‘House of the Dragon’ Director Says Episode 4 Sex Scenes Show ‘Young Women Want Sex as Much as Young Men’

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Note: Spoilers for “House of the Dragon” Episode 4 follow below.The “Game of Thrones” prequel series “House of the Dragon” harkened back to the flagship series in Episode 4, which at its heart was all about sex.

However, in contrast to the gratuitous nature of some of the sex and nudity that was prevalent throughout “Game of Thrones” (and the subject of much criticism), “House of the Dragon” took a uniquely feminine approach to sex in its fourth episode, thanks in part to director Claire Kilner.The episode finds the young Princess Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock) lured outside the castle grounds by her uncle Daemon (Matt Smith), who takes her to a brothel where the two start… coupling.

Daemon is fueled by a desire to get back at his brother the king (Paddy Considine), but when Rhaenyra is not only not shocked but interested in hooking up with Daemon, the prince is quite literally stunned.“He thinks it’s shocking to her but she doesn’t just get shocked, she gets excited by it,” Kilner said in a new featurette on the making of the episode. “And when that happens, he has nothing.

And he basically can’t handle not being in charge or in control. I think what it’s saying there is that young women want sex as much as young men.”Co-showrunner Miguel Sapochnik said that when it came to portraying this excursion, they had to balance Rhaenyra’s interest with the fact that she’s part of a gambit enacted by Daemon.“There was a lot of conversation about Rhaenyra not being innocent, and at the same time she is not the perpetrator of this,” Sapochnik says in the video.