Alicent Hightower: Last News

Carole Horst For the show’s recently completed second season, “House of the Dragon” costume designer Caroline McCall built on Season 1, using rich fabrics and color palettes that included variations of greens and blacks, taking best friends-turned-adversaries Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) and Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) into different directions, clothes-wise. Season 1’s work by Jany Temines evolved over the course of the season into powerful statements as worn by Rhaenyra, while Alicent’s power slipped as she turned up in classically feminine medieval gowns.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for HBO’s “House of the Dragon” Season 2, Episode 6, titled “Smallfolk,” now streaming on Max. King’s Landing is far from the City of Brotherly Love. The rule of Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell) as prince regent has begun, and things aren’t looking great for Westeros or its broken king, Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney). Aemond takes the lead at the Greens’ small council, and immediately makes some big moves by dismissing his mother Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) as the Dowager Queen.

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “House of the Dragon” Season 2 Episode 5, titled “Regent,” now streaming on Max. After last Sunday’s fiery dragon battle killed off Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) and her dragon Meleys, this week’s episode of “House of the Dragon” slows things down a bit, showing the aftermath of Rook’s Rest. The battle may have been a win for the greens, but nobody is celebrating in King’s Landing. Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) and his soldiers march Meleys’ severed head through the streets, but onlookers are more terrified than impressed by the dead dragon.

Olivia Cooke discusses a sex scene that was ultimately cut from House of the Dragon.

Jordan Moreau Send a raven and mount your dragon because the Targaryens are back. “House of the Dragon,” the spinoff of HBO’s fantasy mega hit “Game of Thrones,” is returning for Season 2 on Sunday, June 16. It’s all-out war for the white-haired Targaryens, as Westeros is engulfed in the Dance of Dragons — a bloody civil war from the pages of George R.

“House of the Dragon” returns for Season 2 on Sunday, June 16 (9 p.m. on HBO and streaming on Max). The show was a smash hit, with around 29 million viewers tuning in weekly.

The stars of House of the Dragon are hitting the red carpet in Paris!

Some of the cast of House of the Dragon attended a photo call for season two at L’Automobile Club on Thursday (June 6) in Paris, France.

House of the Dragon is returning for Season 2 and the cast is teasing what viewers can expect when the show returns to HBO on June 16.

The official trailer for House of the Dragon season 2 has debuted online!

The first trailers for House of the Dragon season 2 has finally debuted online!

House of the Dragon is returning to HBO in June 2024 for the highly anticipated second season and new character posters have been released!

Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon) and Isla Johnston (The Queen’s Gambit) are set to lead the new Nicolas Pesce-directed horror film Visitation. Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), and Stephen Rea (Interview with the Vampire) will also star.

, which were briefly blacklisted, are back… or at least they're trying to be back. The were announced on Monday, December 12, and, as ever, there are plenty of Golden Globes snubs to complain about.

Fans of HBO's Game Of Thrones prequel series House Of The Dragon have endured brutal murders and incest scenes, but it was a foot fetish scene in Sunday's latest episode that pushed several fans over the edge.The latest episode — titled The Green Council — featured a dark scene in which Queen Alicent Hightower (played by Olivia Cooke) exposes her bare feet in order to get favors from Larys Strong (Matthew Needham).The clearly sexual scene had some fans up in arms, while others were happy to joke about the scene, which the episode's director Claire Kilner called a 'really dirty scene' while speaking with Entertainment Weekly. Didn't see that coming! Fans of House Of The Dragon were shocked while watching Sunday's episode when Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) exposed her bare feet to Larys (Michael Needham) in exchange for gossipThe scene in questions takes place following the death of King Viserys (Paddy Considine) after a long, mysterious illness.His wife Alicent has determined that her son Aegon will assume the throne, and she claims that her husband expressed that wish on his death bed, even though his oldest daughter Princess Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) was the previous candidate for the throne.Larys plans to share some gossip with Alicent that will help in her plot, but he requires a special favor before he is willing to share it: an unobstructed view of her bare feet.

