Emilia Clarke Responds to Marvel’s Green Screen Actor Review

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While Emilia Clarke may have lost the war for the Iron Throne, she’s not about to surrender when it comes to defending herself and her co-stars from criticism. Swapping fantasy for sci-fi, Emilia Clarke recently left Westeros to join the almost equally deadly realm of the MCU in the new Marvel series Secret Invasion.

In Secret Invasion, Clarke stars as the Skrull daughter of Talos, G’iah, and she’s been one of the show’s main characters thus far. Naturally, as with any modern Marvel project, his role involves a fairly significant amount of work against green screen. This was criticized by Anthony Hopkins as (Odin in the Thor movies) as a “useless game”, something Clarke thinks is nonsense.

“The stigma is that people don’t play a role in these shows,” Clarke said, speaking to the Los Angeles Times. “And then you’re like, ‘Well, then why are they asking all these great actors to do this, and why are they saying yes?'”

The “great actors” Clarke refers to as being alongside her in the Secret Invasion cast are undoubtedly Samuel L. Jackson and Olivia Colman; two of the best actors of their respective generations. Meanwhile, Ben Mendelsohn, British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir and Cobie Smulders round out the rest of his co-stars.

“I was like, ‘Where do I sign?'” she recalled. “The casting is ridiculous.” Of course, Clarke is no stranger to working on artificial backgrounds. His work on Game of Thrones required extensive CGI and green screen to help bring his dragons to life, and the same was true in Terminator Genisys and Solo.

So she’s more than used to it and always manages to bring great performance to whatever she’s working on. Likewise, in Secret Invasion, Jackson and Colman are fantastic as always.

Still, there’s a larger conversation going on about a possible over-reliance on green screen and CGI in massive projects, especially as VFX artists increasingly talk about studio demands and its impact. about them personally and the quality of their work. But, for now, Emilia Clarke is perfectly happy acting with a green screen behind her, and that’s fine.

For all the latest MCU news, you can check out our many Secret Invasion guides, including our Secret Invasion Episode 3 recap and our Super-Skrulls explainer. Or, you can learn to watch the Marvel movies in order (it’s not as easy as you might think) before seeing what happens with the rest of Marvel’s Phase 5. You can also see our picks for the best TV series of all time.

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