Emilia Clarke Joins the Cast of McCarthy

Emilia Clarke has landed a new role! The actress is set to join Michael Shannon, Dane DeHaan, and Scoot McNairy in McCarthy.

McCarthy is a biopic on Joseph McCarthy, the man behind anti-communist doctrine McCarthyism to understand what drove a lawyer and decorated former U.S. Marine down an unprecedented path of demagoguery, show-trials and venomous populism.

Emilia is set to play McCarthy’s politically ambitious wife Jean Kerr; DeHaan will play his ruthless young lawyer Roy Cohn. Production is slated to begin in the Fall of 2022 in Prague and the U.S.