Olivia Cooke: Last News

Please note, the House of the Dragon screening and panel took place on March 7, 2023.

Paddy Considine has played cops, ex-cons, priests, architects, struggling actors, union organizers and rock band managers. But when his agent told him that Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik wanted him to play King Viserys I Targaryen in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” prequel series, “House of the Dragon,” he couldn’t quite believe it was real. “I said, ‘Who’s turned this down?’ Because I’m cynical that way,” he says. “My agent was like, ‘I assure you, they’re just coming to you for it.’” Part of Considine’s disbelief was due to his feeling that the industry at large had only ever seen him as the working-class striver he made his name playing in the 2000s, in films such as “In America,” “My Summer of Love” and “Cinderella Man.”

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Pine and Olivia Wilde are getting into the scripted podcast game.

EXCLUSIVE: Lana Condor is trapped in a subterranean biosphere in a new scripted podcast series.

Simon Russell Beale, Freddie Fox, Gayle Rankin & Abubakar Salim have joined the cast of HBO’s House of the Dragon for Season 2.

It’s time to return to King’s landing!

 has officially kicked off production on the anticipated season 2 at Leavesden Studios in the U.K., HBO announced Tuesday.The prequel will return nearly all of its original cast members, the premium cable network confirmed, while also introducing new faces into the expansive world.Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno and Rhys Ifans are all back as series regulars for season 2, while additional returning cast members include Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall and Matthew Needham." has returned. We are thrilled to be shooting again with members of our original family as well as new talents on both sides of the camera," co-creator/showrunner Ryan Condal said in a statement.

Let them breathe fire, production has begun on House of the Dragon Season 2.

Theo James is making a rare red carpet appearance with his wife!

The stars of House of the Dragon reunited for out for a special screening in Los Angeles this week!

Dua Lipa, Emma Roberts and Letitia Wright were just a few of the stars in the audience for the Prada Fall/Winter 2023 Womenswear Fashion Show during Milan Fashion Week on Thursday (February 23) in Milan, Italy.

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.

A Game of Thrones princess! Emma D’Arcy earned their first Golden Globe nomination for portraying Rhaenyra Targaryen on the GoT spinoff, House of the Dragon.

EXCLUSIVE: After months of rumors and a three month exclusive negotiating period, Anonymous Content is now near a deal to acquire the prolific production company Automatik. There’s a twist here: Deadline reported that Anonymous was in talks for Grandview/Automatik. But The Dish hears that Grandview won’t be part of the transaction and will remain a freestanding rep company.

Oh, stunning! Emma D’Arcy is happy their drink of choice — a negroni sbagliato with prosecco — has become a trendy order.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) is set to star in and executive-produce Nar, a character-driven action-thriller, which WME International is launching for world sales ahead of next week’s AFM in LA.

Thank goodness Olivia Cooke didn’t take the original note that her character should come across as a medieval woman for Trump. When the British actor took over the role as Alicent Hightower in HBO’s House of the Dragon, she focused on how she’s coming from “a place of undying love and protection for her children.” Here, the actress reflects on her first season of the drama and how folks shouldn’t assume she’s a straight-up bad woman.

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.

end of episode 8, picks up immediately the next morning in episode 9, as Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) starts making moves -- ones that seem to counter what was set in place by the king and his council many years prior. Not only that, but the queen’s sons prove just how much of a hot mess they are while Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) finally finds herself provoked to get up off the sidelines and take action in the battle of succession for the Iron Throne. As the penultimate episode set up the season 1 finale, which will surely end with a fiery fight between families, fans took to social media to share their thoughts about the queen’s change of plans and that shocking show of restraint that ended the aptly titled “The Green Council.” [: Spoilers for season 1, episode 9.] With the king now dead, after a miraculously long health battle that ended with him crying into the night, the queen wastes no time to start making moves of her own, believing that Aegon Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) is now the rightful heir to the throne -- and not Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy), who was previously promised to rule after her father’s death and even seemed to finally heal the festering wounds between her and her former best friend. However, the news of the king’s death is not yet widely known, allowing the queen and her father, the Hand of the King Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifan), to call their own small council (err “Green Council”) to determine the line of succession.

The last thing that Emma D’Arcy expected to become was a meme.

Olivia Cooke and Emma D’Arcy.In a TikTok video posted to HBO Max's verified account on Oct. 1, the  stars are seen discussing their favorite drink in the 20-second clip that has since gone viral and garnered more than 14.6 million views.