Emily Carey is the Alicent Hightower character in House of the Dragon “scared”When she had to film sex scenes together with Paddy Considine (her co-star), she felt it. Considine is thirty years older that her and plays the role of King Viserys Targaryen during Game of Thrones.
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Carey was just 17 years old when she received the script. She shared how she was initially nervous about recording intimate footage with an older actor. “It scared me because, at that point, I still hadn’t met Paddy. I didn’t know how much of a joy he was and how easy he was going to make [the scene]. I only saw a 47 year-old man and me. I was a bit concerned,” she told Newsweek.
These intimate scenes form part of the fourth episode. House of the DragonShe appears to feel forced to participate in joyless coitus. In the same episode, Matt Smith, 39, plays Daemon Targaryen. He is joined by Milly Alcock, 22, in an intimate, incestuous scene.
In an interview with New York Post, Alcock said, “[Smith and I]We were just good friends. It was very comfortable. Our intimacy coordinator was there to help us through rehearsals and helped us plan ahead. We felt pretty overdressed because everyone else was nude.” The scene was scripted to take place in a brothel.
Sean Bean was Ned Stark’s character in the past. Game of Thrones, criticised intimacy. Interview with The Times, he said that he felt they “spoil the spontaneity”, claiming that “the natural way lovers behave would be ruined” if you had “somebody saying: ‘Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing.’”
Bean was not to Carey’s liking. She claimed that it was because of the House of the Dragon’s intimacy coordinators, she felt calmer about her scenes with Considine. “Having that outlet of the intimacy coordinator, to be able to talk everything through and not be shunned, or not feel awkward … Yeah, it was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.”
Since Carey hadn’t watched the show, she sat down with the episodes, only to realise the franchise’s track record of ill-treating its female characters. “In the pre-production period I sat down to try and watch [Game of Thrones] and of course the first season, even just the first episode of Thrones, there’s a lot of violence upon women,” said Carey. “There’s a lot of violent sex and it made me nervous. I was like: ‘Oh God, what am I gonna have to do in this show?’”
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She further adds how the inclusion of coordinators felt to her as a young artist,” It was an amazing thing, and it was empowering being on that set as a young girl and being treated the same as all of these very established men.”
