Dragon House: Did Ivan Mitchell (Emond) Really Do This Scene Naked?

Warning, spoilers. It is recommended that you watch House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 3 before continuing with this article.

Season 2 of Dragons is currently airing on the MAX platform, and fans of the series will find that each episode continues the tragic story of tension and betrayal for nearly 200 Targaryen families years before the events of the original series.

This is the second season of the novel adaptation Fire and blood George RR Martin finally begins the famous “Dance of Dragons”, a bloody, years-long war that destroyed the Targaryen Empire.

The third episode, titled “Le Moulin Brûlé,” marks a pivotal moment in the story and finally starts the war between Aegon’s camp (Tom Glynn-Carney) and Rhaenyra’s camp (Emma D’Arcy), especially with this invention. But an important scene (LINK).

If the dragon house is threatened with war, the fact remains that family conflicts are always there, even within the same camp. In episode three, it’s clear that Aegon and Emond’s (Evan Mitchell) relationship is hanging in the balance, and what happens next could be tragic.

Emond’s naked scene explained

Since childhood, Aegon and Emond have not had a healthy sibling relationship. The former always martyred the latter, causing a deep resentment in Emond, even stronger in the years since Aegon ascended the throne.

Aegon’s behavior towards Emond is always the same, as evidenced by the brothel sequence in House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 3. Aegon goes there with the Kingsguard for his new neighbor to lose her virginity and finds Emond there, naked and bent over near a prostitute he frequents and with whom he forms a deep bond because she acts like his mother. him.

Faced with this situation, in which Emond is vulnerable and sensitive, Aegon openly mocks him. “He talks about his childhood in a brothel – how his brother and younger uncles treated him because he was different”Evan Mitchell recalls Vulture, “This child was bullied everyday because he didn’t have a dragon egg like the rest of the family.”

When he read the script and saw the scenes in the brothel, Emond’s interpreter saw “A brilliant opportunity to offer a rare insight into one’s own vulnerability”. And he claims to see her in this world “Very shocking”.

But Emond turned his psychological and physical wounds—losing his brother and uncle’s eyes—into armor. which allows him to leave the brothel solemnly and with Olympian composure after mocking his brother. And he does it…bare, full frontal (where we can see his penis)!

“It’s not a choice we made lightly. But it’s true for Emond that he shocks the public. Weakness is not part of his vocabulary.”

And for this sequence, Evan Mitchell didn’t need to study as he chose to appear in the simplest device that served his character after many discussions with director Geeta Patel. The latter left him a choice, the goal was to make her feel comfortable and that they were both on the same wavelength as he explained. variety :

“Ivan is a very good actor. He understands what he needs to do to play Emond. In directing, it’s very important to open up to the actors and then the actors to you. It’s mutual abandonment in this case. Ivan knew his character so well that I listened to him and went with him. , while we were doing this episode.”

The director quickly realized that Evan Mitchell knew his character very well and that he wanted to give him that touch of sensitivity and vulnerability. And the actor came to the conclusion that he wanted to leave himself completely and, therefore, play naked, without using a body double or a prosthesis:

Little by little he begins to put on his armor and when he stands up, the fact that he doesn’t care to see his penis is such a powerful visceral change. That’s important to me because that’s what he would do.

Season 2 of Dragon House is currently streaming on the MAX platform.