SPOILER ALERT! This story incorporates particulars from Sunday’s episode of Home of the Dragon titled “The Pink 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 types, for native dragonseeds who might grasp a fireplace breather for struggle. Many individuals perished through the lethal audition — apart from a courageous bloke named Hugh Hammer.
Does that imply Hugh has some form of Targaryen blood pulsing by his bastard veins? Perhaps, possibly not. One factor’s for certain, although: Vermithor is all his to experience.
Right here, the U.Okay. actor who performs Hugh talks about capturing the pivotal scene and whether or not he’ll stick round Westeros for a great very long time.
DEADLINE Isn’t that cool? You’ll be able to say you have got a dragon now. That’s your identification.
KIERAN BEW Yeah. I fairly like the best way that Rhaenyra says Vermithor. I actually love that.
DEADLINE Are you able to speak about your audition? Have been you informed upfront that you’d be taming a dragon?
BEW I used to be not informed that, however in fact the supply supplies are on the market and everytime you get an audition for something, you attempt to scour for data and clues to load your audition so that you do the absolute best job. Once I bought 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 must signal NDAs to get sides, and there have been undoubtedly identify modifications throughout the textual content that I had, however they have been extraordinarily thrilling scenes. And sure, I knew that he was ultimately going to assert a dragon. It felt just like the stakes have been actually, actually excessive as a result of I desperately wished 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 by August and it was completely one of the crucial enjoyable issues I’d ever needed to do in my life.
DEADLINE So I want you to interrupt it down. Did it begin with numerous 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 night time. We have been form 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 form of trudged by there, after which ultimately we bought to Dragon Mount itself and we come out onto a plinth. We spent fairly a number of days capturing 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 bought to be tremendous cautious. And then you definitely’re speaking like 3-meter lengthy flame throwers and folks getting set on fireplace and fireplace gel and folks working by it. I feel my wig price about 20,000 kilos. So while you’re working by all of this fireplace, there’s all types 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 neglect your cues. Don’t neglect, 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 by the slate and throwing myself on the bottom.
DEADLINE I like that you simply have been involved about your wig. So that you have been actually round fireplace. That wasn’t CG magic?
BEW There was only a phenomenal quantity of fireside. The pinnacle of our stunt division has bought to be top-of-the-line within the enterprise and positively top-of-the-line I’ve ever labored with. The quantity of firework he’s executed is form of legendary. So yeah, he is aware of after we’re secure and what number of toes we will be away from anyone, however there have been a number of folks on fireplace at a number of totally different areas whereas we’re working by. And naturally they’re filming. We’re always trying on the security points. It’s a harmful enterprise and you must watch out. But it surely’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 executed on Recreation of Thrones and we needed to be exterior. 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 imagined to get set on fireplace can also be numerous strain.
DEADLINE So let’s recap your parentage. So we all know you have been conceived in a brothel, appropriate?
BEW Nicely, sure, probably a brothel. I don’t suppose 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 identify?
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 e book and she or he 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 informed his spouse who his mother is as a result of he’s ashamed. And there’s an entire historical past that he’s tried to form of ignore to attempt to reside a special life, being an illegitimate a part of this large household. He’s been dwelling in a selected method, making an attempt 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 alter.
DEADLINE Do you suppose we’ll ever discover out who Hugh’s dad is?
BEW I’m undecided. Perhaps someday. I feel that the numerous half is that my mother is a particular one that exists within the books and who’s the operative particular person.
DEADLINE Will we see you using the dragon within the finale?
BEW Oh, you’ll must see. I couldn’t probably say.
DEADLINE And can you say in the event 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 another director. I’ve by no means made extra TV with a special 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 struggle gangs. And I play Large Invoice O’Hara, who’s a northern Irish playing cop with an enormous household who’s most likely…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 hold 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 on daily basis and he desperately desires to be a dragon rider when he grows up. And he got here to work with me someday and was very fortunate. He bought 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 making an attempt to maintain him quiet for all these months. So he doesn’t inform all people that daddy’s bought an enormous dragon known as Vermithor.
