Rather a lot occurred on final night time’s Home of the Dragon, a high quality the present’s many followers have come to anticipate from HBO’s Recreation of Thrones prequel. However you need to assume most viewers gasped on the large cameo in “The Burning Mill,” that includes a personality even diehards weren’t anticipating to see.
In a brand new interview with Selection, “The Burning Mill” director Geeta Vasant Patel—who’s additionally behind the digicam for the season two finale, so think about all of the secrets and techniques she may spill—talks about a few of episode three’s most startling moments… together with that wild shock.
That features Aemond’s nude scene, the clandestine Rhaenyra-Alicent assembly, and the way Ser Criston Cole has quickly change into Home of the Dragon’s most hated character—a powerful feat contemplating he’s not even a Targaryen. However Patel additionally had some insights into that startling cameo, that includes the very acquainted face of Milly Alcock, who performed younger Rhaenyra in season one.
Having simply fled Dragonstone for Harrenhal after a bitter argument together with his spouse—the older Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy)—Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) was not anticipating to run into household within the fort’s gloomy ruins. However Harrenhal has a means of preying on a troubled thoughts…
“I had by no means labored with Milly within the first season, in order that was fascinating,” Patel informed Selection. “When she and Matt got here in, the very first thing we talked about was their intimacy and the way a lot they trusted one another with one another’s emotions. The following a part of it was getting within Daemon’s head, as a result of, up till this level, he has been accountable for killing somebody however hasn’t processed it. The rationale for this scene was for Daemon to truly confront himself and see himself within the mirror.”
Within the temporary scene, Daemon encounters a younger Rhaenyra, who’s busily stitching Jaehaerys Targaryen’s head again onto his tiny physique. It’s a ugly visualization of… properly, lots that’s been weighing on Daemon’s thoughts. “At all times coming and going, aren’t you,” she says. “And I’ve to wash up afterwards.”
Rhaenyra’s ethereal look ends there, however it’s only one piece of the psychological pie that’ll proceed hitting Daemon within the face in season two. “The entire season is a stage of remedy for Daemon,” Patel continued. “He’s been operating so quick, he’s by no means actually stopped to really feel issues. When she turns and appears at him, I needed to ensure that with out phrases he could be confronted as a result of she’s seeing him and is aware of him. What Matt did so fantastically is he allowed himself to really feel in that second. I keep in mind being in tears after we had been taking pictures that, as a result of the way in which that Matt portrayed Daemon’s ache as she checked out him, I felt the regret and remorse—which we don’t see in Daemon fairly often.”
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