HBO’s Game of thrones prequel series, Dragon House It premieres later this month and when it does, viewers can expect a few sex scenes—maybe too many, if you ask series star Matt Smith. said Smith, who plays Prince Damon Targaryen in the upcoming series rolling rock That the series contains quite a few sex scenes, enough that he found himself asking if they really needed all of them.
“You find yourself asking, Do we need another sex scene?” Smith said. And they’re like, ‘Yeah, we do. I think you have to ask yourself: “What are you doing? Do you represent books, or do you lighten books to represent time? [we’re living in]? ‘And I actually believe your job is to represent the books honestly and faithfully, as they have been written.’
He went on to admit that he feels his character may contain too many sex scenes, in his opinion.
“Yes—very much,” Smith said, “if you ask me.”
While there will be sex in Dragon HouseExecutive Producer Sarah Hess previously explained that Prequel’s approach would be different from .’s approach Game of thronesWhich raised criticism for how it handled some scenes, especially sexual violence scenes.
Hess previously said, “I’d like to make it clear that we don’t depict sexual violence on the show.” Vanity Fair. “We take one case off-screen, and instead show the consequences and the impact on the victim and the perpetrator’s mother.”
She added, “We are not ashamed of the fact that our female leads in the first half of the show are forced and manipulated to do the will of adult men. This is not necessarily done by those we consider rapists or abusers., but more often by men of goodwill. Generally unable to see what they are doing is shocking and oppressive, because the system in which they all live makes it normal. It is less obvious than rape but it is disingenuous, but in a different way.”
Dragon House HBO described it as follows: “The prequel series finds the Targaryen dynasty at the height of its absolute power, with over 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires – real and imagined – collapse from these heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow downfall began some 193 years before the events of The Game. Thrones, when King Viserys Targaryen broke a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later becomes a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her position as his successor, the seeds of division sowing friction throughout the world.”
In addition to Smith, the series stars Buddy Considine, Olivia Cook, Emma Darcy, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Fabian Frankel, Sonoya Mizuno, and Rhys Evans star in House of the Dragon. The cast also includes Millie Alcock, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Emily Carey, Harry Collette, Ryan Core, Tom Glenn Carney, Jefferson Hall, David Horovich, Will Johnson, John Macmillan, Graham McTavich, Ewan Mitchell, Theo Nate, Matthew Needham , Bill Patterson, Via Saban, Gavin Spocks, and Savannah Stein.
Dragon House It premieres August 21 on HBO.
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