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Four more cast members introduce their characters in latest House of the Dragon featurettes

Posted on by Petra

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With mere days remaining until the premiere of House of the Dragon, HBO has released four more featurettes introducing us to the main players of season one: Corlys Velaryon, Rhaenys Velaryon, Otto Hightower and young Alicent Hightower, with an emphasis on her relationship to Rhaenyra Targaryen.

It’s a little unfortunate that we haven’t (and at this rate, probably won’t) get a featurette on older Alicent Hightower, as played by Olivia Cooke, but I suspect any discussion of her storyline would fall into spoiler territory, as these featurettes are very clearly focused on where the characters are at the beginning of the show.

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  1. ”It’s a little unfortunate that we haven’t (and at this rate, probably won’t) get a featurette on older Alicent Hightower, as played by Olivia Cooke, but I suspect any discussion of her storyline would fall into spoiler territory, as these featurettes are very clearly focused on where the characters are at the beginning of the show.”

    Yet, I’ve noticed Olivia Cooke’s conspicuous absence from other recent HotD promos.

    A WotW post (today or yesterday?) about Hightower family history featurette listed all of its narrators. Olivia Cooke wasn’t among them. Presumably, she could have narrated that kind of video without encroaching on HotD “spoiler territory.”

    So far, a lot of the advance marketing campaign that I’ve seen has focused on Milly Alcock as Young Rhaenyra. (That’s understandable. She cuts a striking image, with enough of a resemblance to Emilia-as-Dany to appeal to the casual audience.

    I am NOT whinging. I had just assumed HBO would want Olivia Cooke, the dynamic young actor playing one of the lead characters, to be front and center in its lead-up to the S1 premier. She’s got name recognition, an impressive resume – and invaluable Geek Cred: the kinds of factors you’d expect a marketing department to use to lure in new audiences.

    PS: Shout out to Tron79 for recommending Olivia Cooke in “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” (2015).

  2. One thing I am struggling with is the age difference between Rhaenyra and Alicient. Emily Carey looks mid-twenties but the young Australian actress looks very much like a teenager to me. Note. I’ve not checked eithers real age just going by appearance.

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