I mean, we kind of started that discourse. We were in the rehearsal room…I believe it’s Episode 4. I was sat on the bench. It’s not necessarily something we had talked about yet. We were doing that scene, and Milly and I looked at each other like, ‘It kind of felt like we were about to kiss? That was really weird!’ And so we talked about it.
We didn’t intend to play it. We weren’t ‘making them gay’ or ‘queerbaiting,’ or anything like that. It’s just, if you want to read into it and see it like that, do it. If you want to see them as more than friends, do it. If you don’t, then don’t.
Being a queer woman myself, it was something that I was conscious of. But I wasn’t consciously putting it out there. They’re 14-year-old girls, they don’t know the difference between platonic and romantic. They don’t even know what the words mean, let alone what the feelings mean.— House of the Dragon star Emily Carey, who played the younger Princess Rhaenyra in episodes 1-5, responding to accusations that her character’s relationship with Alicent Hightower (Milly Alcock) veered into queerbaiting. Find the full interview in Variety.
LumpyPillows
It’s a story with dragons. Don’t like it? Don’t watch it. Certainly don’t apply your gender and sexual [politics onto it. It’s a story about dragons where just about everyone is mean and cruel.
Cam
“They’re 14-year-old girls, they don’t know the difference between platonic and romantic. ”
Yeah, SUUURE 14 year olds don’t know the difference between a platonic friend and somebody they’re attracted to. I guess all those teen pregnancies occur between friends since teens don’t know anything.
bachy
Artists, writers, musicians and actors have always had an easier time passing through the ideological walls the rest of us are so frequently invested in erecting against the possibility of mutual understanding and compassion.
They demonstrate what could be by blurring the lines which only serve to divide our common humanity.