Emilia Clarke reveals which actor made her realize she’d made it in Hollywood

Speaking of “Game of Thrones” … if you ever wondered when Emilia Clarke knew she was a bona fide famous person, The Hollywood Reporter is here with your answer. Emilia — along with Patricia Arquette, Christine Baranski, Danai Gurira and Niecy Nash — recently sat down with THR to talk about the big issues facing women in Hollywood today. Before things got serious, however, they chatted about their respective rise-to-fame situations. that’s when Emilia shared an anecdote about, as she put it “the most ridiculous experience of my entire existence.” Said Emilia: “I was at a gala event where I’d been asked to auction something, so I was like, ‘I don’t know, come watch your favorite [Game of Thrones] episode with me and we’ll eat a horse’s heart or something,'” she recalled. “I don’t think about what it is until I get there and then I’m sitting in a room with, like, every celebrity on the planet. And I thought it would be a private thing where they wouldn’t say [the item] out loud, but then I have to stand up and it turns into a thing. The room goes completely silent and I’m going to die and then one of my friends puts his paddle up. Suddenly, some other people start to put their paddles up and one of those people was Brad Pitt.” Emilia’s peers all “oooh-ed” as Emilia admitted her friend ended up winning — but not before Patricia noted, “I was there, and there was a lot of back-and-forth.”