For higher or worse, Recreation of Thrones rapidly made waves with its graphic sexual content material and nudity. All through its eight-season run, the HBO collection got here beneath fireplace for its sexual violence towards girls. When Home of the Dragon was introduced, it was thought that the prequel collection would possibly tone down the intercourse, however it will appear that’s not the case.
Whereas talking with Rolling Stone, Home of the Dragon star Matt Smith implied that there’s loads of intercourse available within the collection, even perhaps an excessive amount of.
You do end up asking, ‘Do we want one other intercourse scene?’ They usually’re like, ‘Yeah, we do.’ I suppose it’s a must to ask your self: ‘What are you doing? Are you representing the books, or are you diluting the books to symbolize the time [we’re living in]?’ And I truly suppose it’s your job to symbolize the books in truth and actually, as they had been written.
When requested if his character, Prince Daemon Targaryen, had his share of intercourse scenes in Home of the Dragon, Matt Smith responded with fun, “Yeah — barely an excessive amount of, if you happen to ask me.” As for his character, Smith described Daemon as “Type of an outsider. He’s not black and white, there are shades of gray with him, which is what me about him. And his relationship together with his brother is basically attention-grabbing. It was a pleasure working with Paddy Considine, who I’ve admired for therefore lengthy, and Rhys Ifans.” Whereas Home of the Dragon could characteristic “barely an excessive amount of” intercourse, author and govt producer Sarah Hess instructed Self-importance Honest that sexual violence gained’t be part of it. “I’d wish to make clear that we don’t depict sexual violence within the present,” Hess mentioned. “We deal with one occasion off-screen, and as a substitute present the aftermath and impression on the sufferer and the mom of the perpetrator.“
Home of the Dragon is ready a whole bunch of years earlier than the unique collection and is predicated upon George R.R. Martin’s Hearth & Blood, a Targaryen historical past e book which chronicles the historical past of Home Targaryen, beginning off with “Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and [going on] to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to carry the throne, all the way in which as much as the civil battle, referred to as the Dance of the Dragons, that almost tore their dynasty aside.” Home of the Dragon will debut on HBO on August twenty first.
