OLIVIA COOKE in the interview for Entertainment Weekly:
"He's an absolute dream to work with. He's wonderful, soulful, silly man." — talking about freddie fox.
"Alicent and Gwayne have been pretty much estranged their whole lives. So trying to find this familial sibling bond between strangers was really interesting." — about the relationship between Alicent & Gwayne in HOTD S2.
Of her House of the Dragon children, Olivia Cooke further praises Phia Saban.
Alicent Hightower in HOTD S2: "Everyone, it seems, has been spying on her".
"Who can she trust? there's no one around her."
"It's this sense of peak paranoia within her own home. That had to really permeate throughout my performance. All of a sudden she's of no use to anyone. She's done what she was supposed to do put her son on the throne and now she's discarded."
That loss, however, becomes freeing: "Oh, i could do whatever the f--- i want and no one cares. All of a sudden I'm not important. I'm not a player. In a very giddy way, that's really novel and exciting."
— Two words: "Blood" and "Cheese." To mention those words to the cast is to cross their NDAs.
Olivia Cooke: "God!" [exclaims]. "I'd just say, it is Game of Thrones, expect the worst. Expect the very worst possible, and then double it. I dunno what else to say without heavily spoiling it, but it is heinous."