[Warning: Spoilers for HBO’s “House of the Dragon” Episode 9, “The Green Council,” ahead.]Brothels got nothin’ on a foot fetish.Fans were left cringing over a moment in “House of the Dragon” on Sunday that even the episode’s director called a “really dirty scene.”While delivering gossip that can help Queen Alicent Hightower’s bottom line — placing her son Aegon on the Iron Throne in a hostile Westeros takeover — Larys Strong asks for something in return while the pair rendezvous in her bedchamber.But it seems Alicent has been lent a helping hand in exchange for her feet.As Larys, played by Matthew Needham, begins to spill the tea, Alicent (Olivia Cooke) starts to take off her shoes and stockings and places her bare feet on the coffee table. Larys then informs her of a web of spies in the Red Keep — led by the “White Worm” Mysaria and aided by one of her servants in an operation her father, Otto Hightower, knows about — as he stares at her dogs.But it doesn’t stop there.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you haven’t watched Episode 9 of “House of the Dragon,” titled “The Green Council.” King Viserys is dead, long live King Aegon! Season 1 of “House of the Dragon” barrels toward an explosive finale next Sunday, as the battle lines are further drawn between the greens and the blacks. The penultimate episode didn’t feature Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) or her side of the impending civil war, instead focusing on how Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) and her supporters usurped the Iron Throne and ushered in the new, somewhat reluctant, King Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney).

House Of the Dragon season one.Throughout the first season of the Game Of Thrones spin-off, viewers saw various members of the Targaryen family through several iterations, with Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke replacing Milly Alcock and Emily Carey as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Queen Alicent Hightower, while Tom Glynn-Carney and Ewan Mitchell took over the roles of Prince Aegon Targaryen and Prince Aemond “One-Eye” Targaryen.However, fans had noted the omission of their youngest brother, Daeron Targaryen, who didn’t feature at all in the first season.Martin however, has since cleared up any confusion, explaining Daeron’s absence in his latest blog post.“Yes, Alicent gave Viserys four children, three sons and a daughter,” wrote the Game Of Thrones author. “Their youngest son Daeron is down in Oldtown, we just did not have the time to work him in this season.”Also in the blog post, Martin took the opportunity to praise the performance of actor Paddy Considine, noting that his portrayal of King Viserys was “more powerful and tragic and fully-fleshed” that his own written version.“Kudos to Eileen Shim, the scriptwriter, to Geeta Patel, the director, to our incredible cast… and particularly to Paddy Considine, for his portrayal of King Viserys, the First of His Name,” Martin wrote.“The character he created (with Ryan [Condal] and Sara [Hess] and the rest of our writers) for the show is so much more powerful and tragic and fully-fleshed than my own version in Fire & Blood that I am half tempted to go back and rip up those chapters and rewrite the whole history of his reign.He added: “Paddy deserves an Emmy for this episode alone.

[Warning: Spoilers for “House of the Dragon” season 1, episode six, which is aptly titled “The Princess and the Queen”.]

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in the first six episodes of “House of the Dragon,” currently airing on HBO and streaming on HBO Max. If one of the big narrative challenges of “Game of Thrones” was managing the geographical sprawl of its many interweaving storylines, the challenge for the first season of its prequel series, “House of the Dragon,” is stretching the story of the civil war within the Targaryen family over multiple decades. George R.R. Martin’s bestselling book about the conflagration, “Fire & Blood,” spans generations — children are born and grow into adulthood within the two warring factions of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and her former best friend turned stepmother, Queen Alicent Hightower.

, Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke finally made their debut as older versions of Prince Rhaenyra Targaryen and Queen Alicent Hightower, respectively. The two stars take over the roles originated by Milly Alcock and Emily Carey after the prequel series jumped forward 10 years in episode six. And it’s safe to say that the relationship between the former best friends is as complicated as ever as family in-fighting and politicking for the Iron Throne continues to drive a massive wedge between them.