Emilia Clarke Reveals She’s Actually Part-Asian and We are all Surprised
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By Bryan Ke
Emilia Clarke, the British actress who plays the Mother of Dragons in the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones” and as Qi’ra in the “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” revealed she is one-eighth Indian in a recent interview.
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While speaking to Vanity Fair, Clarke mentions that her grandmother had to wear makeup to hide the fact that she was half Indian.
“The fact that [my grandmother] had to hide her skin color, essentially, and try desperately to fit in with everyone else must’ve been incredibly difficult,” the 31-year-old actress said. “So, yeah: history of fighters.”
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In November 2017, she revealed to Harper’s Bazaar that her grandmother, who died when she was only 16, really loved India.
“It’s this epic story: My grandmother was colonial Indian, and it was a big old family secret because her mum had an affair with someone in India,” she said. “She would wear makeup to make her skin look white.”
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After her grandmother passed away, Clarke went to India with her boyfriend at the time to scatter her ashes.
“She loved India more than she loved England,” she said. “F***, yeah. I love that part of me—I’m like one-eighth Indian.”
In the words of E. Alex Jung, Clarke is a “Stealth Asian.”
Images via Instagram / emilia_clarke
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