Emilia Clarke will play Joe McCarthy’s wife in biopic

In the upcoming biopic film McCarthy, Emilia Clarke will play Jean Kerr, the wife of famed US senator Joseph McCarthy. The story of McCarthy, a former marine turned US senator, is followed throughout the film as he rises to popularity. McCarthy is most known for leading the so-called ‘red scare’ in the 1950s and for broadcasting dozens of inquisitions of celebrities and stars accused of selling secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. McCarthyism, as it was called, was a controversial period in American history, with everyone.