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The rain cleared just in time for the House of the Dragon cast to fire up the red carpet at season three’s world premiere Monday night.
Returning players Emma D’Arcy, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Fabien Frankel, Steve Toussaint, Harry Collett, Tom Glynn-Carney, Ewan Mitchell, Bethany Antonia and Phoebe Campbell all graced the carpet at London’s Odeon Luxe in Leicester Square, where an enormous dragon skull sat atop a bed of candles, in honor of the Targaryen clan. They were joined by supporting cast members Abubakar Salim, Clinton Liberty, Kurt Egyiawan, Tom Bennett, Gayle Rankin, Kieran Bew and Abigail Thorn as fire spouted across the carpet.
“For the first time, there’s momentum in her campaign,” British star Emma D’Arcy told The Hollywood Reporter about Rhaenyra, who heads into this latest instalment, premiering June 21 on HBO and HBO Max, aiming to take back the Iron Throne after a deal made with Cooke’s Alicent Hightower.
In season three, the political back-and-forth has now become all-out warfare: Rhaenyra intends to kill Aegon (Glynn-Carney) in full view of the public to quash any doubt over her heirship. “There is a feeling that the position she finds herself in is fated in some way… [It’s a] character who has been kind of restrained from action for two seasons [who is] finally on the precipice of seizing her end,” D’Arcy added.
