HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Cast Shares Incredible Audition Stories With Matt Smith, Milly Alcock & More

the path ahead is uncertain but the end is clear we are better defended against him whoever dares to challenge us the threat of war will lose the gods have yet to make a man who lacks patience for absolute power your excellency, what can Tell me about your

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story, how was it? Well, I didn't

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, honey, yeah, yeah, they offered me the part, so it was a great scene. I have a story, let me, let me tell you, so there's no story here, yeah, well. You know I don't, I only had one screen test, uh, yeah, one screen test and it was with Kate Rose James, who is fabulous and did very well, and yeah, she was the usual type of cannon fodder, she really tries and Do your best, get the lines right. order well we had very different experiences mine was unbearably long good months I recorded and then yeah the tape was really strange I had to do it like a whiteboard where basically you usually just say your name but I had to like doing zoom.

My eyes and then my nose and they kind of turned around, it was very strange. It was like they were looking for something really specific. I didn't hear anything and then it was two months before I got my withdrawal and then I got another withdrawal. I met the team and I booked it on my retirement day which is unheard of and then they brought it in very quickly yeah and mine was two soft tapes over a period of a month because I was Australian, I lived at home in Oz and I did a self-recording and then a week later I was like, "Oh, everything went well, here's a call back." I did two

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self-recordings and then two weeks later I got a phone call and then I had to wait four to five months.

I came back and started filming, so it was pretty strange and drawn out until now, yeah, it went on forever, yeah, so mine was like that, very mysterious, yeah, first of all, what happens is they send you a scene, uh, they change everything. names and uh you just record that and then they didn't even give you the name of the piece, they didn't know me either, it was just called this kind of neutral thing, this thing we're doing, um, I think that was the first stage and then the next thing which I think was that they sent another scene, they sent an actual scene from the show, but again you don't know what their names are, yeah, and then in my case, after I had done that, I had a virtual meeting with the two runners from the show, Ryan and miguel, the next day, i did a reading with the

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ing director and then there was a couple of weeks and then they came back and said oh, they would like to meet you face to face, so then i did that, i know you said that, yeah, oh, that's why you didn't understand it, I didn't understand it yesterday, so it was the two of us in a room, base, three of us, sorry, in a room talking and about the role and the scenes and so on, so we worked in the scene again and then I remember at the end they said it would be a couple of weeks, we'll have to send this to n a and so on, but actually within a couple of days I got a call saying that your sir called us and the process was

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or less the same for you, except without you, yes, it was something like that, except that I was in Italy at the time and was covered by very strict rules etc.

I couldn't travel so everything was done via zoom except not via zoom because I'm rubbish, I only have very limited technology and I only had a really crappy cell phone that also had a broken screen. so I did everything you know, I recorded all my stuff and tapes and I actually made this recording of my audition which I then sent them because of the nature of my junk technology, it was very atmospheric because everything the lighting was very good and I actually thought which was pretty good and then I hope I think very well I thought they were marveling at my filmmaking skills not my acting and they said no it's your acting but then anyway and then I did a um oh just yeah it went on for a long time time, yes, a lot, very long moments, months, months, in the end, um, ups and downs, yes, yes, there is a little bit that I have talked about before, but where I had an i finally met ryan and miguel for the first time in a zoom call and the girl asked me if I had a wig and I said what do you think Miguel sapochnick um and uh my partner and I had to create something with some hair extensions. which I had um, but as a proper DIY, can you imagine and send it to HBO?

Great, very embarrassing, um, yeah, keep in mind we haven't seen anyone for eight months, seven months, this is what my life has become. All stores are. closed, yes, you can't buy a wig, glue hair on my head and then pretend to be someone else and then send it to one of the biggest companies in the industry, so it could go in any direction, yes, it could go in any direction, I might not live this down, um on the blacklist, how long did it take you to do your makeup and costume? I mean they would split it up so yeah we would do about an hour on hair and makeup and we kinda had our 45 calls I just have no concept of time like an hour 45 to 2 hours yeah maybe it could change because I cut my hair, maybe yeah, so you would do that, you would do your hair and makeup and then you would put on your normal clothes and then I would go to the set and it would take you like 20 minutes to get into your costume and yeah, all that fun stuff, so a while, yeah, um, yeah, yeah, like extreme and really fundamental, I think for the character that I had an

incredible

time talking to. um Amanda and Ross um just talking about how that kind of relationship, for example, again with this emblem of Targaryenism, this one like blonde hair, how that relationship changes like she does throughout the series, I don't know, a little bit. more, a little more for him. tips around three hours at least, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you just think you're going to get a wig hit on your head and that includes going down a little bit and getting out, but it's not that simple and also the last one, how did she do it? They both get into the character of the project, the usual stuff, really, as much detailed work as they can beforehand and they know they dive into the context of the thing and then, yes, very warned before the wind, yes, different, it depended on different. scenes too, you know, as an actor, sometimes I have trouble with them, with the less dramatic things, actually the most difficult things for me are the more formal ones, but the dramatic things don't seem to be that difficult, but you just take each day and each scene as it really comes and give it what it needs, yes, gods, kings, fire and blood, dreams did not make us kings,

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s did make you.