‘House Of The Dragon’ same-sex kiss wasn’t in script but felt “organic”, say actors

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House Of The Dragon wasn’t in the script, but felt “organic” to take place, say the actors in the scene.During Sunday’s episode, the show surprised fans in episode ‘Smallfolk’ with a same-sex kiss that wasn’t in George R.

R. Martin’s Fire & Blood – the book on which the show is based.It occurred between Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Lady Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno).

After Mysaria speaks to Rhaenyra about her past, the queen hugs her before the pair kiss until they’re interrupted.Mizuno told TheWrap that “it wasn’t scripted as a kiss” even, adding: “I think it was scripted as … there’s just breath between them or something, and then whatever happens is interrupted.”Mizuno went on to say that it felt natural to go into the kiss because of their closeness.“Because we were separate in the room…[and] Mysaria has told this story, [D’Arcy] felt the instinct to hold her, to comfort her,” Mizuno explained. “From that, it felt so organic to go into the kiss.”Mizuno added that they did not want the kiss to feel “queer-baity in any sense,” adding that the moment made it feel “emotionally so right.”“I don’t think either of them have been hugged like that in a long time, if not ever,” Mizuno continued. “I think it was the hug – the intimate vulnerability of that hug – which morphed into this very tender and passionate kiss, which was quite… amazing.

I think it’s very thrilling in the moment for both of them.”In a separate interview with Variety, D’Arcy said the moment was born out of the two characters’ “desire to connect”.“I think what you see initially is intimacy, and an intimacy that Rhaenyra shares so rarely,” they told the publication. “Even in some of her other romantic relationships, there’s a lot of presentation, there’s a lot.