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HBO’s “House of the Dragon” ended last week’s Season 2 premiere with one of the most emotionally brutal deaths in the “Game of Thrones” universe. Somehow, “Dragon” managed to double down in Sunday’s Episode 2.
That’s right. Stoic identical twin knights Erryk and Arryk Cargyll (played by 34-year-old identical twin actors Elliott and Luke Tittensor) face off in a deadly, lookalike brawl between brothers. It ends with the death of both siblings.
The tragic brotherly brawl between the Cargyll twins, members of the Kingsguard who sided on opposite sides of the simmering “Dragon” civil war, is a legend from “Thrones”—mentioned in a reverential tone in the sources of the author George RR Martin. The legend’s on-screen production “Dragon” lived up to the hype.
“This fight was sung,” Elliott Tittensor told USA Today. “So our battle really had to be epic.”
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“I would put our fight in the top two,” adds Luke Tittensor, ranking the televised battle. “Top five, of course.”
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We’ve been waiting for this moment ever since the once-inseparable twins split up on “Dragon,” with Arryk serving as King Aegon II’s personal guard (the Greens) and Erryk serving as Queen Rhaenyra’s personal protector (the Blacks).
After the murder of his son and heir last week, King Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) cries for vengeance. His Kingsguard boss, Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel), shows his dark side by hatching a revenge plan to kill opposing Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), who has been blamed for the crime. (It doesn’t matter that it was Daemon who orchestrated the murder.)
Cole, who regularly breaks his Kingsguard oath of chastity with Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke), hypocritically relies on the code of honor to convince Arryk to accept the heinous task – sneaking into enemy Dragonstone disguised as his well-placed twin and kill Rhaenyra. Arryk burns Cole with his gaze but agrees.
“Arryk was forced to make this decision, and it’s obviously a death mission,” Luke explains. “But Arryk is ready to fulfill this duty because all he has is his honor, his duty and his love for his brother.”
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In George RR Martin’s Targaryen family story “Fire & Blood”, Arryk is discovered by Erryk in Dragonstone. leading to the fateful battle. But in “Dragon”, Arryk goes to Rhaenyra’s chambers and swings his sword at the confused queen, who thinks it’s her guard. Erykk, alerted to his brother’s deadly presence, rushes into the room just in time. The sword fight between brothers and sisters is on.
The fight scene is almost entirely of the Tittensor twins wielding long swords in full armor. “It was mind-blowing,” Elliott says. “This costume is fashionable at the best of times, let alone when wielding a sword. But we threw ourselves into it.”
A stunt was only used when Arryk is thrown into the air and lands on a vase. “I was glad it wasn’t me because my stuntman hit that vase so hard it almost froze time,” Luke says.
It’s hard to tell, but Arryk is on the offensive for most of the fight, with Erryk playing defense – not wanting to kill his brother but protecting his defenseless queen. When the final sword strike is revealed, it is Erryk who sobs and hugs the brother on whom he has just passed his sword.
“You can see the real human side of him coming through,” says Elliott, who was happy to “show the world the bond we have as twins at the end of the day.”
With the assassin brother dead, Erryk walks towards the still-wary queen before proclaiming, “Your Grace, forgive me. » To everyone’s shock and horror, the distraught knight impales himself on his sword. The legendary double tragedy is over.
“The pain that Erryk felt when he killed his brother was the most intense feeling he had ever felt,” says Elliott. “When he says ‘Forgive me,’ he says it to Rhyneara because he’s about to sacrifice himself in front of her. But it’s also meant for his brother.”
The fight is intentionally confusing for spectators and viewers, but not for Elliott and Luke. “The illusion is lost on both of us,” Luke says.
The twins, born and raised in Manchester, northern England, appeared on Showtime’s “Shameless” when they were 11 years old. They shared the role of Carl Gallagher for the first season before Luke left after being cast in the British soap opera “Emmerdale.”
The major difference between the twins: Elliott has tattooed sleeves, Luke does not. But in the Cargyll uniform, they’re lookalikes.
The creators of “Dragon” took advantage of the resemblance, swapping the Cargyll twins in a crisis. In season 1, Luke was rushed to filming when Elliott couldn’t do “Dragon” scenes due to a COVID-19 scare. “I woke up at 7 a.m. to 10 missed calls and thought this was bad,” Luke says. “Intervening on everyone’s characters is not something we would do. But the production really wanted it.”
The twins endured seasons of understandable misidentification.
“There were many times where I would get called early on and I would look around and say, ‘You really need Luke for this scene, don’t you? I’ll get him,'” says Elliott laughing. “It happens to both of us. We’re used to it now.”
On “Dragon,” the two deaths in an assassination attempt will continue to rumble throughout the season.
“Things are really going to get complicated,” Luke says.
“The collateral damage and body bags are piling up and the pressure is increasing,” adds Elliott. “Basically, there’s no way to come back from here unless almost everyone dies in this whole thing.”
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