‘House of the Dragon’ Star Emily Carey, 19, Admits She Was ‘Scared’ to Film Awkward Sex Scene With Older Costar

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It’s not all glamour and glitz. House of Dragon star Emily Carey wasn’t exactly excited to film sex scenes with her costar Paddy Considine — given their 30-year age difference.Carey, now 19, got real about the first intimate scene she shot with Considine, now 49, during a recent interview with Newsweek.“We have an intimacy coordinator who was amazing,” the London native told the outlet. “Again, still being 17, the first scene that I read from the show was my sex scene and my intimacy scenes, that includes the scene where I’m bathing the king — anything that felt intimate was considered an intimacy scene, which I thought was great.”During the Sunday, September 11, episode of the HBO drama, fans watched Carey’s character, young Alicent Hightower, bathe Considine’s King Viserys Targaryen in a tub.

Later on, Alicent is seen lying motionless as her much-older husband has sex with her.“It scared me, because at that point I still hadn’t met Paddy, I didn’t know how much of a joy he was and how easy he was going to make [the scene], and all I saw was, you know, a 47-year-old man and me, [so] I was a bit concerned,” Carey explained. “And having that outlet of the intimacy coordinator, to be able to talk everything through and not be shunned, or not feel awkward, or not feel like, ‘Oh, this isn’t your job.

I don’t want to make you feel uncomfortable but can I ask you…’ It was never any of that, it was just that open dialogue.”Despite being thrown into her more intimate scenes right off the bat, the actress felt very safe with the showrunners and production team. “[It was] a lot easier than I thought it was going to be,” she continued.While fans of Game of Thrones — which comes from the same creators as the House of the Dragon —