{"id":59574,"date":"2022-08-29T09:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/house-of-the-dragon-viserys-and-spoiler-marry-season-1-video\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:47:55","slug":"house-of-the-dragon-viserys-and-spoiler-marry-season-1-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/house-of-the-dragon-viserys-and-spoiler-marry-season-1-video\/","title":{"rendered":"‘House of the Dragon’: Viserys and [Spoiler] Marry Season 1 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warning: This post contains spoilers from Sunday’s House of the Dragon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When a grieving adult king is pressured into marrying his teenage daughter’s best friend, who has no say in the matter, that’s not exactly an event you commemorate with champagne toasts and tossed rice. So it’s understandable that no one \u2014 including King Viserys and his bethrothed, Alicent Hightower \u2014 is in a celebratory mood at the end of House of the Dragon<\/em>‘s Episode 2. (Read a full recap here.)<\/p>\n

The widowed monarch is \u201cforced into a situation where he has to remarry. I don’t think he would have remarried, personally. I think his heart was broken when Aemma died, \u201dPaddy Considine tells TVLine’s Dave Nemetz in the video above. \u201cThat’s the thing of being king, you know? No sooner is his wife dead when the council are talking about who’s going to be the heir. And then it’s about who are you going to marry?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Though Olivia Cooke doesn’t appear in the episode in which the engagement is announced \u2014 she plays Alicent as an adult and will debut later in the season; Emily Carey plays Alicent as a girl \u2014 she can’t contain her horror when the subject comes up.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe’s a child<\/em> when that happens, and that is terrible parenting,\u201d Cooke says, as co-star Emma D’Arcy nods in sympathy. \u201cHer father is the Hand to the King, and he orchestrates that. And within Westeros, within that world, she’s looked upon as an incubator for children and subsequent, future heirs.\u201d<\/p>\n

But just because King Viserys acted in accordance with what his small council adviser, don’t think he’s a pushover, Considine warns, teasing: \u201cHe makes moves that undermines everybody’s motivations, and that’s all revealed as the story goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Press PLAY on the video above to watch Cooke and Considine \u2014 as well as Matt Smith and D’Arcy \u2014 discuss the latest development in the game of Thrones<\/em> prequel, then hit the comments with your thoughts on Viserys and Alicent’s engagement.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n