“Game of Thrones” was known for its gratuitous sex scenes, which is probably one reason that “House of the Dragon” actor Fabian Frankl spends so much time working on just one intimate scene for the “Thrones” prequel series. Frankl said Entertainment Weekly He spent seven months working on an episode 4 sex scene for his character with Milly Alcock’s Rhaenyra Targaryen.
“It was something we talked about over the course of seven months. It was one of the first things I was very keen to talk about,” Frankel said. “The important thing for me is not feeling like another gratuitous sex scene, writhing in sweat from behind,” because it isn’t. .”
“Anyone who’s ever had sex will tell you sex isn’t that pretty,” Frankel continued. “It’s nothing fancy, cool. It’s awkward, especially when you’re young. There’s an inconvenience one has to sit in, and there’s a discovery and understanding of each other’s bodies—not to mention the practical side of it all.”
According to Frankel, he spent months texting Alcock and episode director Claire Kellner about the scene and asking them, “How do we make this human?”
“I remember just saying to them, ‘There’s no way this shield will come off without help,'” Frankel said, explaining that he struggled to lengthen the scene’s runtime with the lengthy process depicting his character, Sir Creston Cole, taking off his shield.
“Knights will have swamps, and swamp stalks take off their shields. Even for a world-class jam, you have 10 minutes to remove the shield. Let’s say five, maybe at best. There’s no way Raynera and Cole can take that shield off in 10 seconds,” Frankel said. “So I was like, ‘Okay, you should have that. It’s important that this is what it is. It’s important that taking off the armor is struggling. It’s heavy. How do we take the buckle off? How do we take off the shoe? Those are all the things I cared about.'” It really says, “Because it takes the kind, in my opinion, of old sex scenes that have been around for so long in TV and cinema, and makes them look real and how they would be.”
House of the Dragon airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.
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