Millie Alcock was at a friend’s house when she received a call from her agent that would change her life.
The 22-year-old Australian actress passed the audition dragon house Several times via Zoom, reading lines for a mysterious character named “YR”. never looked Game of thrones (He was only 10 years old when the original show debuted), but he knew it was potentially the biggest break he ever had. When he got the call that she had landed the lead role of young princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, it took all his acting skills not to break the news right away.
“They called me and obviously I couldn’t tell anyone and I seemed to sink into the ground,” he recalled in an interview. the hollywood reporter via Zoom. “I asked my friend if he had wine and he couldn’t say why. He thought something terrible had happened. It was: someone is sick, someone has died, something catastrophic has happened. I couldn’t tell anyone for so long.”
Still, the surprises didn’t stop there for the actor, who won the 2018 Rising Star Casting Guild of Australia Award for TV Drama. On the contrary But he said he was washing dishes and living in his mother’s attic when he landed. Continue. Alcock revealed that the younger version of Rhaenyra was not simply a character who appeared in a few flashbacks, but was the focus of the ensemble drama in the first part of the season until Emma D’Arcy took over the role for the rest of the season. season. season. Show. “I was surprised,” she says, and in fact she still doesn’t know what to make of her prominence on the show. “I was just In truth shocked.”
The actor was quick to complain. thrones and then came Continue Set in London to explore the environments it would fill, such as the 35,000 square foot, multi-level, interconnected Red Keep suite.
“I felt like I was literally taken from Australia and someone left me in the middle of the ocean with nothing around,” he says. “I worked on Australian television, where our show’s budget is less than an episode. [of Dragon]. I had never been on an eight million dollar set before. So it was a big responsibility to bring in Renyra, and it was interesting because Renyra and I had similar trajectories in our history: how we entered an unpredictable world that we really expected and learned to deal with. these challenges”.
One challenge that differs from typical television is both thrones s Continue Use “source” lighting: All scenes try to mimic the lighting that a visible source has in show business, such as sunlight, moonlight, or a torch. (This is why some indoor scenes can look a little dark.)
“As there is no electricity in this world, everything is lit by fire,” says Alcock. “So all the lights you see on the show will have people coming in and setting everything on fire, and the set gets incredibly hot. I will sweat profusely and stay like this (extend your hands) with two cover girls. So it was all very fascinating. ”
Alcock got the chance to FaceTime beforehand with co-star Emily Carey, who plays Alicent HIGHtower, and took a long walk with actor Fabian Frankel, who plays knight Sir Christon Cole. But one of the artists he was disappointed to meet was other Raenira.
Alcock recalls: “Emma and I said, ‘Let’s meet.’ “We wanted to meet [director Miguel Sapochnik] And talk about Renyra’s progression as a character. And Miguel didn’t want us to meet, which was very interesting! So we never had that discussion. Miguel used to say, “Just believe that you two have it.” I think he knew we would try to imitate each other. “
Sapochnik, who is also the showrunner along with Ryan Condal, also advised Alcock to trust Rhaenyra as a real figure. “He’s quite stoic in the way he likes to present himself, and I’m a very boring person,” she says. “S [Ryan and Miguel] He constantly reminded me that there is strength in silence. He doesn’t need to prove himself, he has that status.”
Another challenge was conquering the dragon platform, which in the new series is a little different from the all-green room that the cast feared on Thrones. The new configuration uses a volume stage, the same technology the Mandalorian where a giant video wall projects the background while filming a scene so the actor can see their surroundings in real time rather than adding it in post production.
“Someone will guide you through the steps of how you are going to move to avoid the [dragon was going to turn]”, he says. “Then they would approach you and blow air on you. [expressions]. I took no action. You’re not really moving, you’re just… somewhere.”
Since then, Alcock has received significant praise from critics for his performance on the show. So even if it doesn’t seem like Continue For a long time, just like when he was in the dragon’s turn, he will definitely go somewhere.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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