{"id":34301,"date":"2022-08-03T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/every-dragon-has-its-own-personality-in-house-of-the-dragon-exclusive-tv-series\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:16:48","slug":"every-dragon-has-its-own-personality-in-house-of-the-dragon-exclusive-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/every-dragon-has-its-own-personality-in-house-of-the-dragon-exclusive-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Dragon ‘Has Its Own Personality’ In House Of The Dragon \u2013 Exclusive | TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If there’s one thing you want from a Game of Thrones<\/em> prequel series called House Of The Dragon<\/em>, it’s plenty of those scaly, swooping, fire-breathing titular monsters. Of Thrones<\/em>, dragons were almost mythical, with Daenerys Targaryen bringing her three \u2013 Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion \u2013 to life long after the remarkable beasts were thought extinct. The dragon action made for some of the most memorable, exciting moments of the entire series (‘Dracarys!’), and so learning that there are a total of 17 fire-breathers flying around in the new spin-off show, nine of which we’ll meet in the first season (confirmed by co-runner Miguel Sapochnik), is music to our ears.<\/p>\n
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The biggest task for Sapochnik and his team when taking on these hot-headed creatures? Figuring out what they look like. \u201cI’ve got a book which has hundreds of [concept] designs,\u201d Sapochnik says. \u201cThe first thing you want is not to do Drogon. So I came up with a whole theory about how there were three different kinds of dragons, based on their different skulls. We came up with all kinds of stuff. But in the end, we ended up back at Drogon,\u201d he laughs. \u201cThere’s something about Drogon. It’s like the Millennium Falcon. It hit something.\u201d Though the beasts may have ended up looking fairly familiar, they are most definitely note<\/em> all the same. \u201cEach new dragon has its own personality. That’s what’s going on now in our last part of the animation \u2013 we’re applying personal character traits to each of the dragons,\u201d Sapochnik explains. \u201cOne of them’s got a [bad] leg. Another one’s much more like an eagle, because she’s kind of neurotic. And another one’s like a curmudgeonly old granny.\u201d Not the kind with a cheeky bag of Werthers Original in her purse, we’re guessing.<\/p>\n
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For the Targaryens, as we saw with Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys in Game of Thrones<\/em>, the bond they share with their dragons is incredibly important, and intuitive. \u201cThere’s a very symbiotic connection between the dragon rider and the dragon,\u201d explains Matt Smith, who plays Daemon. \u201cYou’ve got to master it from an early age, and it’s a death-defying experience trying to tame it. For want of a better analogy, it’s a bit like Avatar<\/em>\u201d for the House Of The Dragon<\/em> cast, connecting with their dragons’ mechanical stand-in was a little more fun. \u201cWe had an animatronic buck, which is controlled by a device that the director can use to plan each flight path,\u201d recalls Emma D’Arcy, who plays Rhaenyra. \u201cHonestly, having done my first day on the buck, my takeaway was that every member of production ought to have the right to have a go. They should allot time slots. The most acting I had to do was wipe the grin off my face, because I can’t overstress how thrilling it is.\u201d Who’s up for a House Of The Dragon<\/em> interactive experience? The queue starts here\u2026<\/p>\n