Inside the Battle of Rook's Rest: The key 'House of the Dragon' cast and crew explain how they pulled off the show's biggest dragon fight yet, including that game-changing death.
The key cast and crew delve into the making of the Battle of Rook's Rest: "It's a pretty apocalyptic event."Nick is an entertainment journalist based in New York, NY. If you like pugs and the occasional blurry photo of an action figure, follow him on Twitter @NickARomano.“There is no war so hateful to the gods as a war between kin and no war so bloody as a war between dragons.”).
Things change once the king arrives. Aemond intentionally delays the trap, allowing Rhaenys, a much more formidable warrior and dragon rider, to rough him up. When Aemond finally does emerge, he commands Vhagar to breathe fire at both Aegon and his attacker. Rhaenys easily shakes off the attack, but Aegon and Sunfyre are hit with full force, plummeting towards the earth. A small explosion of flame erupts in the distance to mark the moment they hit the ground.
At the same time, the actor adds, “I think that maybe Aemond would never have intended to burn Aegon, but it just so happened that Aegon was there tangled with Rhaenys and Meleys when he was on top of Sunfyre. It raises the question of whether or not he would've done that or if Aegon was just collateral damage. I think that's compelling. Maybe it was when Aegon brought in the Pink Dread when Aemond was like, ‘I'm going to burn him one day for this.
For the dragon combat in the sky, Taylor’s producing partner Jane Wu mapped out the entire sequence through storyboards. They passed videos back and forth of birds of prey on the offensive. “It's very common in the predatory bird world if you're being attacked to do this maneuver where you go upside down and engage talon to talon," Taylor says. "You see these birds going into a kind of pinwheel chaotic fall. We stole that idea and applied it to Vhagar and Meleys.
“I was riding it as if it were a horse,” Glynn-Carney says of the buck. “When you're riding a horse, you neutralize the horse's movements with your body so you can stay as steady and with the rhythm of the horse as possible. But what they wanted me to do was be at the mercy of the dragon and let it throw me about.
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