“Home of the Dragon”‘s first episode lacks the express incest followers may affiliate with “Sport of Thrones” typically and the Targaryens specifically, but it surely does embody one very unsettling scene between Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock) and her uncle Prince Daemon (Matt Smith) the place he presents her a necklace and places it round her neck. Alcock and Smith each communicate to POPSUGAR concerning the scene and Daemon’s function within the Targaryen dynasty.
“Matt’s unimaginable. He is such a beneficiant actor,” Alcock says of her costar. “We additionally needed to communicate in Excessive Valyrian. In order that added a complete new layer of enjoyable and mischief to play with.”
“However I wished to verify with Rhaenyra that she wasn’t conscious of what she was feeling and she or he wasn’t totally conscious of what this attraction meant to her as a result of she hadn’t skilled love or intercourse but,” Alcock explains. “So she did not know what was happening, however one thing was undoubtedly happening, and she or he’s unaware. So I hope that me and Matt left fairly an ambiguous scene.”
Smith additionally complimented Alcock and Emma D’Arcy, who performs the older model of Rhaenyra later within the season. “I feel that casting has labored so effectively,” he says. As for the scene, he explains, “You need to carry a way of authenticity to the scene. You need to honor what’s written and honor what George had in thoughts. And that is what we each attempt to do. And that is what we’ll proceed to do because the season goes ahead.”
Smith mentioned he was drawn to play Daemon as a result of there’s an “ambiguity to him.” He explains, “I feel Daemon may fairly simply be one factor, and I used to be eager about attempting to subvert that, and I believed there was a wierd fragility to him.”
“And I used to be actually within the relationship together with his brother,” Smith explains. Taking part in with Paddy Considine, who performs King Viserys, was additionally one thing that excited him concerning the half. “I feel all the things Daemon does is form of . . . [because] he needs consideration together with his brother,” he says. “And equally, his brother’s the king. So it is given him this freedom to do what the eff he needs, and he is aware of that nobody’s going to cease him as a result of he is aware of deep down, his brother loves him fairly deeply and he’ll by no means chop his head off. So Daemon simply pushes the boundaries always.”
How that boundary pushing performs out in his relationship together with his niece Rhaenyra, followers should wait and see.
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