Matt Smith is winning praise from the LGBTQ+ community over the way he subtly corrected a presenter who mistakenly misgendered his House of the Dragon co-star Emma D’Arcy.
Smith was interviewed by Sue Perkins, host of Sky’s official fan show House of the Dragon: War Room, at the London premiere of Season 2.
Perkins referenced an earlier interview she had done with D’Arcy and explained that “she gave you all the credit” for the final scene in Season 1, in which Rhaenyra Targaryen is informed by Daemon about the death of her son Lucerys.
D’Arcy’s preferred pronouns are they/them, which Smith repeated back to Perkins when he answered her question. “I can’t take the credit, [but] I have to say, aren’t they brilliant?” he said.
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