Olivia Cooke tells THR on the red carpet for 'House of the Dragon' season 2 why everyone should be team green over team black. Plus, she reveals what it was like doing this season without Paddy Considine and becoming a viral meme with co-star Emma D'Arcy.
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00:00Congratulations on season two. I gotta say give us your best pitch. Why should everyone be team green over team black?
00:06I mean we team green of the most fun. I mean we do have the most fun and we're
00:12unpredictable and chaotic
00:14and you know
00:18We
00:21We have
00:22More dragons, I think I think we have more dragons. I did hear that. I did hear that
00:27So maybe maybe maybe don't quote me. I know a big part of your storyline included Viserys last season
00:33So what was it like doing this season without Paddy? It was strange man
00:36you know Paddy is such a big presence and such a formidable actor and he really brought this gravitas to the Red Keep and
00:44we sort of missed his
00:46Walking onto set doing his like Alan Partridge impression and using his cane as like a baton and twirling it around
00:51It was yeah, he was greatly greatly missed. And what was it like exploring Alicent this season?
00:57And what storyline or part about her character were you most excited to explore?
01:01I think what I was really excited to explore was like who is she if not for
01:06The the throne and trying to anoint her son and once that is done
01:10What is her purpose and as the power shifts and Rhaenyra starts to gain more power?
01:17It starts to ebb with Alicent
01:18There's always this like, you know, there's some invisible and umbilical cord holding them together
01:23And I think Alicent finds it really liberating
01:27And finally I wanted to ask I know you and Emma had mentioned
01:31Previously that you didn't necessarily enjoy becoming an internet meme. Does that affect the public part of your job now? No
01:37No, it was just weird. I think there was just like a moment in time. You sort of can't and
01:42Predict what's gonna go viral. Oh, no, it's all very strange world. We live in but no. No, I'm not gonna
01:49I don't think we're gonna go around
01:52Censoring ourselves. Also, that was the most innocuous thing ever as well
01:55like we were just trying to make each other laugh and we said so much shit that day that that was the one that
02:00stuck