After constructing its characters’ relationships in season one, season two of HBO’s Home of the Dragon will see its leads flung throughout Westeros — a lot to the frustration of its close-knit forged.
The second season of the Sport of Thrones prequel will proceed to chronicle the Home Targaryen civil struggle, as Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), Prince Daemon (Matt Smith) and their Dragonstone forces face off towards Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and her kids for declare of the Iron Throne. However which means the celebrities had been typically off taking pictures their very own particular person storylines this yr, relatively than group scenes collectively.
On the present’s New York premiere on Monday, D’Arcy admitted filming with out Smith and Cooke was “form of lonely” however famous, “There’s so many stunning actors on the present, it’s an ever-mutating factor. Definitely, I believe it’ll make the energetic viewership form of extra thrilling as a result of there are such a lot of components to the collection that I’ve not had the prospect to observe but. So I get to observe as type of a pure fan, these different narrative strands.”
They added of lacking their two co-stars, “It actually makes you recognize what you misplaced, I suppose — each time we do get to work [together], it’s an important privilege and really thrilling and really thrilling and nourishes one thing as a result of it type of feels outdated. A lot of us making the primary collection, properly for me, was falling in love with them — with Matt, with Liv, with different members of the forged — so anytime you get pleasure in that may be a deal with. However exhibits have to maneuver on, I believe that’s what retains it thrilling, and there are completely different gravitational pulls this season for [Rhaenyra].”
With Daemon leaving Dragonstone to go struggle, that additionally meant fewer scenes between D’Arcy and Smith, as Smith echoed, “It was a disgrace, I missed them terribly as a result of I like being round them; not solely are they a beautiful actor, they’re a beautiful individual to type of knock about with daily. So I missed them, however it was what the story required. Daemon is off on his personal path attempting to determine issues out, form of head first into the darkish gap of his personal consciousness, into the abyss, and I believe Rhaenyra feels an important sense of betrayal.”
On the opposite facet of the battle, Cooke was additionally lacking co-star Paddy Considine, who performed King Viserys to her queen in season one, and whose dying kicked off the struggle.
“It was unusual, man,” Cooke informed The Hollywood Reporter of doing the present with out him. “Paddy is such an enormous presence and such a formidable actor, and he actually introduced this gravitas to the Pink Maintain, and we type of missed his strolling onto set, doing his Alan Partridge impression and utilizing his cane as a baton, twirling it round. He was enormously, enormously missed.”
On the occasion, Cooke and D’Arcy each additionally spoke about their Negroni Sbagliato meme that went viral when selling season one of many present, as Cooke admitted, “It was simply bizarre,” saying, “that was probably the most innocuous factor ever as properly, like we had been simply attempting to make one another snicker, and we stated a lot shit that day that that was the one which caught.” D’Arcy added, “I’ve discovered it at all times onerous to speak about as a result of it simply felt like one thing that had occurred to another person… I’m not that social media savvy, like I’m not vastly on this planet of it, so I don’t know, it was a type of unusual mirage in my life for some time.”
Home of the Dragon premieres June 16 on Max.
Neha Pleasure contributed to this report.