Rhaenyra, Alicent & Daemon in House of the Dragon season 2
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary House of the Dragon season 2 has finally arrived, picking up after an explosive finale last year. With the conflict between the Greens and Blacks firmly established, there's now a full-blown war brewing for the throne. Almost the entire cast has returned, including Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen, Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen, Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, and Fabien Frankel as Criston Cole.
Eve Best & Steve Toussaint On Corlys and Rhaenys' Emotional Maturity Screen Rant: Your pairing is arguably the most stable and emotionally mature one on the show. What has it been like forming that dynamic for two characters where the whole world is so chaotic, where they are trying to remain healthy and normal together?
Steve Toussaint: Well Corlys, he makes that same mistake for at least six or seven episodes of season one. And then when he comes back from his almost fatal wounding, he's kind of like, "Oh, it was my ambition that caused all of this. Let's stop." But do you remember the speech that you did in episode 1 when there's the big jousting? And you talk about something like, "These boys have never been to war, and they're bashing each other's heads in.
Matthew Needham Teases Larys Character Growth & Big Conflicts Screen Rant: Online, I've seen a lot of fans comparing Larys and Littlefinger from Game of Thrones when it comes to his adeptness at royal manipulation. Do you consider the characters to be similar? And I was excited to do that this series, to see him really having to think. Because he fails a lot, and the board is sort of moving. He makes a move, and it doesn't work out and you see him having to change tack and to survive, and you get more of a sense of how his brain works and what he's made of. So that I was excited to explore, because it's much more fun to play against obstacles.
Matthew Needham: His family in the first series, Harwin was a big obstacle, because Highwind would just protect him, and they were like a sort of block to his life. So eradicating them was like shedding his skin. Though there hasn't really been anyone standing in his way, but that's about change in a big way. There's lots of people standing in his way in this series, and you see him having to navigate around them.
Ewan Mitchell: Maybe. I think there was certainly a romantic element of it for Aemond. I think he thinks about what a young Daemon Targaryen would want, and that's what he would want as well. There's this idea, Daemon was this close to getting Aemond. He set up Blood and Cheese into the Red Keep to find Aemond. It's like your biggest hero, he really wants to kill you, but he can't or he's too afraid to do it himself.
Ewan Mitchell: Yeah, I love the moments of silence in film and TV, letting the audience project their own kind of theory on things and their own story. I love that it's similar to answering all the questions. If you answer all of them, then everyone will stop asking the questions, and so I like to leave those little seeds out there. I think that's interesting, because Aemond, he's thinking.
So we can tell a narrative in real-time without having to backfill a bunch of information, so that naturally the pace of the story and the shorthand of it can really start moving its feet. I think you'll see that right out of the first episode, and that's an incredibly freeing place to be, I think, as a writer and a storyteller, because it really lets you move the narrative along at quite a pace.
This season also introduces a lot of really pivotal characters, including a link to the Stark family. When you were adapting that character for the show, what were the most important elements of Cregan that you wanted to make sure came through from the books? Olivia Cooke: For sure. I think Alicent has really weakened herself by submitting to Criston. I think she was almost this deity for him, and now the mystique is sort of over when you have sex with someone and when you embark on a relationship.
Matt Smith & Fabien Frankel Reflect On Their Characters' Inner Demons Screen Rant: Fabien, I am curious if you feel like there's been any shift in the power balance between Alicent and Ser Criston Cole because of the change in their relationship. It makes him question himself, it makes him question his life, and his brother, and his wife, and his grief, and that's what got ahold of him. You could just put that line of words into one word, which is grief. And as it goes on, there's a mysticism that takes hold in a way.
Matt Smith: Yeah, don't worry, you're only talking to four prominent journalists. What's weighing on your character the most this season? The fact you're about to give the f***ing story away. Criston Cole is in Westeros now going, "Shut the f*** up!" You mentioned how Jace has a very single-minded revenge sort of mindset going on. Do you feel like it's not just rooted in anger, but perhaps also almost feeling a form of responsibility after his brother's passing?
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