House of the Dragon star Milly Alcock has opened up about the ‘gnarly’ filming of sex scenes for the latest episode of the Game of Thrones spin-off HBO show.
The 22-year-old star, who plays Rhaenyra Targaryen, described the behind-the-scenes reality of filming the brothel scenes for the show, which she said involved show extras forced to lie in a very intimate position for hours on end.
She said: “There were extras who we had just met who were like, 69-ing for 12 hours.”
She went on to tell the New York Post: “It's pretty gnarly, we felt pretty overdressed because everyone else was nude.”
The fourth episode sees her character in disguise in the Westeros capital of King's Landing, as she’s taken to a brothel by her uncle Daemon, before the pair share a much-discussed kiss.
Daemon, played by The Crown’s Matt Smith, then flees the scene and leaves Rhaenyra to fend for herself.
Actress Milly revealed she first saw the brothel scene as the cameras were rolling, after director Clare Kilner ‘made sure that we hadn't seen any of the brothel stuff’ before the shoot.
She said: “That was our first time walking through the brothel, and he's guiding her through the room with all of these other bodies.
“So, that was quite shocking. You're like, 'This is kind of weird and silly'.”
Reflecting on what it was like to film this scene, Milly said: “I think Matt is an incredible actor and he's also so kind and funny, so I felt very comfortable with him in all of those scenes. We’re just kind of mates. So, it was quite comfortable.
“We had an intimacy coordinator, and we worked with her through the rehearsal process and blocked it out months before.”
This comes after co-star Emily Carey admitted to feeling ‘scared’ to shoot sex scenes in the HBO fantasy series due to the 30 year age gap with her co-star Paddy Considine.
Carey, 19, plays Alicent Hightower in the House Targaryen prequel – Alicent marries King Viserys, who is played by Paddy Considine, 49.
Partway through a previous episode, Alicent is awoken by her maid in the middle of the night and informed that her husband Viserys has ‘requested her presence’. In the following scene, Alicent lies still while Viserys has sex with her.
Speaking about that moment, Emily admitted that she was initially ‘scared’ to film the scene.
Speaking to Newsweek, she said: “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.
“The first scene that I read from the show was my sex scene and my intimacy scenes. All I saw was, you know, a 47-year-old man and me, I was a bit concerned.”
