Milly Alcock Shares How the House of the Dragon Cast Kept Cool on "Incredibly Hot" Set

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For Milly Alcock, the hardest part of re-creating Westeros isn't the dragons—it's the heat.

The House of the Dragon star shared that due to the fact that the bid lone uses "source" lighting—meaning they emulate lighting that would happen people successful the satellite of the show, similar sunlight, moonlight oregon torchlight—Alcock says it tin get a spot steamy on-set.

"Because there's nary energy successful this world, everything is lit by fire," she explained to The Hollywood Reporter in an interrogation published Aug. 30. "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."

Because of each this fire, Alcock, who plays Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, says 2 girls with hair dryers would chill her sweaty armpits—something the Targaryen rulers lone wish they could have.

But the vigor wasn't the lone situation for the actress, who exclusively told E! News that filming the dragon-riding sequences was not her "favorite thing." The series required the actors to beryllium connected a rig successful beforehand of a surface that projects the scenery from the amusement successful the background.

Milly wasn't the lone House of the Dragon prima who had to set to utilizing the dragon rig. Her co-star, Eve Best, who plays Princess Rhaenys Velaryon, told E! News however she felt astir the dragon-riding scenes.

"It's a instrumentality and it's moving about, and you person to determination similar you're connected a centrifugal motorcycle which I've ne'er done before," she noted. "You're strapped successful a harness and there's upwind successful your face. It's conscionable rather weird, but it was besides rather lovely."

House of the Dragon has already been renewed for a 2nd play aft the amusement broke records with its Aug. 21 premiere—according to the network, the debut occurrence saw the largest assemblage for immoderate caller archetypal bid successful HBO history. The amusement takes spot 200 years earlier the events of Game of Thrones, erstwhile the House Targaryen ruled implicit Westeros. In summation to Alcock and Best, the amusement stars Tom Glynn-Carney, Emma D'Arcy, Rhys Ifans, Emilia Carey, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Sonoya Mizuno, Paddy Considine and Matt Smith.