Why 'House of Dragon' separated the older and younger actors for Alicent and Rhaenyra

When audiences tune into HBO Max’s Game of Thrones aftereffect House of the Dragon next time, there will be a few changes. The two actors, Emily Carey and Milly Alcock, who portrayed the adolescent frenemies, Queen Alicent Hightower and Princess Rhaenyra respectively, have been adapting as the appearance time all-overs a decade advanced for its sixth episode.

Olivia Cooke will now booty over the role of the Queen and Emma D’Arcy will be arena the Princess. While they are arena the aforementioned characters at altered stages of their lives, the producers absitively they didn’t choose the pairs to accommodate all through production.

Alcock informed Reuters, “There was once no baton to move on to. I didn’t allege to Emma. I have alone met them a few times, which is why this accomplished acquaintance has been so weird, actuality like ‘Oh we comedy the aforementioned person, about I’ve never really met you’.”

Confirming these stipulations, Carey answered at the House of the Dragon premiere “It was once an array of fabricated actual bright pretty bound which it was once a best and not an abstract which we hadn’t met and I anticipate what it is, is which in 10 years you change a large amount, abnormally while you’re seeing addition go from little girls into absolutely fledged women, there’s a large amount of alteration which happens. It was once about like we were arena two altered characters, two very, actual altered people.”

Cooke, however, was once blind in which the pairs of actors weren’t declared to collaborate with one another, admitting filming at the aforementioned time, and answered she had talked to them at times. She alone abstruse about the adjustment at the Hollywood premiere.

“I alone heard which they were informed to break abroad from us and I and Emma never got the announcement to break abroad from them, so we were alone like ‘Oh my god, how are you award it? What’s activity on?’ and maybe which was once really bad for their process.”

D'Arcy recently spoke about how she did her own stunts and enjoyed the process in the series. Elaborating on the same, she said, "I did a bit of stunt work, and at first, I was sort of cocky about it because I like a challenge."

The preparations for the show unfolded right in the thick of the pandemic when everything was shut down including the gyms. Hence, these stunts came across as a shock to her system. "And then we went in to work with the team - and this was right in the middle of the pandemic, and needless to say, the gym hadn't been open - it was a shock to the system," she said. 

But nevertheless, she enjoyed the process as it opened up her perspective on a lot of things, "But you know it was great. It's amazing to do these things and work with these incredible people. There you are, wielding a long sword and being given expert advice on how to do it. I enjoyed it."

The 10-episode series also stars Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Alcock, Carey, Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Sonoya Mizuno, Fabien Frankel, and Rhys Ifans. The show continues to deepen in bitter rivalries, jealousy, lust, the quest for power, and betrayal to destroy the Targaryen dynasty. Directed by Miguel Sapochnik, Clare Kilner, Geeta Vasant Patel, and Greg Yaitanes, House of the Dragon is available to stream on HBO Max.

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