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Topics: House Of The Dragon, Game of Thrones, HBO, Film and TV, Viral
Emily Brown
Topics: House Of The Dragon, Game of Thrones, HBO, Film and TV, Viral
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We all thought Game of Thrones was explicit, but House of the Dragon clearly isn't holding back either, if one of Aemond's latest scenes is anything to go by.
Come on, you know the scene I'm talking about.
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The NSFW scene came in the third episode of the new second season, when Prince Aemond completely strips off in a King’s Landing brothel and is caught by King Aegon, who walks in on him being held by a brothel worker.
The scene marked the first full frontal nude scene in House of the Dragon, but represents a more vulnerable and emotional moment which leads to Aemond leaving the room completely naked.
Viewers got to see everything - and I mean everything - but actor Ewan Mitchell didn't rely on prosthetics to make the scene happen.
In an interview with Variety, House of the Dragon director Geeta Patel revealed that Mitchell wanted to completely strip back to capture the vulnerability of the scene.
"Ewan is such a great actor. He understands what he needs to do in order to portray Aemond," Patel said.
"When I spoke with him originally about the nudity, I said to him, 'Let’s just go through the story. If you don’t feel comfortable being nude, then you’re not going to be nude.' We were both on the same page in that way."
Patel continued: "[The scene is] one of the few times you see the young child in him and you see the pain in him.
"Slowly he starts putting on his armor and when he stands up, the fact that he doesn’t care that you see his penis is such a strong visceral shift.
"And so, of course, Ewan was like, 'I want to be fully nude in that moment. It’s important to me because that’s who my character is. That’s what he would do.' And that’s what we did."
Mitchell himself told Vulture that the scene only came about after a conversation about how far he was 'prepared to go'.
"It wasn’t a choice we made lightly," he said. "But it’s true to Aemond that he shocks the audience. Weakness is not part of Aemond’s vocabulary."
The actor felt the moment in the brothel offered 'a rare glimpse of [Aemond's] vulnerability', adding: "He’s humiliated by his brother and all his crew, and it’s like this switch flips. The madam is no more.
"All of these people in front of him? They mean nothing.
"He stands up, he owns it. 'Yeah, I’m bulletproof. Anything you say, it will not work'."
Watch House of the Dragon on HBO Max.