House of the Dragon‘s Paddy Considine Gets Personal About King Viserys

In time of year one of HBO’sGame of ThronesprequelHouse of the Dragon , Paddy Considine played King Viserys , the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms — a character whose physical decay became more horrific asthe seriesprogressed . The actor has unveil he drew on deeply personal experiences to portray Viserys ’ agonise journeying .

In a fresh interview withVariety , Considine spoke about how both his mother and father put up from strong-arm illnesses . His father die of cancer , and whenHouse of the Dragon ’s eighth episode aired — the episode where Viserys dies after a prolonged unwellness — Constantine said that “ I was in another room because I did n’t require to see it . ” When he finally watched the scene , Constantine remembered that “ the end , when he lies in the bed , it was very shocking to me , because I looked the image of my daddy when he was dying of cancer . The image of him . ”

The mechanics of an actor playing someone who ’s dying are specially pregnant . “ When you [ act like you ’re dying slowly ] over a time period of days , and your external respiration ’s shallow — my oxygen level start out to go down , ” Considine recalled . “ I had to be taken off set and given steady fresh breeze , because I was intimately passing out . It ’s almost like your brain starts to tell your body that you are sick . It ’s really quite weird . ”

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In the interview he name his experience with his father in the infirmary , require himself if his founder was ready to leave or was just too scared to let go . “ But sometimes when citizenry expire , I finger like they make love . It ’s like when a heel go away to give out on its own , ” he said . “ And I matte up that very much with Viserys . ”

House of the Dragon time of year two is presently in productiondespite the on-going WGA smasher .

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