the first song that I was listening to before I walked into my first "Game of Thrones" audition.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Remastered 2009 — The Beatles
Emilia Clarke
Actress
The first song of this album reminds me most of my dad.
I Like It
Emilia Clarke
Actress
What are your go-to songs, saying, when you are getting ready to go out? - Oh, I like usually Lizzo or Cardi B "You know I like it like that".
Last Christmas
Emilia Clarke
Actress
What is your favorite Christmas song? - You are not going to believe me. Genuinely - Last Christmas. Genuinely.
Stevie Nicks
Emilia Clarke
Actress
NO BIG DEAL.... Stevie just wanted to say hi... ON STAGE. @stevienicks I LOVE YOU
People
Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg
Emilia Clarke
Actress
Подтвержденный
SNOOP. DOGGY. DOGG. 🤯🥳
The man, the myth, the legend.
When he calls, you (I) come running.
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