SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 2 of “House of the Dragon,” now streaming on HBO Max.
“House of the Dragon” fans have had a week to accept the death of Jace Targaryen (Harry Collett), but at the top of this week’s episode of the “Game of Thrones” prequel, his tragic passing was brand new information for his queen and mother, Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy). And she, understandably, did not take it well.
In fact, Rhaenyra was so devastated by the death of another son — this one her heir — that she repeatedly demanded his dead body respond to her when she first faced the news in Episode 2, Season 3 of the “Game of Thrones” prequel.
“I think the truth is, for Rhaenyra, it’s an insurmountable loss, and it’s a reality that is too terrible to reckon with,” D’Arcy told Variety. “So the first feeling, the first instinct, is sort of utter denial and to try to push back against that dawning terrible reality. It was a hard day at work.”
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