Milly Alcock and Fabien Frankel spoke to E! News astir the behind-the-scenes enactment they did to hole for their House of the Dragon roles.
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Milly Alcock is a pistillate of galore talents.
The 22-year-old histrion went from washing dishes to starring successful the overmuch anticipated Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon. And portion her acquisition moving successful a edifice has served her well, Milly had to larn a lot—like dragon-riding, sword-fighting and royal etiquette—to play the white-haired princess.
Now, Milly tin telephone herself a existent Targaryen, having mastered the Valyrian language—but not without immoderate help. The histrion recalled the galore hours she spent moving with a dialect coach, exclusively telling E! News, "We conscionable repeated and repeated and repeated until I didn't person to deliberation astir what I was saying."
This doesn't see the clip Milly spent learning the scripts, which she past translated from English to precocious Valyrian. In different words, Milly was an A-plus student.
Milly wasn't unsocial successful her studies either! Her co-star Fabien Frankel was schooled successful the creation of horseback riding, which was arguably much grueling enactment than Milly's homework.
"We spell to this spot called The Devil's Horseman, which is similar an astonishing aged British institution," Fabien told E! News. "They've been teaching actors to thrust for similar 150 years. They taught maine to thrust and to combat with a morningstar, which is similar a bull with spikes connected it, which is an incredibly unsafe weapon."
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The really hard portion came erstwhile the stars had to movie their scenes though.
Milly wasn't a immense instrumentality of the root lighting employed connected the House of the Dragon set, arsenic it made her incredibly sweaty. "Because there's nary energy successful this world, everything is lit by fire," she precocious told The Hollywood Reporter. "So each the lighting that you spot successful the amusement would person radical that travel astir and airy everything connected occurrence and the acceptable would get incredibly hot. I would get truly sweaty and basal similar this (extends arms) with 2 girls with hairsbreadth dryers."
She jokingly added, "It was each precise glamorous."
New episodes of House of the Dragon air Sundays connected HBO.
--Reporting by Leanne Aguilera
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