“I feel so naive for saying it, but it’s like dealing with racism,” she says. Or the fact that women consistently have fewer lines than their male counterparts, even when they’re playing the “lead.” Or that actresses must arrive for hair and makeup hours before most of the male stars. “But we’ve got to be in this shit for the long game.” And for Clarke, being “in this shit” means not being OK with a lot of what goes on around her – a realization that grew and amplified “in a era where you suddenly go, ‘What do you mean my views are so vastly different from my neighbor?’ ” Like, for example, her views on being one of the few women on any given set.
“You can’t expect everyone to just stop doing their jobs and march every day of their lives,” she says of the volatile political climate. The fucking year where everything shit happened.” So, times have changed – for better and for worse. And, like the rest of us, she’s lived through Brexit and the ascendency of Trump, or, as she puts it, “ ’16. She’s graced the big screen multiple times, including opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator Genisys. She’s turned 30 (of which she says, “I was just quietly panicking”). She has, after all, now spent the bulk of her adult life embodying one of our culture’s most striking images of female domination, while eloquently explaining her onscreen nudity in broadly feminist terms. In other words, she has a way of commanding the room that seems downright Khaleesi-esque.
Even in a messy bun and frayed blue jeans, she now comes across as a sort of beacon – poised, almost glowing, a point to which all other attention can’t help but be drawn. Four years later, Clarke has maintained her hallmarks – wry humor and ample good will, among them – but it’s clear we’re in another realm.
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