Like many of the break out stars from Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke has been taking steps to launch herself into a movie career before the show is over (or her character dies, whichever comes first.) last summer she headlined the Terminator comeback, to less than stellar reviews, even though the character she played (alternate reality Sarah O’Conner) was a lot like the fierce Khalessi we know on the small screen. This time she’s taking a different tact, starring in a romantic tearjerker film as the star crossed lover heroine in the movie based off the best selling novel Me Before You.
It helps that she’s not the only star cast in this movie that have been pulled from hit small screen shows fro our current Golden Age of Television. Not only does Charles Dance, the late great Tywin Lannister, appear as a stern patriarchal figure, but she’s surrounded by a bevy of fantasy/period movie and television show star power. There’s Jenna Coleman (Clara from Doctor Who), Brendan Coyle (Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey) Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter movies) and Sam Caftin who was last seen as Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games franchise. Caftin plays quadriplegic Will Traynor, who Clarke’s character Louisa is hired to be the caretaker/nurse for before all that falling-in-love stuff starts happening, and your heart starts feeling like a pregnant Khaleesi is eating it and the tears start flowing like you’re about to see the Red Wedding all over again.
Ow, my heart. Ow ow ow. I’m not sure what I’m more overwhelmed by–the tragic romance that’s unfolding or the sheer amount of British fantasy actor star power the movie has hired to try and make this thing a hit. Let’s hope for Clarke’s sake, they succeed.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/02/04/emilia-clarke-does-a-180-from-daenerys-in-the-me-before-you-trailer/
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