Emilia Clarke shares her beauty secrets, and other Game of Thrones cast members stuff

The Mother of Dragons must needs look her best when greeting her public — the queen of the rabbits must not be seen without her floppy ears, after all. As a woman constantly in the public eye, the same goes for Emilia Clarke, who shared of her own beauty habits with Vogue. Clarke, being English, is a fan of sunscreen, goes light on fragrance, and has to take off her makeup before bed lest things get weird. “I can be blackout drunk and I’ll still take my make-up off. I get nightmares when I sleep in my make-up; it’s the weirdest thing.”

"I’ve become less afraid of red lipstick as I’ve gotten older and I’m feeling a bit more – weirdly – daring in not wearing as much make-up overall. You know when you’re a kid you just whack it all on. It was a little like here’s my face, and then “oh, my neck is a different colour”. Although, my mum did school me as she worked in beauty marketing. So she gave me good tips quite early on. She was not afraid to be like, “darling, if you’re going to put bronzer on, rub it in”. I still send her photos on the way to the red carpet but she knows not to be like “you look terrible” on the way there because you can’t do anything about it. But if you get the mum seal of approval, you’ve smashed it!"

Clarke’s mom was also the one to tell her not to pluck her eyebrows, which are some of the most distinctive in the business. For that we are thankful.

If you’d only ever seen Clarke on Thrones, you may be under the mistaken impression that she’s a natural (platinum) blonde. Not so: she’s a brunette, and finally took the plunge and dyed her hair for the final season of the show. We applaud her commitment, but the dye job had a few downsides. “I’m honestly trying to grow out the blonde, because it’s just killed my hair, and I miss having nice hair!” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “I do like the length but I wish my hair was longer. I do bloody love long hair, but then I’m always dreaming of cutting it all off and having a pixie cut – but I don’t know that my face could take it.”

"I feel like being this blonde is kind of like you’re constantly wearing an accessory. So, you can wear all black and be like ‘I tried! There you go’, whereas when you’re brunette and wearing all black it’s like, ‘meh’, do you know what I mean? But it’s also very difficult because I get recognised a lot more, and I’m less good at dealing with that. So I’m thinking ‘ah, I’ll go back brown and then maybe be a bit more incognito again!’. You clock anyone who’s got this hair colour anyway, so you see someone with peroxide blonde hair you look, and then [people] go ‘oh my god it’s that chick from the show with the dragons’ – and then I’m running!"

Clarke shares several other insights here and here, but we’ve gotta share one more story from the Bazaar interview, about what happens when she tries to do her own hair for events:

"[I’m] Good at doing my own make-up; terrible at doing my own hair. Can’t do it to save my life. Never have been, never will be…If I try and curl my own hair I burn my face or my ears, I’m hopeless. I recently burnt my face before the Game of Thrones wrap party and everyone was like ‘we never noticed that massive birth mark on your face!’ and I was like, ‘no, it’s a burn…’ I had my head under the tap for about three hours!"

And y’know, Clarke didn’t enter the wrap party at the same time as other cast members. I guess we now know why.

Anyway, in non-beauty related news, Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Bolton) talks to WhatsOnStage about his new role in the play Foxfinder, which will shortly begin a run at the Ambassadors Theater in London.

Rheon plays the lead role of William Bloor, a “foxfinder” — a kind of government inspector — in the employ of a totalitarian state. “I don’t think Ramsay would be a very good foxfinder,” Rheon confirmed, “cause he’d just end up getting bored and killing everyone, just for a laugh.” Noted.

Rheon isn’t the only Game of Thrones alum hitting the boards in London. Kit Haringtonand maisie Williams are also in plays there, and the group keeps in touch. “There’s a WhatsApp group. There’re all just copying me, basically, obviously.”

"No, it’s really cool…Kit sort of started off in theater as well, and I don’t think Maisie’s really done much so it’s great that she’s wanted to do it. I think it’s a really good discipline to learn…It’s a very very different discipline to TV and film."

Speaking of Maisie Williams, have you ever wondered which Hogwarts House she belongs to, and if she can spell the names of the Hogwarts houses? She answered both of those questions on Twitter:

And if you were wondering, Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm) is a Hufflepuff:

I recommend all Game of Thrones cast members do this.

Finally, there’s a new trailer for The Predator out. Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy) is in the movie, although I don’t see him in the trailer. Am I missing anything?

Let’s hope Allen’s character comes out of this movie a little less banged up than Theon, although the outlook isn’t great.

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