SPOILER ALERT! This story accommodates particulars from Sunday’s episode of Home of the Dragon titled “The Purple Sowing.”
Rhaenyra has lastly discovered somebody to occupy the prickly again of Vermithor.
In Sunday’s episode of the HBO drama, the queen (Emma D’Arcy) has a casting name, of kinds, for native dragonseeds who might grasp a fireplace breather for battle. Many individuals perished in the course of the lethal audition — apart from a courageous bloke named Hugh Hammer.
Does that imply Hugh has some type of Targaryen blood pulsing via his bastard veins? Possibly, perhaps not. One factor’s for certain, although: Vermithor is all his to trip.
Right here, the U.Okay. actor who performs Hugh talks about taking pictures the pivotal scene and whether or not he’ll stick round Westeros for an excellent very long time.
DEADLINE Isn’t that cool? You’ll be able to say you’ve a dragon now. That’s your identification.
KIERAN BEW Yeah. I fairly like the way in which that Rhaenyra says Vermithor. I actually love that.
DEADLINE Are you able to speak about your audition? Had been you advised upfront that you’d be taming a dragon?
BEW I used to be not advised that, however after all the supply supplies are on the market and everytime you get an audition for something, you attempt to scour for info and clues to load your audition so that you do the very best job. After I obtained the audition, it wasn’t Hugh Hammer, it was simply HH as a result of every little thing’s tremendous prime secret lately. You usually need to signal NDAs to get sides, and there have been undoubtedly title adjustments throughout the textual content that I had, however they had been extraordinarily thrilling scenes. And sure, I knew that he was finally going to assert a dragon. It felt just like the stakes had been actually, actually excessive as a result of I desperately needed a dragon. I imply, who wouldn’t need one?
DEADLINE How way back did you shoot Sunday’s scene?
BEW August of final yr. We filmed it primarily via August and it was completely one of the crucial enjoyable issues I’d ever needed to do in my life.
DEADLINE So I would like you to interrupt it down. Did it begin with a lot of working with extras?
BEW For the journey to the Dragon Mount, we filmed a few of that in Wales. That’s the journey out of Kings Touchdown to Dragon Stone within the secret of the evening. We had been type of an extended line of extras for some time. We shot within the sewers that they used for the blood and cheese sequence that they constructed … these phenomenal units at our studios. The journey type of trudged via there, after which finally we obtained to Dragon Mount itself and we come out onto a plinth. We spent fairly just a few days taking pictures on the set the place that plinth is fairly raised off the bottom. We had crash mats on both facet, however you’re speaking a few 30-foot drop, 20-foot drop off both facet. So that you’ve obtained to be tremendous cautious. And then you definately’re speaking like 3-meter lengthy flame throwers and folks getting set on fireplace and fireplace gel and folks working via it. I feel my wig price about 20,000 kilos. So once you’re working via all of this hearth, there’s all kinds of issues that undergo your thoughts in regards to the totally different risks. Don’t fall off the facet, don’t get set on fireplace. Don’t overlook your cues. Don’t overlook, there’s an enormous dragon behind you. And that was simply on the highest of the plinth. After which there was days and days spent on the underside of the dragon pit working via the slate and throwing myself on the bottom.
DEADLINE I like that you simply had been involved about your wig. So that you had been actually round fireplace. That wasn’t CG magic?
BEW There was only a phenomenal quantity of fireside. The top of our stunt division has obtained to be the most effective within the enterprise and positively the most effective I’ve ever labored with. The quantity of firework he’s performed is form of legendary. So yeah, he is aware of once we’re secure and what number of toes we will be away from someone, however there have been a number of folks on fireplace at a number of totally different areas whereas we’re working via. And naturally they’re filming. We’re continuously trying on the security facets. It’s a harmful enterprise and you must watch out. Nevertheless it’s a lot enjoyable. One of many nights we shot out within the open air as a result of they burned so many individuals without delay. I feel it was the largest burn they’ve ever performed on Sport of Thrones and we needed to be outdoors. It was about 40 or one thing. Being round that itself is extremely particular to be a part of. After which be the one who is just not presupposed to get set on fireplace can be various strain.
DEADLINE So let’s recap your parentage. So we all know you had been conceived in a brothel, right?
BEW Properly, sure, probably a brothel. I don’t assume Hugh essentially is aware of precisely the place he was conceived, however he is aware of what his mother had been as much as.
DEADLINE Have you learnt who your dad is? Have you learnt your final title?
BEW I do know precisely who I’m. I don’t know who my dad is, however I do know precisely who my mother is. My mother is a really particular particular person within the guide and he or she comes with an unbelievable historical past of behaviors and defiance. And as I say within the present, he actually struggled with that. He’s by no means spoken about his actual heritage to his spouse. He’s by no means advised his spouse who his mother is as a result of he’s ashamed. And there’s a complete historical past that he’s tried to type of ignore to attempt to dwell a distinct life, being an illegitimate a part of this huge household. He’s been dwelling in a selected approach, attempting to be an honorable, an honest dad and a member of society. And he’s been doing an honest sufficient job, however issues are about to vary.
DEADLINE Do you assume we’ll ever discover out who Hugh’s dad is?
BEW I’m undecided. Possibly at some point. I feel that the numerous half is that my mother is a particular one who exists within the books and who’s the operative particular person.
DEADLINE Will we see you driving the dragon within the finale?
BEW Oh, you’ll need to see. I couldn’t probably say.
DEADLINE And can you say in case you’re coming again subsequent season?
BEW I’m most undoubtedly coming again.
DEADLINE The place do followers know you probably the most from?
BEW I made a present known as Warrior for Cinemax, which ended up on HBO. It was a HBO Cinemax manufacturing, and I filmed extra episodes of that with Loni Peristere, who directed episode seven of Home of the Dragon, than some other director. I’ve by no means made extra TV with a distinct director. So Loni is an extremely good buddy and I couldn’t consider anyone I’d need to work with on this episode extra. For Warrior, I performed a northern Irish cop known as Large Invoice. It was a TV present that’s set in San Francisco in 1878 and it’s in regards to the Chinese language diaspora, the Chinese language Tong battle gangs. And I play Large Invoice O’Hara, who’s a northern Irish playing cop with a giant household who’s in all probability…up till now … my favourite character I’ve ever performed. I did three seasons of that, so folks know me as Invoice.
DEADLINE So I think about you needed to maintain this a secret from all of the family and friends?
BEW Sure, I did, though I do have a 3-year-old boy who has grown up understanding that I set to work and hug a dragon every single day and he desperately needs to be a dragon rider when he grows up. And he got here to work with me at some point and was very fortunate. He obtained take a look on the armory and shoot a crossbow throughout the room. So he’s been spoiled rotten. And he did know that I had a dragon within the present. So I’ve been attempting to maintain him quiet for all these months. So he doesn’t inform all people that daddy’s obtained a giant dragon known as Vermithor.
