- Emilia Clarke explained how she prevented spoilers from leaking on the set of "Secret Invasion."
- "I would just take my SIM card out of my phone," she said.
Emilia Clarke admits she was so paranoid she would unknowingly leak spoilers about the new Disney+ Marvel series she stars in, "Secret Invasion," that she took some drastic steps to protect herself when production began.
"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 during a roundtable discussion with the rest of the cast of the show (at the 12:11 mark).
This all came after Clarke said she had a meeting with Marvel security that "terrified" her.
"I was like, 'I think a man's going to come and kill me if I say anything,'" Clarke said.
But the actor admitted that, because of that level of protection around the IP, it made things easier for her than when she was on "Game of Thrones."
"Whenever it comes up or people want to ask, you just get to be like, 'Dude, Marvel. I can't say anything,'" she said, admitting that it "just sucks" "Game of Thrones" spoilers were leaked.
Clarke, who played Daenerys Targaryen on "Game of Thrones," said that after spoilers leaked online toward the end of the hit show's run, HBO changed its entire security protocol and modeled it after Marvel.
"I was chatting with [showrunners] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] and they were like, 'Marvel. We're just learning from Marvel. Whatever Marvel's doing, we just want to do that,'" Clarke recalled. "So that became, you don't print anything — and then there was like me and Peter Dinklage being like, 'I need it on paper! I can't learn my lines without it being on paper!'"
Clarke's "Secret Invasion" costar, Samuel L. Jackson, recalled the lengths Marvel security went to when his script for one of the "Avengers" movies was leaked online.
"Someone printed out a copy of my 'Avengers' script that had my watermark on it, and put it online for sale," he said. "I was shooting in Canada and Marvel came to Canada. It had been printed in the production office. They found out who it was, dude quit, left the country. They set up a fake buy for the script, dude didn't show up. It was crazy."