Emma D’Arcy: House of the Dragon is about “really angry blonde people”

We’ve got a while longer to wait before we get to see the second season of House of the Dragon, HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel show. In the meantime, let’s go back and enjoy some of the promotional material the cast recorded for season 1, including this charming video spot where the likes of Emma D’Arcy (Rhaenyra Targaryen), Matt Smith (Daemon Targaryen), Olivia Cooke (Alicent Hightower), Rhys Ifans (Otto Hightower), Eve Best (Rhaenys Targaryen) and Steve Toussaint (Corlys Velaryon) try to summarize what the show is in 30 seconds:

“So we start off 300 years before Game of Thrones,” begins Olivia Cooke. Nope, that’s not it; House of the Dragon takes place nearly 200 years before Game of Thrones, but let’s not hold that against her. Cooke is closer to the mark when she describes House of the Dragon as “quite sexy and…quite dark.”

Meanwhile, several of the actors list off evocative adjectives and sentence fragments:

• Rhys Ifans: “Grieving, plotting, lying.”
• Matt Smith: “Families imploding and people cheating on one another…Dragons flying in the air, burning boats, burning people, burning cities.”
• Steve Toussaint: “The pursuit of power and the pursuit of legacy. There’s an awful lot of violence and intrigue.”
• Eve Best: “Ambition and frustration and loss and sadness and death…Oh, and wigs.”

Emma D’Arcy sums up House of the Dragon

Emma D’Arcy, who has won a ton of accolades for their performance as the ambitious would-be queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, zeroed in on Rhaenyra’s deteriorating relationship with Alicent Hightower. “Women who are friends from childhood who fall out.” But honestly, she nails it when she says the show is about “really really angry blonde people.” The wigs don’t lie.

The really angry people will return on HBO and Max sometime in the summer of 2024, although we don’t have an exact release date yet.

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