'House of the Dragon' season 2 is 'the march to war,' co-creator Ryan Condal exclusively tells EW. The stars of the hit 'Game of Thrones' prequel set the stage for the bloodbath to come.
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.The glint from a single tear sparkles against the overhead lights that bathe the battlefield in London's Blue Sky Studios — a life-sized black-and-green chess board where two monarchs seek to topple each other., representing Alicent Hightower, Rhaenyra's former childhood friend and the dowager queen mother of her usurper.
Nowadays, the actors appreciate all that response to a seemingly innocuous moment. People were clearly reacting to the natural chemistry D'Arcy and Cooke have with each other off screen as well as on. It's that instantaneous connection that still givesits fire. And even as season 2 begins to adapt sections of Martin's book that mention Rhaenyra and Alicent less and less, series writer Sara Hess affirms D'Arcy and Cooke are still very much the focus of the show.
"There's a haunted goat!" Hess eagerly reveals. So, kind of like Black Phillip from Robert Eggers' 2015 horror hit's] Overlook Hotel. It's super fun in that it's atmospheric." Hess also mentions Alys Rivers, a new character this season played by Gayle Rankin .
"Who can she trust? There's no one around her," Cooke elaborates. "Everyone, it seems, has been spying on her. It's this sense of peak paranoia within her own home. That had to really permeate throughout my performance. All of a sudden she's of no use to anyone. She's done what she was supposed to do — put her son on the throne — and now she's discarded.
Season 2 proved to be a colossal endeavor for its creator as well. In addition to expanding the backlot at Leavesden Studios in the U.K. to accommodate even more stages, the crew also had to plot a production schedule with a looming writers' strike. The Writers Guild of America officially hit the picket lines for fair wages and workplace protections in May 2023, followed shortly by a strike from the Screen Actors Guild.
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