The interpreter of Daemon Targaryen promised us “too much” sex, but we have seen rather little and very justified. We count Westeros dust.
“Yes, there are too many, if you ask me,” said Matt Smith in reference to the sex scenes of ‘The house of the dragon’ in an interview published in rolling stone just before the launch of the series and that quickly became a statement that went around the world. If ‘Game of thrones’ already had enough sex scenes -and some with controversy or with actors later dissatisfied with the high number of nudes they had to do-, it seemed that this new HBO prequel was going to raise the level as soon as to fucking
With few words, the actor who would play Daemon Targaryen achieved the juiciest headline in the promotion of the series and launched a hook for the viewer to bite. “You find yourself asking, ‘Do we need to do another sex scene?’ and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we need it.’ I guess you have to ask yourself, ‘What are we doing? Are we representing the books or are we watering down the books to represent an era? And I actually think that our job is to represent the books truthfully and honestly, just as they were written,” elaborated the actor. Now, with the first season of the fiction seen, we can conclude that the hook, in fact, had no bait.
From another point of view
‘The house of the dragon’ started its sex scenes in the first episode precisely with one between Daemon and the then-prostitute Mysaria in which he couldn’t complete the task; It only lasted a few seconds. Afterwards, we would return to the brothel and while some extras participated in orgies, Daemon slyly toasted his newborn and dead nephew, much to Viserys’s annoyance. From there, the representation of sexuality in the series would not raise the tone much more in the following episodes: It doesn’t happen again until the fourth, when Daemon secretly accompanies his niece Rhaenyra to the brothel. Again, it is not a very graphic scene and, in addition, in it the director Clare Kilner succeeds in putting the point of view on the young woman and how she discovers desire, rather than exposing sex to the viewer simply for show.
In that fourth episode, in addition, the resigned marital sex of Alicent and Viserys is shown in parallel, thus contrasting the different situations that both friends live, and ends with the bed scene between Rhaenyra and Criston that would be so important to tell the subsequent animosity of the. They are from this chapter. Absolutely justified and not at all morbid scenes (in any case, we could accuse the series of being prudish), which give context to the situation of the characters and their relationships or lead to plot advances; especially, the honor of Rhaenyra and the legitimacy of her children is essential in the development of the season. In addition, the series, in its mainstream vocation, avoids being graphic in its non-heterosexual representation and Laenor Velaryon’s extramarital affairs are resolved with a couple of chaste kisses to Joffrey Lonmouth.
Aegon Targaryen’s masturbation (in Tommen Baratheon’s famous window) in the sixth episode helps define him well as that adolescent with no aspirations to the throne and whose only interests are his hormones and indulge in hedonism. Then in the seventh the latent sexual tension between Daemon and Rhaenyra culminates with a most chaste fuck on the beach (and in which we hardly see anything because of the dark photograph chosen). If there is any downside to sex in ‘The House of the Dragon’, of course, it would be this: tremendous nonsense of these two characters in the consummation of a passion so far contained and that should be pure fire. Shame on you, Matt.
Beyond traditional sex
Finally, we have the scene that has caused the most talk of the entire season when it comes to sex: the one in which Alicent sells the sight of her bare feet to the fetishist Larys Strong. And it is not only interesting for going beyond traditional sex with the position of the missionary and the doggy, but for the portrait that it offers us of her: despite being the queen, she is in a precarious position where she has to sell her body to a person who is supposed to be his ally to keep him on his side. One more time, the presence of sex in the series has dramatic justification beyond the morbid (where we could enter into debate is on the issue of excessive violent births).
Thus, seeing the first season of ‘The house of the dragon’, we are left with the question of whether Matt Smith is very puritanical, if he is not used to shooting sex scenes (‘Doctor Who’ was a very familiar series, but curiously in ‘ The Crown’ is one of the few that has a nude scene) or if you simply he jumped into the pool in search of that headline that would go around the world, although there was not much foundation behind it. He deceived us, yes, but we forgive him for giving us, in return, such a charismatic Daemon Targaryen.
Source: Fotogramas
Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
