- Emilia Clarke and Samuel L. Jackson star in Marvel's new series, "Secret Invasion."
- Clarke said she nearly ran Jackson over with a car while filming on set.
Emilia Clarke almost ran over her "Secret Invasion" costar, Samuel L. Jackson, while filming the new Marvel series.
Clarke recalled the incident in a joint interview with costar Ben Mendelsohn for Yahoo Entertainment published Friday, two days after "Secret Invasion" premiered on Disney+.
"I nearly ran him over," Clarke said. "They put me in a Lada, which is like a very old Russian car. I got in and I was like, 'Hey, what's with the six [shift knobs] up in here? Which one am I using? Why does it have 10 pedals?'"
Clarke then likened the Lada to a tractor and acknowledged that she didn't have enough time to learn the controls.
"I know how to drive. I know how to drive stick," Clarke said, adding that there wasn't "enough time."
"They're saying, 'We've gotta go. We're shooting. Come on honey. Just go,'" Clarke continued. "So I'm like, 'OK, I can do this. It's just one stop.' Get in there. We get up to it. The camera is right there. Sam is right there. And I pressed the wrong thing. I pressed the accelerator rather than the brake."
When asked how Jackson reacted, Clarke said he was "very gentlemanly and lovely and nice," but she responded much differently.
"Then I cried a little bit and someone else drove it for me," she said.
"Secret Invasion" is a six-episode TV miniseries that follows Nick Fury (Jackson) and Talos (Mendelsohn) as they attempt to stop the Skrulls, extraterrestrial shapeshifters who've infiltrated "the highest spheres of the Marvel universe." The series also stars Olivia Colman, Cobie Smulders, Don Cheadle, and Kingsley Ben-Adir.
Recently, Clarke revealed that she took extra precautions to avoid accidentally leaking "Secret Invasion" spoilers while filming.
"I was told that if you took a picture of yourself in your hotel room at a certain time fans can figure stuff out, so literally the first couple of days I would just take my SIM card out of my phone," Clarke told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Wednesday.