Brothers in arms: Matt Smith and Paddy Considine unpack their ‘complicated’ arc on ‘House of the Dragon’

EW's West of Westeros

Entertainment Weekly

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4.0 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

House of the Dragon gives us a brand-new spin-off to The Bachelorette, starring a hostile Princess Rhaenyra as she reluctantly looks for a suitor. Meanwhile, her uncle, Prince Daemon, is incest-ing that she join him on a tour of the real King’s Landing. Hosts Nick Romano and Lauren Morgan unpack all this and more from episode 4. Plus, we share excerpts from Nick’s interviews with Matt Smith (Daemon) and Paddy Considine (King Viserys Targaryen) about their characters’ “complicated” relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Biseries has an ego. He's got a great tragedy in his life, but also there's a part of him that's going,
0:05.1	how am I going to be remembered in hundreds of years? They don't remember peaceful kings. They
0:09.8	remember warriors, they remember tyrants. That iron throne is the most dangerous seating around,
0:15.7	and he understands what the throne does to people's egos. He understands the Game of Thrones.
0:23.6	Welcome back to another episode of West of Westeros, Entertainment Weekly's Game of Thrones podcast.
0:38.6	I'm Nick Romano, a senior writer here at EW, and this week marks the return of my co-host,
0:44.5	Lauren Morgan, whom I thought I lost to Star Wars and EW's Day of a Dispatch team.
0:50.8	Lauren, welcome back.
0:52.1	Thank you. Sorry, I was off on another podcasting assignment last week to a galaxy far, far away.
0:59.0	But I have returned, and I did miss out on talking about episode three with you guys,
1:04.7	but I did listen to it, and I did enjoy it.
1:07.0	But I was like, I wish I could comment on this, but I'm not here.
1:10.8	But I'm here for episode four.
1:13.6	I've got plenty of things to say.
1:15.8	So I am excited to be back.
1:17.8	Yeah, this is another good episode to be talking about.
1:21.0	But before we kind of dig into all of this, I wanted to chat with you about something
1:26.4	that has been kind of dominating TikTok and Twitter somewhat.
1:32.5	Fans are convinced that they've figured out what the next Game of Thrones coffee cup,
1:38.9	Snapoo is on House of the Dragon.
1:41.8	I think you've seen this, Lord.
1:43.2	Yes, I have. Yes, I have.
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