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Simon Russell Beale Deserves the Fancams
The legendary theater actor is commanding House of the Dragon stans’ attention and making a dour series more tolerable to watch.
But you wouldn’t understand the extent of his iconography until you logged onto Twitter or TikTok, where a remix of Fedde Le Grand and Ida Corr’s “Let Me Think About It” — a 15-year-old fidget-house bop popular on fancams of K-pop bands — blasts over a clip of Simon calling Daemon the king … consort, the latter pejorative hitting like a drop on the dance floor. He is generally soft-spoken and thoughtful (he’s not fighting in any dragon battles or wielding a sword) during the average six minutes he spends onscreen during any given episode, yet his graceful bitchiness has skyrocketed him to extremely-online favorite. Couched in between intense moments of physical Targaryen violence are the verbal swipes between Daemon and Simon, granting the series a level of self-awareness — like it knows you need the comic relief.
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