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House of the Dragon Season 3 Cast Interview | Matt Smith & Emma D’Arcy · Brighter Path: Data, Marketing, Entertainment, and Storytelling

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  In this world, being part of it, exactly where we're headed and
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  where the characters are headed. But you know, what's interesting
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  is lots of people don't know. Lots of people haven't read the
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  books and have absolutely no idea.
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  And I think that, you know, that must be quite an entertaining
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  position to. Be in so and and and you know
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  the the lovely tension I think here between doing an adaptation
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  like this and and that source material, which is a sort of a
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  plotted history there will always be surprise like, you
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  know even knowing the traduction of the the direction of travel
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  there is there's a yeah there's there's a lot to sort of be
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  surprised by on route. It's funny, isn't it?
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  Because I think probably it comes from a sort of trepidation
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  in me when we first started this journey, knowing that ultimately
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  House of the Dragon would have to find its own identity, which,
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  you know, is a hard ask when it's, you know, sitting in the
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  shadow of such an iconic piece of television.
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  And so probably there's, there's a bit of a boring answer, but
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  it's probably been a trepidation in me to, to sit them too
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  closely alongside each other just because House of the Dragon
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  has to find its sort of own path and the characters that we play
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  have to kind of own their identity.
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  I guess. Look, if I'm totally honest, I,
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  it was a funny time because I had my ACL reconstructed just
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  before we started shooting. And so I was hopping about on
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  crutches for the first three months in all my frocks.
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  So and so it was, which I think is quite funny.
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  And whether those whether that BTS comes out or not, we'll we
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  wait to see but favorite. I think, I think I think some of
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  some of the nicest moments are often it sounds really boring,
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  but are are are some of the most are some of the tiniest moments.
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  Like I'll see you in the makeup chair.
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  We're on different scenes and different days and you just give
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  each other a nod. You know, yes, mate, you're
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  going through as well and, and there's a sort of a sense of
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  mutual camaraderie when you, when you acknowledge that,
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  because it's a tough show to make.
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  It's a long old slog. And, and knowing that other
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  people are going through it in a different unit at the same time,
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  there's a sort of, there's a, there's, there's a real sense of
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  kind of camaraderie throughout the production.
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  So true, yes, I mean, I often pitch for that as being a sort
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  of extra show. It's just the kind of therapy
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  show. I mean, imagine if we went into
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  couples therapy, it'd be amazing.
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  You could have individuals sort of talking heads of of the
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  Targaryens going in. I mean, I don't know who a
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  Targaryen therapist is, but I think I think it would be a
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  fascinating drama in itself. Whether it work or not I don't
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  know.