Home of the Dragon is returning for Season 2 and the forged is teasing what viewers can count on when the present returns to HBO on June 16.
Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, and Matt Smith talked to Deadline and teased what’s forward for the fantasy drama, with Smith revealing that the present will likely be extra like its older sibling.
For Cooke, who performs Queen Alicent Hightower, returning for the second season of the George R.R. Martin-created sequence was like a homecoming.
“We all know the characters inside out, and we’re form of going again house, in a method,” Cooke instructed us. “We’re not afraid of the textual content or afraid of the large units which might be form of house away from house.”
Cooke teases that in Season 2, Queen Alicent Hightower leaves the citadel with the actor saying, “That was enormous for me. I went to Spain. I went to Wales and I went to Surrey. I’m excited for individuals to see me out of the citadel.”
D’Arcy teased that “an enormous motor of this season is grief,” including that their expertise with grief in their very own life earlier than starring within the HBO fantasy drama “was barely surreal.”
“I did attempt to search the nice in being invited to replicate on what grief does to the physique, to relationships, to at least one’s want, to at least one’s psyche…,” D’Arcy added. “A part of the magic the [writing team] has constructed this season simply how enmeshed the non-public emotion is with the political designs. That for me is when the present actually ticked.”
Smith teased that Home of the Dragon will likely be totally different from the primary season when the characters have been all collectively, including, “This time, it leans into the components of Sport of Thrones of previous, the place you’re out exploring totally different worlds and pockets of the world of Westeros.”
Harry Collett recalled that they filmed “such a tragic scene” for Season 2 however “simply ended up laughing” throughout manufacturing.
Bethany Antonia thought it was “phenomenal” taking pictures the dragon scenes describing the expertise as “like making a music video.”
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