#hotd cast

[lightweightstar]

Olivia Cooke for Sunday Times Style, December 2025

[novaursa]

I sent in the ask in which I unintentionally mis-gendered Emma, it was an error on my part, I should read it before sending. However, someone else assuming ill intent when there was none isn't someone coming from a place of good intentions. I'm allowed to criticize Emma based on their work and contributions to the character they play, the same with everyone else who works on the show.

Anon, you have absolutely nothing to apologize to me for.

That person was clearly looking for something to argue about with me, cherry-picked your ask, and decided to assign malicious intent where there wasn’t any. I assumed you made a normal human mistake and responded to the actual substance of what you were saying. I’m not the internet’s grammar or pronoun police, and I’m not going to derail every conversation to publicly correct someone over an obvious error.

Accidentally using the wrong pronoun does not automatically make somebody malicious, nor does the planet stop fucking rotating because it happened. Context matters, and you’ve now made your intent perfectly clear anyway.

And yes, Emma’s work and creative contributions are open to criticism just like everyone else involved with the show. Their identity does not make their acting or interpretation of Rhaenyra immune from discussion.

You’re good, anon. That person was just being a jerk and looking for a moral argument with me that wasn’t there.

[novaursa]

Olivia said that two women who'd impact Alicent's life the most in season 3 are Mysaria and Alys, because thanks to interactions with them, she would learn how to explore her femininity and perform her womanhood differently. But I didn't notice now hanging out with them influenced her perception of womanhood?

Olivia and several other HOTD actors have been saying grand, vague nonsense about their characters for years that either never appears on screen or has no meaningful impact on the actual story.

Atp I don’t take those interview explanations very seriously. If I need a post-season interview to tell me Alicent supposedly had some profound awakening about womanhood, then the show clearly failed to communicate it in the first place.

[mejcinta]

Telling it as it is 🙏🏾

[lucerants]

Can't believe Matt and Olivia weren't lying about having no scenes together this season. Daemon and Alicent in the same castle and they didn't get to ragebait each other once!!!

[novaursa]

Do Condal and Hess have some kind of beef with Phia Saban? Every other actor, playing a character who died in season 3, was participating in various promotional events. I am aware Phia was then doing a play in NYC, but Harry, Fabien and even the Pirate Lady took part in events happening long before and after May/June 2026. She also did no hotd related photoshoots and gave no interviews

I really don’t know, anon. I wouldn’t claim there’s some personal issue without evidence, but everything surrounding Phia and the HOTD promotion has been noticeably strange.

Maybe there’s a perfectly boring explanation behind the scenes, but from the outside it definitely looks odd.

[novaursa]

Olivia and Ewan revealed that C&H give them some "agency" regarding their scenes. Which means they agree to do these awful scenes. Wish the fandom stopped babying the actors and acting like they were slaves of their agencies, contracts and writers or directors. It does not apply to Ewan and Olivia only, but to other actors from other projects as well.

I personally still don’t understand why some people automatically assume actors are being forced into every intimate scene they film.

Adult performers can set boundaries, discuss what they are comfortable with, and refuse things they are not willing to do.

This fandom really needs to grow up.

[novaursa]

I don’t get why Gayle is so insistent on this being this grand love story! She might think in her head, but what is translating on screen so far is NOT! for so many people.

It’s kind of embarrassing at this point.

She gives off the energy of a fan who gets to self insert rather than an actress playing the role.

It’s absolutely fine for people to have different interpretations, but saying that your opinion is the only one that is valid because you play her is kinda crazy 🤣

Gayle seriously needs to step away from social media for a while and put some professional distance between herself and this shitshow.