Emma D’Arcy performed Rhaenyra Targaryen
Emma D’Arcy isn’t sugarcoating it — staying in contact with their Home of the Dragon co-stars hasn’t precisely been a precedence.
Reuniting with Matt Smith and Olivia Cooke at a Los Angeles panel on Thursday evening, the trio mirrored on season two and shared some sudden truths about their time aside.
When host Josh Horowitz requested how lively their solid WhatsApp group had been, D’Arcy joked “Dormant,” earlier than laughing and backtracking.
Smith, who performs the ever-unpredictable Daemon Targaryen, shared insights into his character’s arc this season.
“Trying to reroute his descent and his spiral into the chaos, dreamland, and places,” he stated. “Somewhere that felt [like it] made sense to me.”
He additionally acknowledged the present’s demanding nature, admitting, “There’s so many [challenges] on this show, really.”
Cooke, who performs Queen Alicent, opened up about her character’s ever-complicated dynamic with D’Arcy’s Rhaenyra.
“It’s been gorgeous to play with intricacies, and just how layered, hard, and sticky the relationship is now,” she stated, including that regardless of their fraught historical past, “they still find deep relief and comfort in each other.”
