House of the Dragon Star on ‘Everyone’s Gonna Hate’ Character After This Week’s Episode
Warning: Full spoilers follow for Dragon House Season 2, episode 2.
In the second episode of season 2 of House of the Dragon, Black team and green team we not only face the emotional consequences of devastating events murder of prince Jaehaerys. No, of course, the child’s death leads to even more moves and countermoves from both groups as they vie for control of the Iron Throne.
I spoke to the stars of the series about the latest developments in this week’s episode, including some big moves from Ser Criston Cole, Daemon’s dramatic departure from Dragonstone, and the intense and emotional duel between twin brothers Ser Erryk and Ser Arryk.
Battle of the Twins: Ser Erryk versus Ser Arryk
During the events of Episode 2, Ser Erryk and Ser Arryk, played by identical twins Elliott and Luke Tittensor, found themselves as divided as Team Black and Team Green. But after Jaehaerys’ murder, Ser Criston concocts a plan of revenge that ends tragically for both brothers.
Fabien Frankel, who plays Criston, says his character is “really very upset” by the death of the child.
“I think he really thinks it’s his fault,” he said. ” He was’nt here. He should have been there. He was with the Queen when this happened. And I think he feels a heavy burden of responsibility. And so it’s like a child, when you tell a child that they did something wrong and they just want to fix it, whatever it is, and they can’t really understand the nuances of how to repair it in a rational way. So they solve the problem by simply doing something that seems immediate.
And so he sends Arryk to kill Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), but Erryk intercepts his brother. In the end, Erryk kills Arryk and Arryk immediately commits suicide in his grief.
“It’s obviously very sad,” Frankel continues. “I don’t want them to die at all. These are my two favorites. …Everyone is going to hate Cole so much after this. Jesus Christ.”
D’Arcy was on set during the duel between the two knights, as Rhaenyra narrowly escaped Arryk’s blade before her brother interceded.
“I just looked at the work,” they recall. “The stunt coordination is amazing. This happened over the days. Luke and Elliott worked extraordinarily hard, as hard as I’ve ever seen people work on camera, I think. I don’t want to speak for them and I hope they talk about it at some point, but I think the whole sequence had a deep personal resonance.
The change of hands
Meanwhile, King Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) replaced Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) with Ser Criston as the new Hand. We saw in the season premiere that Larys (Matthew Needham) was plotting, as always, when he met the king, and it seems we now know what seed he was planting. I asked Needham if his character’s plan was to eventually become the Hand himself.
“I think it’s just about changing the board,” he says. “The board is constantly changing, and getting rid of Otto is a big player. I don’t know if he immediately thinks he’s going to fill that space, but someone will. And then it could possibly change again. So I don’t think it should be deleted and taken over.
Frankel adds that Criston will be more of a “man of action” like Hand than Otto.
“He will do what he wants and he will do it at the cost of whatever it takes to achieve what he thinks is right,” the actor says. “But I think, to be honest, he just wants to get out of the castle. I think he’s been stuck there for so long. It’s been there from the start. He never comes out and he’s suddenly put in a position where he can come out and he can come up with a plan to get him out and get Aemond out and resolve what we see as a war that’s taking too long to end. We talk too much and we get to a point where we wonder: how many more of these games are we going to play? Let’s go ahead and fix it.
When Rhaenyra realizes that Daemon (Matt Smith) was behind the murder of the young prince, the two have an argument which results in Daemon flying off on his dragon to parts unknown.
“He said: “Goodbye! Kiss my ass ! That’s enough,” Smith laughs. “I find it so irritating.”
Several other characters react to Blood and cheese killing memorably, including Aegon, who not only thirsts for revenge, but is also seen crying to himself at one point.
“It also shows that (the king is) capable of love,” Glynn-Carney says of his typically cold character. “I hear a lot of people making these comparisons to Aegon and Joffrey (from Game of Thrones). I disagree with this because Joffrey is a psychopath and I don’t think Aegon is. It’s much more complex than that.
Ewan Mitchell, who plays Aemond – Blood and Cheese’s original target – says his characters see civil war between Team Black and Team Green as inevitable at this point.
“It’s either them or it’s us.” And Aemond chooses them, I think, by hook or by crook. You see it even in Episode 1, the Council of Shadows, this idea that Cole and Aemond are sort of manipulating the Council to their will, to their sort of vision of how things are going to play out. They want to take the reins.
But what do you think about what happened in episode 2? Let’s discuss it in the comments…
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