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It’s not all glamour and glitz. House of Dragon star Emily Carey wasn’t exactly excited to film sex scenes with her costar Paddy Considine — given their 30-year age difference.

Emily Carey felt "scared" to film sex scenes for 'House of the Dragon'. The 19-year-old actress - who stars as Alicent Hightower in the HBO fantasy series - has confessed to feeling anxious ahead of shooting sex scenes with her 49-year-old co-star Paddy Considine. Emily told Newsweek: "It scared me because, at that point, I still hadn't met Paddy.

WARNING: Spoilers ahead for “House of the Dragon” Season One, Episode Four: “House of the Narrow Sea”.

star Emily Carey, who plays young Alicent Hightower in the HBO series, says she was apprehensive about filming a cringe-worthy sex scene for the show. In Sunday night's episode, titled «King of the Narrow Sea,» Carey's character appears opposite her much-older husband -- King Viserys, played by Paddy Considine — in two intimate scenes. First, bathing him in a tub and, second, lying motionless -- appearing reluctant and disengaged — beneath him in bed while he has sex with her.Carey, who was 17 at the time she read the script and 18 at the time of filming, says in an interview with that she was initially «scared» of performing the scenes with the then-47-year-old Considine.«We have an intimacy coordinator who was amazing,» Carey told the outlet«Again, still being 17, the first scene that I read from the show was my sex scene and my intimacy scenes, that includes the scene where I'm bathing the king — anything that felt intimate was considered an intimacy scene, which I thought was great.»An «intimacy coordinator» is someone whose job is to choreograph simulated sex scenes on film and television sets while being mindful of the wellbeing of the actors involved. «But, it scared me, because at that point I still hadn't met Paddy, I didn't know how much of a joy he was and how easy he was going to make [the scene], and all I saw was, you know, a 47-year-old man and me, I was a bit concerned,» she continued.

House Of The Dragon has shared a teaser for season one episode five – take a look below.The Game of Thrones spinoff series is currently airing weekly on HBO Max, with the forthcoming episode airing on September 18.Paddy Considine’s Viserys Targaryen can be heard saying “I wish to propose a marriage to my daughter and heir” in the start of the teaser.“I hope to herald in a second age of dragons, ” before being warned that “knives will come out” and another person saying that “the king will die”.Take a look at the teaser here:House Of The Dragon recently became Sky’s biggest US drama launch and the most watched Sky Atlantic premiere ever in the UK.After the show’s premiere broke records at HBO, attracting almost 10million viewers, the Game Of Thrones prequel smashed viewing records in the UK.According to Sky (via Deadline), the first episode has attracted more than four million viewers, beating the launch of Game Of Thrones in 2011.Zai Bennett, head of content at Sky, said: “Momentum around House Of The Dragon just continues to build, as more and more people spread the word about its ever-current narrative of political power play married with visuals of epic scale and imagination.“And thanks to Sky making the first episode freely available to watch via YouTube, more people than ever before will be able to sample the world-class world of Westeros.”

Three years after the now-infamous Starbucks cup incident on the final season of Game of Thrones, the prequel series House of the Dragon has its own unfortunate gaffe, just three episodes in.Many fans noticed towards the end of the third episode - Second of His Name - that Paddy Considine was still wearing a green glove to hide two missing fingers of his character King Viserys Targaryen.Photos of the green glove went viral on social media after Sunday's episode, with HBO telling The Hollywood Reporter that the episode will be corrected with the new version arriving on streaming platforms this week. The moment happens just at the start of a new scene in the 45th minute of the episode, where Viserys hands a scroll to Ser Addam (Oscar Salem), telling him to 'make haste' and deliver it to Prince Daemon (Matt Smith) in Dwarfstone.While the scene is fairly trivial in the grand scheme of the episode, the digital effects artists failed to remove Visery's pinky and ring fingers, which had green covering on them so VFX artists could remove them in post-production.

made it into the final cut of the series’ most recent episode.[Warning: Spoilers below.]During Episode 3 of the “Game of Thrones” prequel, eagle-eyed viewers honed in on King Viserys “missing fingers” — noticing that they were green and obviously meant to be removed during the editing process.Fans swiftly took to social media to drag the show for the botched special effects. Twitter user Sarah Capps noticed the actor Paddy Considine — who portrays King Viserys in the fantasy drama — wearing a glove with several green fingers, following a storyline where he is plagued by a mysterious sickness in his bones.Capps posted a screenshot of the scene on Sunday, writing: “Not the green screen glove on Viserys’s missing fingers.”In Episode 2, he was told  his fingers would need to be amputated if the infection spread.HBO has since confirmed that the error will be corrected, and show will be updated on streaming platforms this week, Variety reported on Wednesday.

