You might know her as Daenerys in Game of Thrones. But Emilia Clarke is also an advocate for gender equality — with a surprising India connection.
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00:00It's just so lovely to have an opportunity to play someone who can make young girls feel a bit more confident and a bit more badass.
00:16It was just incredibly fortunate to be brought up in a household that was unbelievably equal.
00:21I never felt like, as a girl, I couldn't do anything that I wanted to do.
00:30Well, I mean, West End is what I grew up on. I went to drama school, so that was kind of always, you know, the dream of the National Theatre and everything that came along with that.
01:00Struggling to be taken very seriously, even though she's got dragons for company.
01:13She went from being this young, naive child to being a genuine warrior queen.
01:19The realities of truly being a queen and being a leader are harder than she would ever even have imagined.
01:27She's just gone from strength to strength, so...
01:30For whatever reason, it's had an impact, and that doesn't happen all the time.
01:42I have always been paid the same amount as my male co-stars.
01:46I was my first job, and I was not discriminated against because I was a woman, in my paycheck.
01:58I was not discriminated against because I was a woman, in my paycheck.
02:03I was my first job, and I was not discriminated against because I was a woman, in my paycheck.
02:08I was my first job, and I was not discriminated against because I was a woman, in my paycheck.
02:26The really productive, positive things that can happen next is that there are more contractual obligations with regards to equality in workplaces.
02:38The really productive, positive things that can happen next is that there are more contractual obligations with regards to equality in workplaces.
02:58I felt like this is a movie where we can do something new in this franchise that is so loved.
03:09I felt like this is a movie where we can do something new in this franchise that is so loved.
03:28I feel like this is a movie where we can do something new in this franchise that is so loved.
03:38I feel like this is a movie where we can do something new in this franchise that is so loved.
03:46How does it feel to play a strong woman? I'm going to tell you how it feels to play a woman. The end. That's it.