N
athalie Emmanuel is
having a moment. The
30-year-old actress
barely had time to
mourn the gruesome
beheading of her character Missandei
in the final season of Game of Thrones—
“I basically cried my eyes out,” she
says—before taking on another high-
visibility role, this time a lead. She plays
a political adviser on a journey of self-
discovery in Hulu’s new 10-episode
miniseries Four Weddings and a Funer-
al, conceived by Mindy Kaling and
based on the 1994 Hugh Grant rom-
com. “When I saw that Mindy was mak-
ing this project, I knew that it would
After
Thrones
SHE MET A GRIM FATE
ON GAME OF THRONES,
BUT THIS VIBRANT—
AND VEGAN—ACTRESS
BEGINS A BRIGHT NEW
CHAPTER IN HER LIFE
By CHRISTINA DUGAN
PEOPLE August 12, 2019 61
EMMANUEL
A True Friend
“She’s really
inspiring,”
Emmanuel says
of Thrones
costar Emilia
Clarke. “She’s
such a beast.”
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