One of the Game of Thrones franchise, and the cast and crew are equally committed to making them all as impactful and meaningful as possible, perhaps giving a reason House of the Dragon actor Fabien Frankel spent a lot of time working on his only intimate scene for the thrones prequel series.
House of the Dragon star Fabien Frankel spent seven months planning a sex scene with Milly Alcock: “It’s awkward, especially when you’re young”
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Frankel shared that he spent seven months working on his character Ser Criston Cole’s sex scene in Episode 4 with Milly Alcock’s Rhaenyra Targaryen. “It was something we talked about for seven months. It was one of the first things I really wanted to talk about,” Frankel said.
“The most important thing for me was that I didn’t feel like such a pointless, sweat-shimmering sex scene, because it just isn’t like that,” he continued. “Anyone who’s ever had sex will tell you that sex isn’t so pretty. It’s not a picturesque, amazing thing. It’s hard, especially when you’re young. There’s an uneasy feeling you have to sit in, and there’s a discovery and understanding of each other’s bodies — not to mention the practicality of the whole thing.
According to Frankel, he spent months texting Alcock and episode director Clare Kilner about the scene, asking them, “How do we make this human? I remember just saying to them, ‘This armor will never come off without it. the help,” Frankel explained why he was fighting to get the scene out of the way with the long process of his character Ser Criston Cole taking off his armor.
He added: “Knights would have squires and squires would take off their armor. Even for a world-class squire, you have 10 minutes to take off the armor. Let’s say five, maybe at best. There’s no way Rhaenyra and Cole can take that armor off in 10 seconds. So I thought, ‘Well, you must have that in there. It’s important that that is what it is. It’s important that it’s a struggle to get the armor off.’ It is heavy. How do we get the buckle off? How do we get the boots off?”
“These are all things that I really cared about because they take away this kind of, in my opinion, archaic sexual sex scenes that have been around for so long in television and film, and make it feel real and what it would be like,” he concluded. There is now a time jump in the series and from episode 6, Emma D’Arcy takes on the role of Rhaenyra Targaryen after Milly Alcock’s departure.
Based on George RR Martin’s book “Fire and Blood,” the 10-episode series is the turbulent story of the House of Targaryen, 200 years before the events that captivated global audiences in Game of Thrones. The series is a gripping saga that takes us deep into the extraordinary world of Westeros and explores the Targaryen family – the almighty dragon riders who are the seemingly invincible rulers of the seven kingdoms. Bitter rivalry, jealousy, lust, the quest for power and betrayal will tear the Targaryens apart and threaten to destroy a dynasty that has ruled untouchable for a century.
Directed by Miguel Sapochnik, Clare Kilner, Geeta Vasant Patel and Greg Yaitanes, with George RR Martin, Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik along with Sara Hess, Vince Gerardis and Ron Schmidt, as executive producers. Although the series is a prequel to Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon features an individual storyline with new characters played by an impressive cast including Emma D’Arcy, Matt Smith, Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel and Sonoya Mizuno.
Also read: House of the Dragon: Emily Carey Reveals She Was ‘Afraid’ To Film Intimate Scenes – “There’s A Lot Of Violent Sex And It Made Me Nervous”
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