Eve Best spoke with RadioTimes.com about that confrontation between Rhaenys and Daemon. <\/p>
*Warning \u2013 spoilers for the first episode of House of the Dragon season 2*<\/strong><\/p>\n The second season of House of the Dragon<\/a> has now kicked off, following up directly on the shocking end to season 1, which saw Rhaenyra\u2019s child Lucerys being killed.<\/p>\n In the first episode of season 2, Matt Smith\u2019s character Daemon<\/a> tried to get Eve Best\u2019s Rhaenys<\/a> to come with him on a mission to kill Aemond and his dragon Vhagar, but she questioned his authority and refused, even as he accused her of being the reason Lucerys died.<\/p>\n Eve Best spoke exclusively with RadioTimes.com<\/a> about filming this crucial scene, and revealed that it changed in the filming of it, as she found an \u201cempathy\u201d within Rhaenys for Daemon, which she previously thought did not exist.<\/p>\n She explained: \u201cThe scene with Daemon in episode 1, when we did it at the read-through it felt very [much] like it would be just a kind of Top Trumps sort of, you know, who\u2019s got the most power, kind of power play sort of a scene.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then just thinking about it a little bit more and digging a bit deeper, and then coming to do it as well with Matt, it felt like what came out of it was an awful lot of compassion that Rhaenys felt for Daemon, which was very surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n Best continued: \u201cBecause I feel like she\u2019s always kept him at an arm\u2019s length and profoundly distrusted him as a character, but actually discovering in that scene a lot of empathy for him. In that moment, in that scene, [she] suddenly sees him as this hopeless little lost boy.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFor example, when he says to her, \u2018If you\u2019d have killed everybody when you had the chance then Lucerys would still be alive,\u2019 people have asked me, \u2018Is that a moment where she suddenly has a moment of guilt?\u2019 and I felt like absolutely not.<\/p>\n \u201cShe is very clear in that moment that that was absolutely the right thing to do, and appalling that, as a result, this personal tragedy has happened, but on a bigger scale, choosing not to start a nuclear war is always a good choice.<\/p>\n \u201cBut also, what he throws at her in that moment is entirely reflective of him, and his own vulnerability and his own sort of desperate need to blame somebody. How she empathised with him so much was in the strange position that, oddly, they are both in, that weirdly mirrors each other.<\/p> \u201cThat they are both slight outsiders, these sort of displaced characters who should have \u2013 in her case, rightly so \u2013 should have been placed in a position of power and leadership and is denied because of her sex, and him in his own head equally should have placed in that position too.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the feeling of sort of role-lessness that one has in that position. It\u2019s very difficult \u2013 how do I position myself? And I know a lot of my work in season 1 was working that out with Rhaenys and discovering that all the time, was where do you put yourself when you don\u2019t actually have a role and you feel like you should have a role?<\/p>\n \u201cAnd you have some kind of status but you don\u2019t have any status. And that\u2019s a very strange, difficult path to tread for one\u2019s own sense of self and self-esteem and value.\u201d<\/p>\n House of the Dragon<\/a> has already been renewed for a third season<\/a>, which will follow this current run, which itself is slightly shorter than season 1, at eight episodes instead of 10.<\/p>\n House of the Dragon season 2 continues Mondays on Sky Atlantic and NOW \u2013 find out more about\u00a0how to sign up for Sky TV<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n [squirrel-affiliate-playlist squirrel_playlist_id=\u201d610\u2033 \/]<\/p>\n Check out more of our Fantasy<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what\u2019s on. <\/strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/b><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Eve Best spoke with RadioTimes.com about that confrontation between Rhaenys and Daemon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":53351,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/house-of-the-dragon-star-reveals-how-surprising-matt-smith-scene-changed.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/house-of-the-dragon-star-reveals-how-surprising-matt-smith-scene-changed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/house-of-the-dragon-star-reveals-how-surprising-matt-smith-scene-changed-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/house-of-the-dragon-star-reveals-how-surprising-matt-smith-scene-changed.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/house-of-the-dragon-star-reveals-how-surprising-matt-smith-scene-changed.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/house-of-the-dragon-star-reveals-how-surprising-matt-smith-scene-changed.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/house-of-the-dragon-star-reveals-how-surprising-matt-smith-scene-changed.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Eve Best spoke with RadioTimes.com about that confrontation between Rhaenys and Daemon.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/53350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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