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Sophie Barthes’s third feature-length film arrives in theaters on August 11.
From conquering Westeros to preventing the Skrull invasion, Emilia Clarke’s characters have taken on many challenges, but it’s with her role in The Pod Generation that she’ll step into her most daunting task yet – that of an expectant mother. In a Collider exclusive, a new clip shows the very moment of the Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls, Madame Bovary) helmed film when Clarke and her co-star, Chiwetel Ejiofor, take the brave first step toward parenthood.
Ready to do business, hopeful parents Rachel (Clarke) and Alvy (Ejiofor) sit across the table from Linda (Rosalie Craig), the woman who promises to make all of their dreams come true. At the Womb Center, the trio discusses the terms of Rachel’s pregnancy and how she would like to go about it, including whether she would want Alvy to be involved in the process. In this sci-fi feature, artificial intelligence has risen to prominence, giving women the power to create their own families—that is unless it’s a boy. As the couple is posed with the question of “boy or girl,” they decide to let nature make the final decision, a choice that Linda says is an unusual one for those seeking the clinic’s services.