During the most recent installment ofEntertainment Weekly’s Around the Table series, starEmilia Clarkerevealed that it was “so much easier” to hide spoilers for MarvelSecret Invasionthan it was forGame of Thrones. Clarke’s confession came while theSecret Invasioncast and director spoke with EW about what fans can expect from the new Marvel series.
Clarke said, “I’ll tell you what, it’s so much easier now because whenever it comes up or people want to ask, you just get to be like, ‘Dude, Marvel. I can’t say anything.’ That’s just what I kept saying over and over again.”
TheMe Before Youstar went on to say that Marvel’s tight security protocols had already impacted her before she became a part of theMCU. Clarke said, “When we were doingGame of Thrones, when it started to get to the later seasons, some massive security changes happened.”
She continued, “I was chatting with [showrunners] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] and they were like, ‘Marvel. We’re just learning from Marvel. Whatever Marvel’s doing, we just want to do that.’ So that became, you don’t print anything — and then there was like me and Peter Dinklage being like, ‘I need it on paper! I can’t learn my lines without it being on paper!'”
The actor went on to reveal that when she first joined the cast ofSecret Invasions(in which Clarke plays the adult version of G’iah)she had a Zoom meeting with Marvel’s security that left theLast Christmasstar “terrified.” Clarke said, “I was like, ‘I think a man’s going to come and kill me if I say anything.'”
Emilia Clarke Said That She Took the Sim Card Out of Her Phone During Her First Couple Days of Filming Secret Invasion
The actor then noted that she took the SIM card out of her phone during her first couple of days of filming out of concern that fans would be able to track her location. Clarke added that it was a while before she “chilled out.” The star additionally recalled how painful it had been afterGoTspoilers were leaked to the public. “Not that I did the spoiling,” she added.
Clarke’sSecret Invasioncostar Samuel L. Jackson(who reprises his MCU character Nick Fury for the series) added thatSecret Invasionalso experienced some challenges similar toGoT, with people attempting to capture drone footage during filming.
Jackson said, “They shot one down. And they followed one back to where the dude was. They found him and, yeah, they got him.”
Jackson added, “There are worse examples than that! I remember when we got ready to doAvengers, someone printed out a copy of myAvengersscript that had my watermark on it, and put it online for sale. I was shooting in Canada and Marvel came to Canada. It had been printed in the production office… They found out who it was, dude quit, left the country. They set up a fake buy for the script, dude didn’t show up. It was crazy.”
The cast went on to chat more about their new Marvel series, with Clarke noting that fans of Jackson’s character will “get to know so much more about Nick Fury.”
Jackson said, “I’m the guy that everybody knows. So when [viewers] come to it, they’re coming to it like, ‘Oh, we’re finally getting the Nick Fury series,’ but they’re going to be surprised because they’re going to find out so much about these other people who they’re going to want to know more about.”
The first episode ofSecret Invasionis now available to watch on Disney +.
