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00:00♪♪

00:01Duty is sacrifice.

00:05It eclipses all things, even blood.

00:11In the making of season one,

00:12we knew half that season is a prologue

00:14and half of it is the first act of this war.

00:16To have season one land the way it did

00:18with a rabid audience,

00:20fans of George and his books the way I am,

00:23we were excited to get into it

00:24because this is the juicy part of the drama.

00:28♪♪

00:32The North owes a great duty to the Seven Kingdoms,

00:36one older than any oath.

00:38Winterfell is the one place,

00:40the one corner of this world

00:41where news of Luke's death has not yet reached,

00:44and it is this hearkening back to a simpler time.

00:48I wanted to go to a place

00:50where we could experience that, if only briefly,

00:53and the North just felt completely the right way to go.

00:56Ryan, when we did speak, it really, really helped me out

00:58because we would have conversations

01:01about how important these negotiations are for Team Black

01:04and the difference it makes in the war.

01:07War is coming to the whole of the realm, my lord.

01:11We cannot wage it without the support of the North.

01:13Well, it was all about history.

01:14There were pledges that were made back in the day,

01:17and Jace is sent to remind Craig and Stark of those pledges.

01:22If your Greybeards can fight, the Queen will have them.

01:25They will fight hard, like Northerners.

01:30Rhaenyra heard the news that Luke has died

01:33on a mission that she sent him on,

01:34so there's guilt involved,

01:36and she's a mother who's lost a son

01:39and has to go through a certain necessary grieving process

01:42that Daemon, her husband,

01:44can't really appreciate or understand.

01:46She goes and tries to make peace with Luke's demise,

01:49but she cannot settle in it because it is unsettled business

01:51until part of Aryx washes ashore.

01:54Going in search of evidence

01:57is fundamentally important to her.

02:00I guess one of the sort of maddest things about death

02:04is that it seems sort of impossible,

02:06especially because really the overriding feeling often

02:08is you just sit with the absence,

02:10and so anything that has like a tangibility about it,

02:13I think is vitally important.

02:15Her son's cloak, the wing of his dragon,

02:18I think it's devastating,

02:20but I think it galvanizes a vengeful feeling,

02:24one that maybe she hasn't paid so much mind to previously.

02:32I think that Rhaenys is probably one of the few people

02:34that Daemon knows he can't mess with,

02:36although I suspect probably wants to.

02:40We're going to King's Landing.

02:41To what end?

02:42Killing Vhagar.

02:44When those two meet, it's kind of like a panther

02:47meets a kind of electric eel.

02:50Really dangerous combination.

02:53He's essentially ready to go to war and get payback.

02:57It was nice to throw those characters

02:58into conflict with one another.

03:00I think you can tell from even her demeanor

03:03the way Rhaenys thinks of Daemon.

03:05Daemon believes that he's, of course,

03:07completely in the right and has the power

03:09to order Rhaenys around.

03:10Fly with me.

03:13It is a command.

03:14Would that you were the king.

03:17Where is Jaehaerys?

03:18What do you need of him?

03:20Take him into the small council.

03:22He'll be king one day.

03:23He must begin his instruction.

03:24But if he does not want to be king, where is he?

03:29One of the things I loved about Game of Thrones

03:31was character humor.

03:32And we can spend a lot of time being dour in this world

03:35and it's so important to have humor.

03:36And when I first saw what Tom Glynn Carney

03:38was doing with Aegon, I thought,

03:39he's finding humor where I didn't know it existed.

03:41And it's painful, a guy who's way in over his head

03:43who really wants to do well,

03:45but just can't make a right move,

03:47no matter what he does.

03:50Aegon the Magnanimous.

03:52Hail King Aegon.

03:55The Magnanimous?

03:58I think Aegon is the kind of father

04:00that encourages bad behavior because he finds it funny.

04:03He loves his kids, I have no doubt about that.

04:06He loves his kids dearly.

04:07But he's not one to discipline them.

04:10If anything, he's having competitions with his children

04:13to see who can be the most rebellious.

04:15And Aegon often wins.

04:17Would someone please?

04:18Is the heir to the throne bothering you, Tyland?

04:21We see him come into a small council meeting

04:22with Jaehaerys and, you know, he's spurring him on.

04:26He's wanting him to be more of a rebel,

04:30more of a nuisance, just like his old man.

