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House of Dragon actor reveals he did not wear prosthetic in graphic nude scene

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Updated 10:56 3 Jul 2024 GMT+1Published 10:29 3 Jul 2024 GMT+1

House of Dragon actor reveals he did not wear prosthetic in graphic nude scene

Ewan Mitchell went full-frontal as he sought to connect with his character

Emily Brown

Emily Brown

Featured Image Credit: HBO

Topics: House Of The Dragon, Game of Thrones, HBO, Film and TV, Viral

Emily Brown
Emily Brown

Emily Brown is UNILAD Editorial Lead at LADbible Group. She first began delivering news when she was just 11 years old - with a paper route - before graduating with a BA Hons in English Language in the Media from Lancaster University. Emily joined UNILAD in 2018 to cover breaking news, trending stories and longer form features. She went on to become Community Desk Lead, commissioning and writing human interest stories from across the globe, before moving to the role of Editorial Lead. Emily now works alongside the UNILAD Editor to ensure the page delivers accurate, interesting and high quality content.

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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.

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.

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Viewers got to see everything - and I mean everything - but actor Ewan Mitchell didn't rely on prosthetics to make the scene happen.

Ewan Mitchell stripped off for the explicit scene. (HBO)
Ewan Mitchell stripped off for the explicit scene. (HBO)

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.

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"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.

Mitchell said he wanted to be 'fully nude'. (Kate Green/Getty Images)
Mitchell said he wanted to be 'fully nude'. (Kate Green/Getty Images)

"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.

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"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."

Viewers were left shocked by Aemond's display. (HBO)
Viewers were left shocked by Aemond's display. (HBO)

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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.

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