Culture August 14, 2019

First trailer for Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding's new rom-com, 'Last Christmas,' is out

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Everyone has those holiday movies they watch on repeat during the holidays -- we're looking at you, "Love, Actually," "A Christmas Story" and "Die Hard" -- but the new trailer for a new romantic comedy, "Last Christmas," makes it seem as though it's ready to take its place alongside those classics.

"Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke and "Crazy Rich Asians" standout Henry Golding star in the romantic comedy, which was directed by "Bridesmaids'" Paul Feig and co-written by Emma Thompson of "Love, Actually," who also appears as Clarke's mom in the new movie.

The Emmy-nominated Clarke plays Kate, who works -- hardly -- as an elf in a seasonal Christmas shop in London run by Golding's "Crazy Rich Asians" co-star Michelle Yeoh.

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"I have nicknamed her Lazy the Elf, because she never works," Yeoh's character says.

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By chance, Kate runs into Golding's Tom -- and runs into him again and again. He's a soup kitchen volunteer who Kate jokes should have "saint" tattooed on his forehead, and to Kate, he's too good to be true.

"Are elves always this cynical?" he asks.

"Relentlessly," she snarks. "These are dark times."

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Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding are seen in the trailer for "Last Christmas."

Kate eventually shares that she had a brush with death that shook her up -- just like Clarke, who in real life suffered near-fatal aneurysms.

"I'm just scared all the time," Kate confesses tearfully. "They just expect me to be normal and get on with life."

"There's no such thing as normal," Tom says, cradling her head in his lap. "Just being a human being is hard."

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But as you've probably guessed, the magic of the season -- together with a soundtrack populated by George Michael hits like "Last Christmas" and "Freedom" -- seems ready to help bring the unlikely pair together.

You can watch the trailer here:

The movie opens Nov. 8.