04:33I think he wants a ride.

04:35Your grace.

04:36A ride?

04:37A pony ride.

04:38Wouldn't that be fun, Jaehaerys?

04:39Should the master of coin be your royal steed?

04:43It's meant to be a moment of fun, a bit.

04:45And yes, Aegon brings his four-year-old to work.

04:48But I think on a perhaps nuanced character level,

04:50this is the thing that Viserys never did for Aegon.

04:53And Aegon did not study at the feet of his father.

04:55His father had his male heir and then essentially said,

04:57well, that box is ticked.

04:59He was ill.

04:59I think he enjoyed having a son,

05:01but didn't put in the work the way he did with Rhaenyra

05:03when he was a younger man.

05:04And I think Aegon resents that and feels

05:07that part of the reason that he's not seen

05:09as being suited for the crown or the throne

05:12is because he didn't get that training from his father

05:15so now he's going to make up for that tenfold with Jaehaerys.

05:21Alicent's been in a marriage that was loving,

05:23but not exactly romantic or physical for quite some time.

05:27Cole has got a lot of issues.

05:29One thing I love about the character

05:30is that he is a knight in shining armor

05:32and sort of classically handsome

05:33and probably the most messed up person

05:35in the story in many ways.

05:37Clinging to notions of purity and duty

05:39and just flagrantly breaking them left and right.

05:42So there's a lot of complex things driving the moves,

05:44the closer and closer between Alicent and Cole.

05:47And it takes a leap forward,

05:48but nothing is simple with them.

05:49So for every leap forward, there's a pushback.

05:51We cannot.

05:53Again.

05:54There's a lot of wonderful tension there.

05:56I mean, I think there's love,

05:57but there's a lot of mess too.

05:59I'm Grace.

06:01Good day.

06:02I think ultimately they're two very lost people

06:06in a pretty unforgiving world.

06:09And I think there's always been,

06:12you know, since the very first episode,

06:13Alicent, you know, had her eye on Kristen Cole

06:16and then she was a young lady

06:18and now she's the queen of the Seven Kingdoms.

06:22It's paramount that she keeps it a secret

06:24because not only would her respect completely disintegrate,

06:29but her stay in the castle and Aegon is so unpredictable,

06:34who knows what he would do if he found out

06:36that his mother was having sex

06:38with his commander of the Kingsguard.

06:41I mean, not only is it an embarrassment,

06:43it would bring deep, deep shame.

06:50I want Aemond Targaryen.

06:54Rhaenyra has literally one line in the first episode.

06:56And the one line she says,

06:58Daemon takes as a pulling the trigger.

07:01In our first episode, we see him unleash something

07:03that is sort of famous in the lore of House of the Dragon,

07:06a nasty event that he triggers.

07:08When Rhaenyra declares that she wants Aemond,

07:12I think it's an admission of a possibly shameful desire.

07:17And I think that admission is made directly to Daemon.

07:20I think it's also an admission of their similarity.

07:23She sort of discloses another way

07:26in which they actually share a darkness.

07:30I want Aemond Targaryen becomes the battle cry

07:33that then resonates across the entire season

07:35because that is the next domino to fall

07:38in this back and forth that sets in motion

07:40a horrible attack and counterattack that continues

07:43and the atrocities grow worse and worse as they go.

07:46In our story, it's a Mizaria who has got her tentacles

07:49in every part of King's Landing,

07:50is able to provide connections for Daemon to exact revenge.

07:55I think it really is a big deal for the fans

07:56because it keeps getting referred to.

07:57And I don't know the character's actual names.

08:00They're forever in lore as blood and cheese.

08:02Who the fuck is she?

08:04She's the queen, she is.

08:06A son for a son, he said.

08:08The boldest thing that I think we did there

08:09was decide to give the last 10 minutes of the episode

08:12over to these two characters that we had never met before

08:15and rely on them to take us through the end of the story

08:18and to see, hopefully, as they go deeper and deeper

08:21into the Red Keep and as we're spending more

08:22and more screen time on them,

08:23that something horrible is going to happen in there.

08:26And knowing that you're watching Game of Thrones

08:28and you don't know what is going to come before you

08:30from where and seeing that play out,

08:32hopefully, is the fun and the horror

08:34for the audience that's yet to come.

08:36No!

08:39No!

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