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He was trying to get some idea where Daemon’s at with his beliefs, but the tone of the scene was never quite right. There was a scene that was deleted after Aemma (Sian Brooke) died, where Viserys meets with Daemon and he tries to hint at this idea of prophecies and what the gods mean to him. Shouldn’t he at least have told Daemon or others about the prophecy? But that guy could never have been able to be Viserys’s hand. Daemon helps him up there, and he puts the crown on his head, and that said everything that he’s never said, without uttering a word. Even at the end, there aren’t words in that relationship. Viserys knew Daemon couldn’t sit in Small Council meetings for 12 hours straight. After this last moment in the throne room, do you wonder if Viserys made a mistake not giving the position of hand of the king to his brother Daemon instead?Ībsolutely not! Daemon was a liability. In some ways, he let the leeches into his life - the maesters, the Hightowers. When they offer suggestions to cure him, he doesn’t bother with it. It’s like people who surrender to illness. I think he accepts it as part of the guilt of the decision he makes to put his wife through a terrible, horrible procedure. Nowhere in the story does Viserys ask the maesters to cure him, to stop this thing from eating him alive. He knows the weight of being king, the weight of the responsibility, and the toll it can take.įrom the minute of his wife’s funeral, I think Viserys starts to die. It’s not something Viserys craved he just had a sense of duty. The mystery is why so many people crave the Iron Throne. It becomes a physical manifestation of all the infighting and skulduggery, really. So it certainly made sense to me, and I think it was pretty shocking and effective. I watched my dad die of cancer, and it was a very rapid demise. So it went probably more extreme than I had originally imagined it would go. The extremity - Viserys looking so emaciated, how it’s so cancerous, this thing, that it eats into his face - that decision was made more than halfway into the shoot. I said to Miguel Sapochnik, “This would be a good idea for where Viserys ends up.” So I had somewhere in my head that I could map where I was going to get to. I happened to be watching a documentary about one of my favorite artists, Richard Hambleton, and watching his physical decline through cancer, addiction and scoliosis. Very early on, you’re still forming the character, and I knew it was going to come to an end with some kind of transformation, so you’re always looking for references for that. I’m sure somebody will show me a photograph.Īt what point did you figure out what the king’s stages of deterioration would look like? Some people don’t like to watch themselves, and I’m one of those people. I haven’t seen anything beyond Episode 2, really.

No, I haven’t, and I’m not sure if I ever will. But “he’s got a strange moral compass of his own,” Matt Smith, who portrays him, said. A Rogue Prince: Daemon Targaryen is an agent of chaos.The actor Paddy Considine discussed the character’s transformation and its meaning. A Man’s Decline: By the eighth episode of the season, Viserys no longer looks like a proud Targaryen king.

The Princess and the Queen: Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke, who portray the grown-up versions of Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower, talked about the forces that drive their characters apart - and pull them together.

He is still not sure how he landed the role.

Playing Kingmaker: Fabien Frankel plays Ser Criston Cole, who got to place the crown on the new King of Westeros’s head.

#Phantom of the opera costume for kids series#

Return to Westeros in ‘House of the Dragon’ HBO’s long-awaited “Game of Thrones” prequel series is here.