Last week I was talking to a Shadow Minister about his party s problems which he summed up with a colourful – and shrewd – analogy. A guy s car won t start, he told me, so he calls a mechanic. The mechanic arrives and says, Ah, I see the problem. You re out of petrol. The guy says, Oh, I thought it was the starter motor. The mechanic says, No, you just need some petrol. The guy says, OK. But could you still check the starter motor. So the mechanic checks. Starter motor s fine. Shall I put the petrol in? The guy says, No, I think I ll change the starter motor first, and see how I get on. That guy is the Labour Party.
Few characters in history have ever had more monikers than Emilia Clarke did on
Game of Thrones. She was Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons. Now she’s ready to add another impressive title to her name: comic book writer.
M.O.M: Mother of Madness, a comic book by Emilia Clarke. Out July 21st. pic.twitter.com/6BfUrUpjeb Emilia Clarke Updates (@EClarkeUpdates) April 21, 2021
EW reports the actress has penned her first ever comic,
Game of Thrones Emilia Clarke Eyeing Marvel s Secret Invasion (Report) TVLine 4 hrs ago
The onetime Dragon Queen rises again.
Game of Thrones alum Emilia Clarke reportedly is close to being an official cast member on Marvel’s
Secret Invasion at Disney+, per our sister site Variety.
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Secret Invasion will become Clarke’s first television role since wrapping HBO’s hugely popular
Thrones in 2019. Currently, no details on her role are available; TVLine has reached out to Marvel Studios for comment.
Announced in December during the Walt Disney Company’s Investor Day 2020,
Secret Invasion stars MCU vet Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and
Game of Thrones superfans may know that Emilia Clarke wasn t the first to play Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons. However, nobody has heard from the O.G. actor, Tamzin Merchant, on the subject until now.
Merchant (
The Tudors, Carnival Row) was just 21 years old when she was cast in the original pilot for
Entertainment Weekly, the entire pilot was pretty much scrapped and reshot before its actual premiere on HBO in 2011. However, Jason Momoa was still Khal Drogo, and Merchant vividly remembers shooting