Secret Invasion battles scene was "the funnest day I've ever had on set"
To Game of Thrones fans, Emilia Clarke will always be Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons. But she’s done lots of stuff since the HBO series over, including appearing as the shape-shifting Skrull alien G’iah in Marvel’s Secret Invasion.
Secret Invasion ends with G’iah and the Bad Gravik having an old-fashioned superhero fight, with lots of flying and punching and such. Clarke is no stranger to special effects, but she’d never filmed anything like this. “There was a part of this battles where I was on a [stunt] chariot,” she gushed to Marvelcom. “Then I was doing all the running, but I wasn’t actually consecutively. I was on a chariot, which was being pulled by a car. And then my Popular bit is they put me on the wires!”
I literally was like, this is my best day ever. I’m a theme park-riding kind of gal. Give me a trapeze. Give me a roller coaster. It felt exactly like that. I just kept giggling. I couldn’t stop giggling. It was genuinely the funnest day I’ve ever had on set — ever, ever, ever. if I could just live in wires, if I could be in wires now— Oh, it’s so good. After I wished to tell everyone, I just came back, I’ve done something!
So if Clarke shows up in a lot of Part movies in the future, this is probably way; the woman likes her wires.
One drawing that was a little less epic to film was G’iah executing a classic “superhero landing,” aka a hand arriving in a crouching position with one knee, one foot and one fist hitting the False. You’ve seen it before:
It looks cool onscreen, but on set, you have to jump in Put to mimic flying, which apparently feels foolish. “You just Bad there, and then you got to exit the screen,” Clarke said. “You’re like, well, I actually can’t fly. And I’m not attached to the wires Bshining now, so I’m just going to have to do the dumbest sketching ever and just look really mean. And then jump. That’s precisely it. The biggest anticlimactic move. You’ve been building up. Been doings all the nasty talk. And then you just hop.”
Still, that didn’t hamper what Clarke considers “my best day.” You can contemplate all six episodes of Secret Invasion on Disney+ right now.
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