Game of Thrones stars are busy. With what? We’ll tell you.
First up, we have a trailer for Josie, which stars Sophie Turner (Sansa) as a mysterious young woman who blows into a small southern town and, by the looks of it, stirs up trouble. Have a watch:
It’s hard to be sure just from the trailer, but I am…not entirely convinced by Turner’s take on a southern American accent. Maybe I’ve just spent too much time watching her on Game of Thrones, but I can hear the Britishisms coming out.
Still, the movie looks intriguing. Josie hits theaters on March 16.
Turner isn’t the only Game of Thrones alumnus working on her film career. Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) will soon hit the big screen as Qi’Ra in Solo: A Star Wars Story. This is obviously a big project for Clarke; she talked about what fans can expect to Entertainment Weekly. Qi’Ra is an old pal of Han Solo’s, and a bit of “an enigma.”
Every time you think you have got her number you realize you haven’t at all. [Laughs] Which is really hard to play. The goal is that the shadow of Qi’Ra is there in Han as a character that we know. This girl is another texture that makes up who he is when we first meet him…They are both doing what they’ve got to do to survive. And that is Qi’Ra the whole movie. The whole way through, she is surviving. And surviving in the underworld that we know to be [filled with] smuggling, aloof gamblers, wrong-side-of-the-tracks nasty ones…[I]f you have got a really glamorous lady in a really sordid environment you kind of know that maybe the glamour is hiding a few rough roads.
Thus far, the images we’ve gotten of Qi’Ra have shown her doing everything from riding shotgun and smiling as Han guns a speeder to walking regally outside a spaceship wearing a black-and-red gown that wouldn’t look out of place on Daenerys Targaryen. Check out the trailer:
Solo: A Star Wars Story comes out on May 25.
Finally, the Winter Olympics start today! And like everybody else on Earth, the athletes are fans of Game of Thrones. TIME talked to several U.S. Olympians, including curling team member Nina Roth, biathlete Susan Dunklee and ice dancer Zach Donohue, about who they want to rule Westeros when everything is said and done:
Sure, a few too many of them call Daenerys “Khaleesi,” but the passion is appreciated. And Arya Stark makes for a fun dark horse candidate.
The Winter Olympics are airing right now on NBC. Winter is here.
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