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Necessary Realness: Who Slayed successful the House of the Dragon?
Emily Carey is overcoming fears 1 country astatine a time.
Before playing Alicent Hightower successful House of the Dragon, the histrion had lone appeared successful insignificant roles successful films similar Get Even and Anastasia, truthful they ne'er expected to be formed successful the Game of Thrones prequel series. "As soon arsenic I heard Game of Thrones," they told E! News Sept. 13, "I was like, 'I person nary accidental of getting it past due to the fact that that's excessively overmuch of a agelong shot.'"
And yet, the 19-year-old was formed successful 1 of the astir important roles of the series, playing the woman of King Viserys (Paddy Considine) and girl of the King's Hand Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans). "I retrieve being blown away, shocked, intimidated and perfectly petrified," Emily recalled of landing the role. "But it besides felt truthful surreal that this conscionable benignant of landed successful my lap."
Emily's anxieties astir their show were lone amplified aft receiving the archetypal scripts, which outlined the intimate scenes they'd person with Paddy. At the time, the histrion was lone 17 years old, so as they noted, they "didn't cognize what to expect."
But acting alongside Paddy proved to beryllium an enlightening acquisition for Emily, who spoke highly of the Peaky Blinders star, director Clare Kilner and intimacy coordinator Miriam Lucia.
"I retrieve being truthful incredibly scared, truthful nervous," Emily said, explaining however moving with an intimacy coordinator successful a harmless situation enactment them astatine ease. "I sat down with Miriam and I talked about my concerns, and she brought Paddy into the speech and she brought Clare into the speech and instantly I was conscionable truthful reassured."
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Emily continued, "I'm precise appreciative that my archetypal country of this quality was with this incredible, gorgeous team."
When it came to portraying Alicent's analyzable narration with Viserys, that came much easy to Emily because, arsenic they noted, "Alicent isn't successful emotion with Viserys."
"I deliberation she has a batch of emotion for him, but she's decidedly not in love," Emily continued. "There's nary passion, there's nary desire, arsenic we saw successful occurrence four. In examination to Rhaenyra [Milly Alcock], who is conscionable truthful afloat of passionateness for the men successful her life."
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The astir hard facet of the show for Emily came erstwhile Alicent has children with King Viserys and finds herself at likelihood with Rhaenyra. "If I'm honest, it was hard to navigate that," the histrion said. "I was truthful scattered astatine first, but I deliberation those actors successful peculiar made it a batch easier. Playing alongside Paddy, helium made my occupation truthful overmuch easier."
Plus, Emily was capable to gully from idiosyncratic experience, noting that they channeled their feelings of uncertainty into their performance. "I'm not a 25-year-old pistillate playing a 30-year-old woman," they said. "At this point, I'm not adjacent playing similar a pistillate successful her 20s. I'm a kid having children, truthful the uncomfortableness that I felt arsenic an histrion played into the role."
Season 1 of House of the Dragon airs Sunday nights connected HBO and is disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max.
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