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‘Done with dragons’: Ponies takes Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke’s career in new direction

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Emilia Clarke plays a fledgling spy in Ponies, a Cold-War era drama that takes her career in a new direction.

Emilia Clarke plays a fledgling spy in Ponies, a Cold-War era drama that takes her career in a new direction.

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LONDON – For the first time since the hit HBO fantasy series Game Of Thrones ended in 2019, Emilia Clarke is playing the lead in a television series.

In the Cold War-era drama Ponies, which is showing on HBO Max, she stars as Bea, the wife of an intelligence agent who abruptly becomes a spy herself.

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