[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for House of the Dragon, Season 2 Episode 2.]
Home of the Dragon Season 2, up to now, has proven actual dedication to creating positive each episode ends in some type of bloody tragedy. In Episode 2, that tragedy comes within the type of a fearsome duel between two brothers, as equivalent twins Ser Arryk Cargyll (Luke Tittensor) and Ser Erryk Cargyll (Elliott Tittensor) battle over the lifetime of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) — Arryk having been despatched to homicide the Queen, and Erryk sworn to defend her.
It’s an intense sequence with large stakes, one which leaves each brothers useless: The loser slain by his twin, with the “victor” dying by suicide instantly afterwards. However in the event you’re not completely positive which twin was which, in the long run, know that even showrunner Ryan Condal struggled to inform the actors aside generally throughout their time on the present.
Throughout a roundtable interview with press, Decider‘s Meghan O’Keefe requested Condal instantly in regards to the finish of Episode 2, and which twin met which destiny.
“The way in which to recollect is that Arryk [with an A] goes with Aegon,” Condal stated. “And Erryk [with an E] is performed by Elliot Tittensor.”
Which means that Arryk, who had infiltrated the fortress to assassinate the Queen, is formally the one who loses the battle, and it’s Erryk who wins, however then can’t dwell together with his victory over his brother. “That’s Erryk on the finish, who falls on his sword on the finish,” Condal stated. “When he says ‘Your Grace’ to the Queen, that’s when she is aware of who it’s, primarily based on his deal with.”
It’s simply one other instance of how the names on Home of the Dragon can generally be a bit difficult to trace, one thing Condal admits freely. “It was very complicated final season as a result of we had Luke and Elliott Tittensor because the Cargyll twins. After which we additionally had Elliot [Grihault] who performed Luke Valerian. So that you’d begin saying Elliot and Luke, and ‘Are we speaking in regards to the character or the actor or no matter?’”
Condal additionally famous that the 2 Tittensors actually are simply “very laborious to inform aside. Elliott has tattoos throughout his arms, which is nice once they’re not in costume. However the minute they put the costumes on, then you’ll be able to’t inform them aside.”
Added Condal, “They informed us their very own mom confuses them, they usually’ve tricked their very own mom by altering their beards or no matter. Though, on the finish, I may do it, and I turned very, very pleased with it.”
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Condal had loads of reward for the 2 males, calling them “wonderful actors and performers. They did that total [fight] themselves. They studied that choreography, they discovered it from [stunt coordinator Rowley Irlam]. They did that entire battle on their very own. And it’s so unimaginable and shifting.”
It’s one other bleak second in a present filled with them, and Condal stated that the tone is “one of many issues we’re most aware of. I feel as we get deeper and deeper into the story, and in the event you’ve learn the guide, that it form of will get bleaker as we go alongside. It’s all the time going to be darkish and excessive stakes, however how do you discover these moments of humanity in it? And I feel you simply actually lean on the characters. As a result of the state of affairs with the struggle, it doesn’t get higher till it ends. That’s simply the character of these items.”
Continues Condal, “However you hook into these characters, who’ve these very human experiences. There are dangerous those who develop and change into extra human because of the pressures that they’ve been put by means of — they’re pressured to look inside and rethink. After which the acquainted relationships that we’ve with these characters, that we all know love one another and possibly have been separated by the struggle and seeing them come again collectively… I feel these are the issues we’ll search for, to attempt to discover some mild within the darkness of a nuclear struggle.”
For extra, learn our conversations with the solid about how Season 2 leans on the metaphor of nuclear war. New episodes of Home of the Dragon debut Sundays on HBO and Max.
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