Olivia Cooke is spilling on a “carnal” and “animalistic” intercourse scene followers will seemingly by no means see.
“Game of Thrones” followers are naturally overjoyed that HBO’s prequel collection “House of the Dragon” is again, however Sunday’s return coincided with a revealing interview with Elle — wherein Cooke divulged that her most bestial intercourse scene was left on the slicing room ground.
“It was messy as fuck,” she informed the outlet. “It wasn’t beautiful, and that was really fun to do.”
“I think Ryan [Condal, the showrunner] said we weren’t learning any more about the characters, which I disagree with slightly, but it’s OK,” continued Cooke. “It’s his show.”
The actor reportedly laughed after positing the scene might find yourself on a blooper reel, suggesting it’d really by no means see the sunshine of day. For these maintaining with the present, nevertheless, Cooke’s character, Queen Alicent Hightower, is clearly nonetheless a red-blooded royal.
Hightower notably explored her carnal lust and pleasures with Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) in Sunday’s Season 2 premiere and, as a younger mom of three who married her buddy’s father, Viserys Targaryen, as a baby, by no means acquired to have a flirtatious youth herself.
“I think for her, it represents teenagedom,” she informed Elle. “It’s passion. She’s never had that.”
“I thought there’d be way more,” she added about her intercourse scenes within the present, “and so I’m relieved that when it has been used for me, it’s showing Alicent being pleasured, which is amazing and doesn’t feel gratuitous. It feels like we’re telling a story.”
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“Dragon” premiered three years after the contentious finale of “Game of Thrones,” each of that are primarily based on the “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels by George RR Martin. The sexual violence, in the meantime, is notably much less egregious within the prequel collection than in “Thrones.”
Former co-showrunner Miguel Sapochnik informed The Hollywood Reporter forward of the primary “Dragon” season that it “pulls back” from intercourse, however that additionally they “don’t shy away from it” — as “violence perpetrated on women by men in that time … “shouldn’t be downplayed.”
Cooke finds the anguish of her character’s crumbling friendship with Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) simply as engrossing because the two royals grew up collectively as greatest associates — just for the scheme-laden world of politics to tug them aside.
“They practiced proper adult relationships on each other,” Prepare dinner informed Elle. “When you break up with a friend, it’s so much more heartbreaking than breaking up with a lover a lot of the time, because they know every single part of you, and it’s so much more vulnerable.”
The Season 2 premiere of “House of the Dragon” is now obtainable on Max.
