“House of the Dragon” Season 2 came to a close with another confrontation between Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent (Olivia Cooke), and director Geeta Vasant Patel once again handled the crucial off-book moment.
The pair’s first reunion came earlier this season in the septs of King’s Landing. Both that Episode 3 scene and the one in the finale — which centers around Alicent’s plea for peace, however late it may be — are creations of the show and never appeared in the “Fire & Blood” source material. Patel said those scenes excited her because the characters are magnetic together.
“What was interesting was that Ryan and the writers decided to only see them together twice,” she told TheWrap.