Fans were greeted with a couple first official looks at the new MCU series coming to Disney+. During the D23 Expo, the first trailers for “Secret Invasion” and the all-new Halloween special, “Werewolf by Night”, were shown much to their delight.
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Emilia Clarke after comments where he called the actress “short and dumpy”.Patrick Delany was attending the premiere of House Of The Dragon in Sydney where he made a speech before a screening of the first episode. Clarke famously played Daenerys Targaryen in predecessor show Game Of Thrones.Speaking to the audience, Delany spoke about how he was late to the former HBO fantasy series, saying: “I was like, ‘What’s this show with the short, dumpy girl walking into the fire?’”The comments were reportedly received coldly, according to those who were in attendance.In response to the backlash, a Foxtel spokesperson told Crikey: “The aim was to convey that for him, Game Of Thrones was something very different for television in 2011 and that Emilia Clarke went from relatively unknown to one of the most recognised and most-loved actors in television and film.“On behalf of Mr Delany, the Foxtel Group apologises if his remarks were misunderstood and caused any offence.”House Of The Dragon, which has just premiered, focuses on events 200 years before Game Of Thrones and the Targaryen dynasty, starring the likes of Matt Smith, Paddy Considine and Emma D’Arcy.
The show has already received positive reactions.Meanwhile, Clarke recently discussed losing “quite a bit” of her brain following two aneurysms, telling BBC One’s Sunday Morning talk show: “The amount of my brain that is no longer usable – it’s remarkable that I am able to speak, sometimes articulately, and live my life completely normally with absolutely no repercussions.”Clarke continued of brain scans she has received since: “There’s quite a bit missing! Which always makes me laugh. I am in the really, really, really small minority of people that can survive that.”The star
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The original Cooper family sans Shailene Woodley's character of Kaitlin Cooper have publicly reunited and have transported fans back to the early 2000s. Tate Donovan (Jimmy Cooper), Melinda Clarke (Julie Cooper) and Mischa Barton (Marissa Cooper) all caught up in Charleston, South Carolina, with Clarke posting, "SO THIS HAPPENED! Cooper family reunion!" to her Instagram. A far cry from where the show took place, Orange County, California — more specifically Newport Beach — the three stars have not been publicly spotted together since the show wrapped in 2007.
House Of The Dragon viewers have been left traumatised and upset by a birth scene which takes place in the first episode of the new Game of Thrones prequel, with some saying it should come with a "trigger warning".The new fantasy show which was released yesterday (21 August) and is a prequel to the epic series Game of Thrones, which starred Maisie Williams and Emilia Clarke. In House of Dragons, Queen Aemma (played by Sian Brooke) goes into labour while a tournament is being held in King’s Landing to celebrate her new baby, who will be an heir for King Viserys Targaryen I (Paddy Considine).
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“House of the Dragon,” told The Post that she hadn’t seen “GoT” before landing the role.“But of course, I knew about it,” she said. “I understood that it was very big and very popular. [After getting cast], I watched it to prepare.
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Emilia Clarke has received an apology after an Australia TV CEO insulted her appearance during a premiere event for the new HBO series House of the Dragon.
A TV executive has apologized after referring to "Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke as a "short, dumpy girl." Australian news outlet Crikey reported that Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany made the disparaging remarks when he addressed the audience at the premiere screening of the HBO show’s spinoff series "House of the Dragon" in Sydney, Australia on Tuesday. During his speech, the Australian television executive recalled that he was late to start watching the hit series, in which Clarke played Daenerys Targaryen, and shared his reaction to a pivotal scene in the "Game of Thrones" premiere episode.
The highest-ranking executive at Australian TV company Foxtel is apologizing after insulting “Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke at a premiere of the “GoT” prequel series, “House of the Dragon”.
, HBO's new prequel, Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany gave a short speech about the success of the original show, recalling that he was late to they hype. For whatever reason, during said speech, which was delivered in front of a room full of fellow industry professionals, Delany found it necessary to remark on star body.“I was like, ‘What’s this show with the short, dumpy girl walking into the fire?'” he told an unamused crowd at Sydney's Entertainment Quarter, according to .
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Crikey reported. The Aussie news outlet noted that the audience was audibly shocked.“It felt like he was expecting us to laugh along but people in the room were obviously shocked by it,” one partygoer told the publication, while another added: “There was a bit of a gasp.”Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who reps the Aussie Greens party, said the comment “went down like a lead balloon,” according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Zack Sharf HBO’s “Game of Thrones” prequel series “House of the Dragon” touched down in Sydney this week for its official Australian premiere, but the event quickly turned controversial after Patrick Delany, the CEO of Australian television company Foxtel, referred to Emilia Clarke as a “short, dumpy girl.” Foxtel, an Australian pay television company, is the country’s home for “Game of Thrones.”As reported by Australian publication Crikey (via Vanity Fair), Delaney was giving a speech ahead of the “House of the Dragon” premiere screening and tried to make a joke about the first time he watched “Game of Thrones.” The CEO said, “I was like, ‘What’s this show with the short, dumpy girl walking into the fire?’” Delaney was referencing Emilia Clarke’s character, Daenerys Targaryen, who famously walks through fire during the series. An attendee at the Sydney premiere told Crikey that “there was a bit of a gasp” after Delany made the comment.A Foxtel spokesperson told Crikey after the event that Delany’s remark was “meant to be self-deprecating.” The company issued a statement that reads: “The aim was to convey that for him, ‘Games of Thrones’ was something very different for television in 2011 and that Emilia Clarke went from relatively unknown to one of the most recognized and most-loved actors in television and film.“On behalf of Mr Delany, the Foxtel Group apologies if his remarks were misunderstood and caused any offense,” the statement concluded.Since “House of the Dragon” takes placed hundreds of years before “Game of Thrones,” Clarke is not involved in any capacity with the new HBO prequel series.
Australian news outlet Crikey reports that not only were people offended, but one attendee said “there was a bit of a gasp” after the comment. Another said, “It felt like he was expecting us to laugh along, but people in the room were obviously shocked by it.” A spokesperson for the company, which aired “Game of Thrones” in Australia, later apologized for Delany’s remark: “The Foxtel Group apologies if his remarks were misunderstood and caused any offense….
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