‘House of the Dragon’ Cast: What Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy and More Look Like Off Screen
usmagazine.comFire cannot kill a dragon — or a franchise. HBO is returning to Westeros with the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, and once again the cast is almost unrecognizable outside of their wigs and costumes.Matt Smith, who plays Daemon Targaryen, has donned plenty of unusual outfits during his career, but even he was initially intimidated by his character’s platinum wig.“I was like, ‘How can I act through this blonde wig?’ because all you can see is the blonde wig when you first put it on,” the Crown alum told The Hollywood Reporter in July 2022. “But it’s like anything, you get used to it and learn to ignore it.
It was cool in the end, I’ve got three sorts of distinct haircuts in this, which is lucky because everyone else has just one thing all the time.”Emma D’Arcy, who plays Rhaenyra Targaryen, got into the wig game even before landing the role — but not without some struggle.
The U.K. native wanted to wear Targaryen-esque hair for their audition tape, but with no wigs on hand at home, they had to improvise.“All I had were some hair extensions left over from a job.
No way of attaching them to me, no idea how to do that,” D’Arcy told Entertainment Weekly in July 2022. “For 24 hours, me and my partner just tried — I can’t put more emphasis behind that word. … We would send photos to [executive producer] Miguel [Sapochnik], and we thought we’d cracked it.
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