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6/24/2024
House of the Dragon 2x03 Season 2 Episode 3 Trailer - Episode 203
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Soon they will not even remember what it was that began the war in the first place, when
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the desire to kill and burn takes hold.
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Reason is forgotten.
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We cannot hide in our castle waiting for war to come to us.
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Good.
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To war then.
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Alicent is in King's Landing.
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Her son sits my throne.
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There has been no word from Prince Daemon.
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We must press what advantage we do have.
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And what is that?
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Dragons.
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If dragons begin fighting dragons, we invite our own destruction.
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It will be savage beyond all comparison.
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I really love this episode.
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We're already in a very tenuous place, but there's now been the murder of a child, and
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it's meant to be a harbinger for things to come.
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This is starting to become a pure Game of Thrones story now, where everyone's struggling
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with the legacy that they've been left by their parents.
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In episode two, any kind of stability for Aegon has now been ripped out from beneath
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his feet.
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I am the king!
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We always knew that Aegon was going to get rid of that Valyrian model, and it's a really
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powerful dramatization of how there is a new sheriff in town, and Aegon's reign as king
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is very different than Viserys.
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I declare war!
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The aftermath is grief like you just never, ever want to experience.
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Aegon feels completely alone, like no one really understands or appreciates the pain
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he's in.
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And I think we see why Aegon's respect for Helene grows, because she's the only other
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person in this environment that really knows what this pain is.
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And seeing that look in Helene's eyes when they cross on the stairs, they don't say much
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to each other, but they communicate through pain.
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I think everything's just so traumatic at that moment that for Helene, time stands still.
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I think the noise and everything goes under the radar for her.
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I think she's feeling it in the most raw and visceral way, because she's not angry over
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the loss of an heir, she's bereft over the loss of a child.
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After Blood and Cheese, Alyson is just completely devastated, and all she can think about is
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If she wasn't in bed with Cole, then maybe he would have been able to stop that horrendous murder.
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We'll know who did this soon enough.
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Who would do this save the bitch queen of bastards?
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There she sits across the bay on her rock, laughing at me.
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She's fucking laughing at me!
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Otto doesn't think Rhaenyra's capable of it.
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He knows she's good, and he knows that's a weakness, and hopes to use that to his advantage.
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We were very interested in the propaganda of it.
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Not only the horror of what's happened, but also the way that it's spun, and how it can
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be used to a political advantage.
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It's a way of manipulating the population with fake news, and as cruel as this society is,
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no one likes a dead baby.
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So in Otto's job, it's a weapon to employ in terms of public opinion.
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Otto is forever the pragmatist thinking about how to make the best of every possible situation,
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and it seems to me he's a character who's completely able to compartmentalize his emotions,
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and that makes him seem cold and calculating.
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But the child is dead, how can we use this to our advantage?
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Somebody once wisely said, never let a crisis go to waste.
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Otto is exploiting the moment to extract maximum political value, but it's a very effective
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political tool because these people that are seen by some of King's Landing as the usurper
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are now suddenly embraced, and that's why it's diminished Rhaenyra's position so badly.
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And they are accusing me of having a hand in this.
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I think the death of the prince is a paralyzing event in the story for Rhaenyra.
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It marks a reckoning with what her desire can do, her vengeful feeling, cause the death
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of another child, and causality suddenly starts to feel threatening, like one can set things
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in motion that one would never anticipate.
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As for Daemon, I think she has never really trusted him wholly, I think the question will
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become how important that actually is.
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Like with anything between them, it's utterly complex, and the thing with Daemon is his
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sense of morality, although it's perverted and mad, he thinks he's doing the right thing.
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Do you accept me as your queen and ruler?
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Emma and Matt are incredible actors, they really search for the feeling of a scene,
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and they find ways to really pace themselves through the scene so they're not coming in
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raging as might be their first instinct.
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Claire gave us such freedom, and something I spoke to Claire about was women's rage,
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and I think we saw Rhaenyra in season one keep a lid on intense feeling, and I was really
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excited to find out what happens when you take the lid off that.
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He was not afraid of you, Daemon!
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He could not trust you any more than I can trust you.
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They have a really interesting relationship, and we love writing for them.
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They have a connection that nobody else on the show shares.
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They are the same person, almost, in different bodies.
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The difference that Daemon was a man, and gets to do whatever he wants.
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Father.
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And Rhaenyra has to wear a dress and stay cooped up in a castle, and so feels that frustration.
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At the same time, Daemon was the heir to the throne, and it was taken away and given to
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Rhaenyra.
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And there's just no way that you're not angry and resentful about that.
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And so we wanted to delve into the fact that they have a deep connection, they have each
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other's back, but we're not sure where they're standing and how everything's gonna play out
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in the end.
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I don't think she realizes how bad this is for her at the moment, because so much of
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her claim is wrapped up in the realm's assurance that, yes, Rhaenyra will be queen, but at
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least she has Daemon Targaryen at her side.
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And now she doesn't, and she will have to reap those consequences in the episodes to come.
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Cole is wrapped up in his own guilt and shame, because he was in the queen's chamber when
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all this was going down.
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If you please, my lord.
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He's been commander for five days, and there's been the most catastrophic thing that's happened.
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So I think he loses it a little bit, and he feels so guilty, but he can't admit the guilt
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to anyone.
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And so he needs to externalize it and sense him on this mission that he deep down knows
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is a fool's errand.
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From the perspective of Arryk, and Arryk the very honorable, very diligent, and Arryk respects
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the fact that Krystan probably come from a similar background, but he's not very honorable
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with his oath.
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So there's a little bit of an underlying tension there.
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You will go to Dragonstone and strike down Rhaenyra in her own halls.
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Arryk thinks it's a terrible idea.
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The only things Arryk and Arryk had was duty and the love for each other, so it's putting
07:32
those things together and making them choose.
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As you command.
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The Arryk and Arryk duel is a giant moment in Westerosi history, and of course Arryk
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infiltrates the castle successfully, uses the uniform and the helmet that makes them
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all look alike to his advantage.
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We always love that moment of these two brothers who love each other more than anything also
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being set to kill each other, and there's a very American Civil War brother-on-brother
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aspect to it.
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Why are they doing this?
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It's because these nobles have decided that they're mad at each other, and now these guys
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have to battle it to the death.
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But Elliot and Luke are phenomenal in that scene.
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It was a really incredible moment on set.
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Sir Arryk.
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Believe me, I had no choice.
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Brother!
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We must have done over 30 hours of rehearsals on the fight scene.
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We wanted to put all our energy into it, and I feel like in the midst of the aggression
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of it, I think it should be quite a beautiful scene.
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And it was super emotional as well, and hopefully we can capture that for the audience anyway,
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because it'd be wicked if they could get a sense of how we felt on the day.
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I can hardly talk about the fight between Arryk and Eric, because it's heartbreaking,
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but it's an incredible scene.
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And I know it sounds completely opposite to it, but this is a love story.
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This is a story about how much these brothers love each other.
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So what are the questions?
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What are they saying to each other?
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Why is it so hard?
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It's because they love each other so deeply.
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So for me, this was a story about brotherly love like no other.
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