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House of the Dragon’s Ewan Mitchell Wanted His Nude Scene to Shock You
“All of these people in front of him? They mean nothing.”
But Prince Aemond the character is intensely aware of the reaction his nudity will garner in that room in a King’s Landing brothel, even if Ewan Mitchell the performer is tuning it out. Mitchell says that the dragon-rider’s display, a topic of much discussion between himself and the creative team prior to filming, was a move “encoded in Aemond’s DNA” — a shock tactic designed to demonstrate that this once-bullied boy will never allow himself to be chastened again. I drew on other aspects of pop culture, with ’80s horror icons like Michael Myers: a character who walks so slow but always catches up to Jamie Lee Curtis.
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