HBO Teen Star was "afraid" to film intimate scenes with a much older co-star

The actor of the Dragon House, Emily Carey, opens onto the prequel series.


TheThrones Prequelle seriesDragon House was created in August, and - like his predecessor - it has already aroused controversy and started conversations on his graphic scenes. In a new interview withNowsweek, a teenage star of the series admitted that she was initially "afraid" of acting in intimate scenes with her co-star, who is 30 years older than her, especially because she knew sexual content inObtained.

ActorEmily Carey(Which uses the pronouns it / they) was frank on the Playing Alcent Hightower process in these difficult times, learning what they are asked to do in the scripts to the way things happened Between them and their stage partner on the set. Read on to find out more.

Read this then:This star HBO asked that some of its rated scenes be cut.

Carey was initially "nervous" at the idea of ​​acting in intimate scenes.

Emily Carey and Paddy Considine in
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OnDragon House, Carey plays the youngest version of Alicent Hightower, who marries King Viseys (Paddy considering). In the most recent episode, "King of the Narrow Sea", Algent gives King Views a bath, and they also have a love scene.

In his interview withNowsweek, Carey shared what she felt after reading the script and learned that she would shareThis intimate scenario With a much older actor.

"[I] didn't scare me, because at that time I still hadn't met Paddy, I didn't know how much he was and how much he was going to do [the scene] , and all I saw was, you know, a 47 -year -old man and I was a little worried, "said Carey. They noted that they were 17 years old when they received the scenario and 18 during the shooting.

She also lookedThrones to prepare.

Emily Carey at the premiere of
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Carey saidNowsweek that she tried to watchThrones To prepare for his new role, but that he had the effect of worrying even more.

"I've never seenThrones Before, and therefore during the pre-production period, I sat down to try to watch it [of course the first season, even the first episode ofThrones, There is a lot of violence to women, "said the 19 -year -old star." There is a lot of violent sex and it made me nervous. I said to myself: "Oh my God, what am I going to have to do in this show?" ""

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Carey praised the program's intimacy coordinator.

Emily Carey and Paddy Considine in
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Contrary toThrones, which only started using one in subsequent seasons, Housedragon has employed a intimacy coordinator from the start. As defined by the Sag-Aftra Union, "An intimacy coordinator is a defender, a link between the actors and the production, and a motion coach and / or a choreographer with regard to nudity and simulated sex and other intimate and hyper-exposed scenes. "Having someone in this role on sets has become more and more common after the too movement.

"We have an incredible intimacy coordinator," said Carey in theNowsweek interview. "Again, being still 17 years old, the first scene I read of the show was my sex scene and my intimacy scenes, which includes the scene where I bathe the king - everything that seemed intimate was considered An intimacy scene, which I thought was great. "

Carey was surprised how comfortable they felt on the set.

Emily Carey at the Los Angeles premiere of
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Carey saidNowsweek Whether the intimacy coordinator helped them not feel "avoided" or "clumsy" to make their voices heard.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"In the rehearsal room, she was of massive help and on the set, she was of massive help. Yes, it was much easier than I thought," said the actor. Carey also praised the crew of the program as a whole, stressing how pleasant it was to have "a lot of women behind the scenes".

"When we arrived in the rehearsal room, no matter who was in which scenes, there was an open dialogue on:" Look, that's how we approach the show. This is how it will be different from the original. This. This is what we want to talk about. This is what we want to turn off. This is how we want viewers to see the women of our show, "said Carey." It was an incredible thing, and it was empowering to be on this set as a young girl and to be treated in the same way as all these very established men. It was great, I think they approached him in the best way they could have done. ""

AThrones Star recently pushed the importance of intimacy coordinators.

Sean Bean at the
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The intimacy coordinator of the show made all the difference for Carey, in particular as a young actor, and many other stars have spokenin favor of practice , too. But, recently, a Obtained star gave a dissident opinion .

"I have to imagine that it slows down the push. Ha, not the push is the bad word. It would spoil spontaneity," Sean Bean , who played Ned Stark Thrones said in an interview with The temperature ( Going through The independent ). "It would inhibit me more because it draws attention to things. Someone saying: 'Do that, put your hand there, while you touch his thing ...' I think the way the way natural emergency lovers behave would be ruined by someone who brought him back to a technical exercise. "

Bean has faced a backlash for his comments, including other actors .


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