House Of The Dragon Teaser Reveals Emma D’Arcy And Olivia Cooke’s Grand Debut
Halfway through the first season of House of the Dragon, a significant change in leadership is about to occur.
After the release of episode 5 this week, Milly Alcock and Emily Carey’s time as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower appear to be coming to an end. Emma D’Arcy and?Olivia Cooke?will now formally make their debut as the adult versions of the lead characters in House of the Dragon episode 6, according to a new sneak peek teaser that was released Sunday night. They’ll probably keep those sections for the rest of the series.
Showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik revealed D’Arcy and Cooke would play the leads of House of the Dragon when casting for the Game of Thrones prequel first started to take shape in December 2020. But in an unexpected twist, Alcock and Carey were cast as younger versions of the two main characters at the start of the series.
Additionally, we were unsure of the precise length of the younger stars’ involvement in the show before Sunday’s reveal. The characters of Rhaenyra and Alicent are introduced as adults who are at odds with one another in George R.R. Martin’s Fire and Blood, which served as the inspiration for House of the Dragon.?Spending so much time with Alcock and Carey in these roles was shocking because of this.
The events of the Dance of the Dragons, a crucial civil war in Westeros history that breaks out within House Targaryen over succession, will now be a more consistent focus of House of the Dragon’s narrative. Rhaenyra is still King Viserys I Targaryen’s designated heir (Paddy Considine). However, there is dissension in Viserys’ court over the idea of a male taking the throne now that he has a son, Aegon II, with his new queen, Alicent (spoiler alert for those who haven’t been keeping up with the show!).
Condal, who along with Martin co-wrote House of the Dragon, previously discussed the significance of choosing to begin with young Rhaenyra and Alicent in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
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They are the main female characters who are both credited and blamed for starting this specific war, he said. “We were particularly interested in the dynamic forces that a certain medieval level of innate chauvinism puts on the two women because history is written by men. At its core, our show tells the tale of how a very close female friendship that started when these girls were young and impressionable fell apart.”
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