Emilia Clarke Would Love to Return to Broadway: ‘I Have This Dream About Doing Sweet Charity’ (Exclusive)

Emilia Clarke is ready to share her dream role. 

The British actress-producer, 39, sings in the jazz-infused Next Life, which was unveiled at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday, June 5. Asked at the premiere about a possible role on Broadway in a musical, Clarke says, “I would love to, I would absolutely love to.”

The Game of Thrones Emmy nominee made her Broadway debut in a 2013 production of the play Breakfast at Tiffany’s. A classic musical, however, would be Clarke’s choice for testing out her vocals live onstage. 

“I have this dream about doing Sweet Charity,” Clarke tells PEOPLE with a laugh. “That’s pretty much it. Or any Fosse musical.”

Sweet Charity, from Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, and Neil Simon, was famously directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse in its 1966 Broadway premiere. A hit screen adaptation in 1969 starring Shirley MacLaine popularized the titular role, hopeless romantic Charity Hope Valentine. The show’s third and most recent Broadway revival, in 2005, starred Christina Applegate in the lead role. 

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Clarke previously called her Broadway debut as Holly Golightly a “catastrophic failure,” telling the BBC in 2022, “Was I ready? No, I was definitely not ready. I was a baby. I was so young and so inexperienced.” She made her debut in London’s West End in a 2020 production of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.

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Now showing off her musical chops in writer-director Drake Doremus’ Next Life, Clarke tells PEOPLE the movie “came together in this perfect last minute sort of rush.” The sci-fi romance drama, about a woman named Ivy (played by Clarke) navigating two parallel universes with different love interests, costars Édgar Ramírez and Jack Farthing.

“I never expected it to be as amazing as it was, but it’s a movie I’ll remember forever,” Clarke says of her experience on set. 

Ramírez and Farthing are “such charming boys,” she adds. “Everyone just got on so well and it was such a short amount of time that we were filming — it was kind of like being at sleepaway camp.”

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Next Life does not yet have a release date following its Tribeca Festival premiere. After this January’s Peacock series Ponies, Clarke includes among her other upcoming projects the horror film When Darkness Loves Us and the crime drama series Criminal.

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