Emilia Clarke‘s Vanity Fair profile is the gift that keeps giving and she was super candid in the interview suggesting that Phil Lord and Chris Miller had made an uncertain, chaotic set for “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (which she said was rescued by Ron Howard and Lucasfilm), and given some details on the final season of “Game Of Thrones” which she’s suggested is shocking.
But in discussing troubled projects with Vanity Fair and ‘Solo,’ she segued to the critically reviled “Terminator: Genisys” film that sounds like an even bigger mess.
Lastly, I do love this last line about the men she has dated, two of them including comedian “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane and her “Terminator Genisys” co-star Jai Courtney. “The guys that I’ve met in my life that are dicks, I voluntarily walk the fuck away from them,” she said. “That’s just bad taste. People shouldn’t know about those choices.”
Here’s the part in question which sounds like a miserable experience. And poor former “Game Of Thrones” director Alan Taylor who’s had two horrible Hollywood experiences in a row given he was locked out of the editing room in “Thor: The Dark World” by Marvel. Clarke was even “relieved” when ‘Genisys’ tanked and she knew she wouldn’t have to come back for more films, ouch.
Solo wasn’t the first troubled blockbuster to test Clarke’s resilience. If anything, the production of 2015’s Terminator Genisys was more chaotic. She watched frequent Thrones director Alan Taylor get “eaten and chewed up on Terminator. He was not the director I remembered. He didn’t have a good time. No one had a good time.” When the film underperformed at the box office, she was “relieved” to not have to return for any sequels. News of the rocky production traveled, and Clarke says the crew on the famously disastrous Fantastic Four, which was filming nearby, even had jackets made that read, AT LEAST WE’RE NOT ON TERMINATOR. “Just to give you a summary,” she says, laughing.
Kisses, guys. The next “Terminator” film, that scraps everything from ‘Genisys’ (whoops), won’t include Clarke or Courtney, is being directed by Tim Miller (“Deadpool“) and being closely overseen by franchise creator Jim Cameron.