A new gig for Emilia Clarke, and trailers for movies starring other GoT actors

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As Game of Thrones heads toward its penultimate season, we begin to see several actors from the show taking roles in feature films and various other television series. For instance, Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Carice van Houten (Melisandre) are starring together in Brimstone, which debuted at the Venice International Film Festival last year and will hopefully have a wider release soon. Have a look a look at the trailer:

"Wrongly accused of a crime she didn’t commit, a frontier woman turned fugitive is hunted by a vengeful preacher in the menacing inferno of the old American West."

Harington and Van Houten play neither the frontier woman nor the preacher, but they are in the movie. Kudos to them.

Moving on, Maisie Williams’ movie The Falling, where she plays school-aged girl in the 60s whose classmates start falling victim to a mysterious illness, is having its premiere on BBC Two this Saturday. The trailer:

Mystery. Horror. Coming-of-age stories. Period drama. Williams does it all.

We now interrupt your regularly scheduled celebrity news to bring you a video of Ian McElhinney (Barristan Selmy) playing a demo from Resident Evil 7 while wearing virtual reality googles. You are welcome.

He’s playing it on Sony’s PlayStation VR, by the way.

Resuming our broadcast, according to a report from the Deadline, Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) will play the female lead in the American remake of the 2015 Korean romantic comedy The Beauty Inside. The film follows a man who wakes up in a different body every day. Sometimes he’s a man, sometimes a woman. Sometimes he’s old, sometimes young, etc. The only thing that remains the same: the girl he loves and who loves him back despite his unique condition.

Sounds fun and confusing. We assume Clarke will play the girl.

In charity, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) is refereeing the Global Goals World Cup, an open women’s amateur soccer tournament designed, according to its website, to “leverage the power of sport to bring all kinds of people together.” He talked about it in a video posted to his Instagram.

Finally, former Game of Thrones star Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Bolton) was on hand for the start of Red Nose Day, an annual charity event put on by Comic Relief. He visited Nu Life Furniture, a company that provides low-income citizens with recycled furniture, and a recipient of funding from Comic Relief. “I have met the team here and walked around to see the amazing work they are doing” he said. “They do great work here using volunteers and teaching people new skills so they can move forward and gain confidence to do other things.”

"We need to be conscious of what we throw away now that we know what is destroying our planet. A lot of household items are not biodegradable and we need to be more aware and responsible and recycle as many items as we can."

There’s no biggest contrast with Ramsay Bolton than that.

h/t Wales Online