Emilia Clarke To Play Oscar Wilde’s Wife In Sophie Hyde’s ‘An Ideal Wife’

Actress Emilia Clarke after leading HBO’s massively popular “Game of Thrones” series, has been dabbling in other big genre projects such as “Solo: A Star Wars Story” and will be seen next year in Marvel’s big Skrull event streaming series “Secret Invasion.” However, it looks like Clarke is seeking more dramatic work with one of her next projects, which happens to be a biopic surrounding the life of an iconic literary figure.

A report from Variety has announced that Clarke has been tapped to play famed Irish writer Oscar Wilde’s wife, Constance Lloyd, who was also an author from Ireland. The film titled “An Ideal Wife” hails film filmmaker Sophie Hyde (“Good Luck To You, Leo Grande”), but we’re still waiting on the exact plot details of the drama and who’ll end up playing Wilde. However, we have some idea of the events they could be exploring in “An Ideal Wife.”

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The film is said to “shed light on Lloyd, who was an author and feminist activist who took part in the dress reform movement, which campaigned to allow women to dress in comfortable clothing rather than the stifling Victorian dresses of the era.”

While Llyod and Wilde married and had two sons, it was a marriage of convenience as homosexuality was still a crime during this time, and appearing to be straight was very important for public figures. This led many gay men and women to couple up and have children to keep up the image of having a straight family life. Wilde would end up earning a two-year prison term for his homosexuality, and it sadly wouldn’t be decriminalized in England until 1967. She would eventually move herself and the two boys to Switzerland to distance herself from the writer, and certainly sounds like interesting fodder for a dramatic story.