House Of The Dragon. Spoilers ahead.The Game Of Thrones spin-off depicts a complicated relationship between her character, Queen Alicent, and Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock), particularly after the teenage Alicent marries Rhaenyra’s widowed father, King Viserys (Paddy Considine).Speaking to Variety in a new interview, the actress said: “I mean, we kind of started that discourse,” Carey says. “We were in the rehearsal room… I believe it’s Episode 4.
I was sat on the bench. It’s not necessarily something we had talked about yet. We were doing that scene, and Milly and I looked at each other like, ‘It kind of felt like we were about to kiss?
That was really weird!’ And so we talked about it.”Carey stated she feels any interpretation of the characters’ sexuality is down to viewers’ interpretation. “We didn’t intend to play it.
We weren’t ‘making them gay’ or ‘queerbaiting,’ or anything like that. It’s just, if you want to read into it and see it like that, do it.
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