The tenderness of it all

Jen | 26 | UK | Queer & In a relationship Lover of all things that feeds my moody soul

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EWAN MITCHELL at The Tonight Show, July 10th, 2024

for @theoneeyedprince to bless your day<3

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THEY'RE SO FUNNY HELP😭😭😭

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TOM GLYNN-CARNEY PHOTOGRAPHED BY EDDIE BLAGBROUGH FOR VESTAL MAGAZINE.

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Ewan for HERO magazine

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Oh my god I love you

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“I have begun badly.”

House of the Dragon 2.03 | "The Burning Mill" — dir. Geeta V. Patel

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Who was this woman? A serving wench who dabbled in potions and spells, says Munkun. A woods witch, claims Septon Eustace. A malign enchantress who bathed in the blood of virgins to preserve her youth, Mushroom would have us believe.

GAYLE RANKIN as ALYS RIVERS House of the Dragon | Season 2, Episode 3

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022–) Season 2, Episode 3, “The Burning Mill”

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“She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.”

Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden.

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"I think we see why Aegon's respect for Helaena grows, because she's the only other person in this environment that really knows what this pain is. And seeing that look in Helaena's eyes when they cross on the stairs, they don't say much to each other, but they communicate through pain." – Tom Glynn-Carney

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Olivia Cooke talks about her experience filming with Phia Saban in Cáceres for season 2 of House of the Dragon.

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Because I'm your brother. Then why do you cut me so deeply?

2.03 "The Burning Mill" 1.06 "The Princess and the Queen"

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That look in Aemond's eye

When his eye flickers upward, it's like he realizes yet again that his brother is a large part of why he is the way he is. He runs back to the woman his brother took him to when he was 13, finding that with her that's the only safe place he really knows, and suddenly, that safe place is taken away because his brother so crudely reminds him of where he would be without that comfort. Again, completely heart breaking. There's no fault here on Sylvie; you can see she feels for him. Even if it's not in a lustful love, she cares for him because he bares all to her. We won't know if he's ever talked to her about Aegon, but you can tell she feels it. Even Aegon's friends felt the discomfort. When Aemond walks away, his anger just takes over and he shuts down again. Aegon took away the safety of being with her, and Aemond now sees it as just another moment in his life that Aegon has taken from him.

Being with Sylvie might have healed him if Aegon hadn't done that.

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The light enters and I remember who I am;

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Watcher", from Selected Poems

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"Ewan is such a great actor. He understands what he needs to do in order to portray Aemond. When I spoke with him originally about the nudity, I said to him, “Let’s just go through the story. If you don’t feel comfortable being nude, then you’re not going to be nude.” We were both on the same page in that way. We started walking through, and he walked me through his character. One thing about directing that’s really important is to surrender to the actors, and the actors surrender. It’s a mutual surrendering. In this case, Ewan knew his character so well that I was listening to him and walking with him as we went through every episode before this.

What we came to is that Aemond was hurt. He was bullied when he was little. Since he was hurt, he had created this persona that was the exact opposite of how he was feeling. He created a persona of someone who doesn’t give a fuck. That shift, from someone who’s vulnerable to literally watching him put on his armor, was what we were going for in that scene. It’s one of the few times you see the young child in him and you see the pain in him. Slowly he starts putting on his armor and when he stands up, the fact that he doesn’t care that you see his penis is such a strong visceral shift. And so, of course, Ewan was like, “I want to be fully nude in that moment. It’s important to me because that’s who my character is. That’s what he would do.” And that’s what we did."

— Geeta Patel.

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EWAN MITCHELL as AEMOND TARGARYEN House of the Dragon S2E3 - "The Burning Mill"