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Emilia Clarke Is Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive 2015

She is “gorgeous balance,” physical perfection

Oct 14, 2015 00:41 GMT  ·  By
Emilia Clarke strikes a moody, smoldering pose for Esquire Magazine
   Emilia Clarke strikes a moody, smoldering pose for Esquire Magazine

Emilia Clarke’s highly anticipated stint as Sarah Connor on the “Terminator” reboot might not have worked out as she thought it would (rumor has it “Genysis” isn’t getting the 2 sequels planned because of underwhelming ticket sales), but she still managed to have a spectacular year.

After she was honored with the Woman of the Year title by GQ, she’s now being crowned the Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire magazine. Such a distinction obviously comes with a photospread to prove her credentials, which is available at the link.

“Game of Thrones” puts Emilia on the map

Before playing one of the strongest female characters in film, Sarah Connor, Emilia showed up on the map as Daenerys Targaryen aka the Mother of Dragons in HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Hiding under a blonde wig and wearing very revealing clothes (if at all) on the first season of the acclaimed series, Emilia soon became a fan favorite.

She tells Esquire that she was nervous about doing those revealing scenes, but she bit the bullet and did them anyway because the job came just as the year she’d given herself to make it as an actress had ended. In other words, it was a now or never type of situation.

Since then, she’s become a stronger presence on the scene, with her profile receiving a huge boost. Today, Emilia is a bona-fide celebrity but also a fashion girl.

Emilia is the perfect combination of sweet and dangerous

However, it’s her versatility, her sweet nature and the ability to perfectly mix contrasts that earn her this title from Esquire, the magazine says.

“She manages to bring together a number of opposites, to make them natural: sweetness and toughness, emotionalism with a kind of cold-blooded determination.  Something in these contrasts explains her sex appeal, too. She can play queen and kid sister, dominatrix and pal.”

The accompanying photospread is unlike anything Emilia has done so far and definitely unlike her public image. It shows her in a series of black-and-white portraits, dressed in retro-style lingerie or only a white sheet, smoldering for the camera.

It’s clear that the young Emilia who needed breaks on the set of GoT season 1 so she could cry in the bathrooms ahead of a more revealing scene is gone, replaced by this confident woman.