{"id":20566,"date":"2022-08-21T10:50:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T08:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1696511"},"modified":"2022-08-21T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T09:05:14","slug":"emma-darcy-didnt-know-they-were-auditioning-for-house-of-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/emma-darcy-didnt-know-they-were-auditioning-for-house-of-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma D\u2019Arcy didn\u2019t know they were auditioning for House of the Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 21 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel series<\/a> about to arrive on screens, features a power battle within the Targaryen family, with one of the key players being Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen.<\/p>\n

The daughter of King Viserys, she gets drawn into a fight for succession to the Iron Thrones when her father names her his heir, rather than the heir presumptive Daemon Targaryen, played by Matt Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Princess Rhaenyra is played by two different actors \u2013 Milly Alcock at a younger age and Emma D\u2019Arcy when the character is older.<\/p>\n

Now, in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, D\u2019Arcy has revealed what the audition process for the role was like and has admitted that they didn\u2019t at first know what series they were auditioning for.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Arcy said: \u201cInitially we were given made-up sides for an unnamed project for an unnamed network. And I\u2019m very naive so I was like \u201cOh I don\u2019t know what it is\u201d. I was like \u201cOh, it\u2019s like a fantasy series\u201d. And I rushed off a self-tape in about 20 minutes and thought that would be the end of it. I hear that other people knew \u2013 I don\u2019t know how I didn\u2019t receive that information.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower and Emma D\u2019Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon.<\/span><\/figcaption> HBO<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Acting opposite D\u2019Arcy in the series is Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, who is similarly played as a younger woman by a different actress, Emily Carey.<\/p>\n

Of course, secrecy is nothing new when it comes to Westeros \u2013 In 2018, ahead of Game of Thrones\u2019 final season, director David Nutter revealed that security was so tight that the cast wasn\u2019t allowed to have scripts on set.<\/p>\n

He said in an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit<\/a>: \u201cNot a lot of paper on the set, like none. No scripts were printed, we only used iPads and things of that nature. It was much more serious than in the past but the security has always been high.\u201d<\/p>

However, it seems that when it comes to a potential season 2, the cast may be kept more in the loop, with Criston Cole star Fabien Frankel revealing that he\u2019s already had \u201cconversations\u201d<\/a> with showrunner Miguel Sapochnik about where the show might go next.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Morgan Jeffery.<\/em><\/p>\n

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