House of the Dragon spoilers follow.
House of the Dragon director Clare Kilner has responded to a rather gross scene in the show’s latest episode.
In ‘The Green Council’, Lord Larys Strong (Matthew Needham) gives some vital information to Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke), and as a reward she reveals her feet, which he proceeds to masturbate to.
Opening up about the origin of the scene, Kilner – who helmed the episode – revealed that writer Sara Hess came up with the idea.
“Her mind is incredible,” she said on Entertainment Weekly’s West of Westeros podcast. “I mean, she really wrote us a wonderful episode, I have to say. But, yeah, that was an interesting scene actually.
“Funnily enough, you get the intimacy coordinators [for] all the nudity, but they don’t think about it for this,” she added. “It’s so intrusive and invasive. It’s a really dirty scene.”
Following the episode, the trailer for the season one finale was released, which hints at a major development for Matt Smith’s character, Prince Daemon Targaryen.
Elsewhere, House of the Dragon boss Ryan Condal has addressed the perceived rivalry between his show and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
“I’m a huge unapologetic Tolkien fan,” he told The Wrap. “I read Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and The Hobbit multiple times growing up, I saw the Peter Jackson movies multiple times in the theaters. I love all that stuff, I love high fantasy, and frankly I want to live in a world where there’s room for all of these things to exist if they’re good.
“I think the need for more well-made expensive science-fiction/fantasy on television is what all of us nerds want.”
Source: digitalspy.com