Fans of House Of The Dragon detected a continuity issue on Sunday's episode of the Game of Thrones prequel involving the character King Viserys, played by Paddy Considine.On the show's premiere episode, King Viserys cut his fingers while touching the Iron Throne, leading to an infected wound that eventually led to him losing a pair of fingers.The deterioration of the character's digits were shown halfway through Sunday's episode, the third of the series, depicting how they had rotted (with the use of greenscreen technology). The latest: Fans of House of the Dragon detected a continuity issue on Sunday's episode of the Game of Thrones prequel involving the King Viserys character, played by Paddy ConsidineKeen watchers took to social media to point out that the episode included a few shots of King Viserys' fingers with the green finger sleeves visible.One user said: 'CGI budget ran out… I saw the green sleeves on the king’s fingers when passing the paper #HouseOfTheDragon.

After the premiere of the highly-anticipated Game of Thrones prequel, HBO has now released the House of the Dragon opening credits as the second episode of the fantasy drama aired.

HBO has renewed Game Of Thrones prequel House Of The Dragon for a second season.The show’s renewal comes after the first episode debuted on Sunday (August 21), which has been watched by 20 million viewers in the US across linear, on demand and HBO Max platforms, according to the network.Francesca Orsi, executive vp of HBO programming, said: “We are beyond proud of what the entire House Of The Dragon team has accomplished with season one. Our phenomenal cast and crew undertook a massive challenge and exceeded all expectations, delivering a show that has already established itself as must-see TV.“A huge thank you to George R.R.

HBO has given House of the Dragon an early renewal for Season 2.

House of the Dragon has received criticism for its lack of a trigger warning before its dramatic first episode.

House Of The Dragon star Paddy Considine has opened up about the show’s brutal labour scene.in the season premiere of the Game of Thrones spinoff, one climactic scene sees Queen Aemma die by C-section.Paddy Considine, who plays King Viserys, discussed the “tough” shoot in a roundtable attended by Insider. “It was very emotional,” he said. “In fact, it was a lot more brutal and a lot more emotional than it ends up in the final episode.

Outlander star Graham McTavish revealed he once turned down a role in Game of Thrones before he signed up to star in House Of The Dragon.

Naman Ramachandran “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” debuted on HBO Max in Europe with the largest ever audience for any new series or movie on a HBO streaming service. The first episode went live on HBO Max in 21 European countries across the Nordics, Netherlands, Central Eastern Europe and Iberia at 3am CET on Monday. “The platform saw unprecedented demand starting in the early hours which peaked on Monday evening,” an HBO statement said. Viewing numbers were not provided. A spokesperson for HBO Max said: “ ‘House of the Dragon’ is by far the biggest launch in the history of HBO and HBO Max in Europe, breaking previous records for a new title. The number of viewers for the first episode exceeded all expectations.”

Games of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon has become the most watched HBO/HBO Max TV or film premiere in Europe in the network’s history.

Emma D’Arcy says there is only one incident of sexual violence in ‘Game of Thrones’ spin-off ‘House of the Dragon’. The actress, 30, said the new HBO series also focuses on “patriarchal structures from the point of view of women who have no control over those structures and for whom they were not made”. Emma, who plays Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in the prequel series, which started Sunday (21.

is off to a flying start. HBO's prequel — set 200 years before Daenerys Targaryen's quest for the Iron Throne — scored nearly 10 million viewers in its Sunday night debut, making it the most highly-rated original new series premiere in the history of HBO. Officially, the cable network reports 9.986 million viewers across both linear and HBO Max streaming platforms in the United States on Sunday night -- even as the streaming app crashed on Amazon Fire TV devices, leaving a portion of potential viewers in the dark. A press release from HBO indicates that Sunday's viewership is expected to make up just a small portion — 20 to 40 percent — of the show's total gross audience. While a direct comparison would be impossible to nail down -- due in part to shifting landscapes in streaming and evolving fandoms — the and both note that first season premiered to 4.2 million viewers in 2011, while its eighth and final season premiere was watched by a record-setting 17.9 million people in 2019. brings to life George R.R.

House of the Dragon made history in its debut Sunday evening on HBO and HBO Max, as the Game of Thrones prequel garnered 9.99 million viewers - the largest ever in the network's history - Warner Bros. Discovery said Monday.The ratings for the debut marked the biggest numbers ranging back before the streaming era, and shows that later debuted on the since-shuttered HBO Now and HBO Go, according to Variety.

Selome Hailu Westeros came back to HBO last night with the series premiere of “House of the Dragon” — and brought the masses along with it.“House of the Dragon” drew in 9.99 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max after premiering with one episode on Sunday, according to Warner Bros. Discovery.“Game of Thrones” has remained HBO’s biggest hit of all time since concluding in 2019, and as its prequel series, “House of the Dragon” is arguably the project to get the most marketing and fanfare from the network since.