Breaking Baz: ‘House Of The Dragon’s Emma D’Arcy Explores Masculine Desire And Ambition In Short Film They Star In And Produced
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: House of the Dragon star Emma D’Arcy has produced their first short film with production partner Ellen Spence (The Essex Serpent) at new shingle Second Name Productions.
The 15-minute movie, titled The Talent and barely out of post-production, has already been nominated in the Best British category at the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, sponsored by Film4 and Pinewood Studios.
Winners will be revealed next month at the festival in Cardiff, Wales. D’Arcy, who plays Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, takes on a character with no royal connections whatsoever in The Talent.
They play Tommy, described as a transmasculine production assistant, assigned as a dogsbody to cater to the caffeine needs of the cast and crew working on a high-end car commercial. “I was really excited to play Tommy,” D’Arcy told this column in a written statement (they declined an interview owing to the SAG-AFTRA strike). ”He’s a beautifully sympathetic character, striving, fumbling, deeply self-conscious, constantly misstepping.
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