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Eve Best Saw Rhaenys’s ‘Kamikaze Mission’ As a ‘Relief’
“To me, that’s pure whatever she is — Arthurian knight, Lancelot, samurai.”
One of the few actors who has inhabited their character since premiere episode “The Heirs of the Dragon,” Best gave the Queen Who Never Was layers of capability, vulnerability, and discontent as she doubted whether the realm would ever accept a woman as their ruler while also urging Rhaenyra and Alicent to pump the brakes on a war amplified by the men surrounding them. She diplomatically aligned with Team Black despite both her daughter and son dying while married to Rhaenyra and Daemon, respectively, and served as a thoughtful and authoritative leader on Driftmark while her husband Lord Corlys Velaryon spent years in battle. When she volunteers to face new Hand of the King Criston Cole, Aemond, and his dragon Vhagar at Rook’s Rest in the Crownlands, “she knows full well that it’s very likely to be a suicide mission, a kamikaze mission, and that’s why she proposed herself to do it.” For as tragic and shocking Rhaenys’s death is against Aemond and surprise attacker Aegon, Best points out that there’s a full-circle quality to it given Rhaenys’s experience as a warrior and how she avoids retaliating against Team Green in season-one episode “The Green Council.” “She thinks, If somebody’s going to start it, then it has to be me, because it will be done in the most efficient way with the least bloodshed while at the same time making it look effortless.
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