ESQUIRE – Years ago, when I was a grad student, I worked at an ice cream shop in Oxford called George & Davis’. Students from Teddies, one of the local private schools just up the road, used to come in all the time. One of them was Emilia Clarke.

She’s twenty-eight now, one of the stars of Game of Thrones, the mother not just of dragons but of John Connor in the latest Terminator movie, and Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive. It’s Sunday lunchtime. I was supposed to be taking my kids to Legoland. But I’m not—I’m going to interview Emilia.

My taxi pulls up at a house in Hampstead, an inner London suburb. Academics and writers used to live there. Now only bankers and lawyers and movie stars can afford it—you hear a lot of American accents on the street. Emilia’s house is part of a beautiful Georgian “terrace” (English for a section of row houses) with long front lawns, pretty pastel-colored stucco walls, big windows you can step out of. It’s just across the road from Hampstead Heath: eight hundred acres of hills, hedgerows, and countryside in the middle of London.

The weather is classic English summer’s day. It rained the night before, it will rain later that evening, but at lunchtime there’s a kind of chilly truce and the overcast sky has a certain brightness to it. Emilia comes out of the house to meet me—the buzzer isn’t working, and she shouts instructions apologetically from the doorstep as I fumble with the garden gate. She’s wearing dark jeans and low cowboy boots and a cloud-soft and cloud-colored cashmere top.

“I’m sorry if I’m shouting,” she tells me. “I was at a Metallica concert last night.”

Be sure to check in the gallery, the beautiful outtakes from the Esquire related photoshoot! Emilia looks SPLENDID! She’s just so so gorgeous! Scans from the issue will be added as soon as I get my hands on it. Enjoy these for now:

Thanks to my amazing friend Mouza, HQ digital scans of the latest issue of British GQ (October 2015) featuring Emilia as Woman of the Year have been added to the gallery! She looks great in this new photoshoot, be sure to check it out!

Updated the gallery adding some new outtakes from and old portrait of Emilia taken during TIFF 2013, and some from more recent photoshoots such as The Hollywood Reporter, MTV News, Terminator Genisys Promotional and ZEIT magazine. Also, added digital scans from Vanidades Argentina – July 23 issue – and Grazia Italia – July 08 issue – (with thanks to Annie!). Enjoy :)

Added in the gallery, some magazine scans, Terminator Genisys related. An interview/article on Emilia for Fabric Magazine, and HD scans from the digital issues of Entertainment Weekly (July 10-17, thanks to Luciana) and Best Movie Italy (July, thanks to Claudia). Enjoy!

Emilia is featured in the July issue of American Way. Digital scans from the magazine have now been added to the gallery, ejoy!

Emilia is featured in the latest issue (July 04) of IO Donna (an italian magazine). Scans from the magazine have been added in the gallery, but they will be replaced with better quality ones as soon as I’ll get my hands on the issue on Sunday. Enjoy the beauty in the meantime: