βI wanted Rhaenyra to be stripped of her adulthood by the time she reaches the throne. She finds herself in this position where sheβs required to execute her fatherβs former best friend. When someone has known you from your childhood, I think itβs very hard to retain the jacket of your adult self. And again when she sees herself via Alicentβs POV, thereβs something of the two of them being children. This is also the court in which they grew up and the whole timeline is kind of laid bare between them in that look.β - EMMA D'ARCY

















