jezebel.com: This week’s House of the Dragon episode was all about sex, with two teenage girl characters and their vastly different experiences at the heart of it all. Emily Carey was cast as one of these characters, Alicent Hightower, when she was just 17 years old. Having watched parts of HotD’s predecessor, Game of Thrones, Carey said in a Newsweek interview that she was initially afraid to take on the role of a teenage queen married to a much older man and the inevitably uncomfortable intimate scenes this would surely entail.
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There’s a lot to unpack here. Right off the bat, I think it is great that this show is acknowledging where it wants to take its actors, and thus proving them with the proper support so it can minimize the damage shooting any of these scenes might create. I appreciated how broad they allowed the definition of “intimate scene” to be. It doesn’t have to involve sex in order for it to warrant an intimacy coordinator. I do think the top comment at the end of the article brings up a great point about casting practices. Why did a 17-year-old girl get cast in an adult drama where she would have to film things she is maybe not ready to do? I don’t have a “side” to this argument (largely because it does not pertain to me), but I do think it is something worth noting about this.
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