One of the leading actresses of the new television series for HBO assures that there are great changes compared to the first seasons of Game of Thrones.
After announcing this new prequel to Game of Thrones for HBO with House of the Dragon and confirming its first interpreters at the end of last year, one of its main protagonists, Olivia Cooke, has assured in a recent interview that The Telegraph collects, that in this new series there will be no “outrageous and graphic violence against women” and that sexist situations will not be repeated as in the first seasons of Game of Thrones.
No gratuitous violence against women
This is what the actress Olivia Cooke has assured, arguing that in House of the Dragon there will not be scenes or situations of this type and that so much controversy caused during the first seasons of Game of Thrones, something that was changing in the second half of the series . And it is that Game of Thrones received not a few criticisms for the treatment of some female characters, something that changed completely from the fifth season.
“I wouldn’t feel comfortable being a part of something that features outrageous and graphic violence against women for free, just to be tempting to some viewers. I was lucky enough to read the scripts before and they have changed quite a bit from the first seasons of Game of Thrones. I don’t think they would be in their right mind if they were to include things of this type again today, ”says the actress.
Olivia Cooke will play Alicent Hightower, one of the most beautiful women in the Seven Kingdoms, daughter of The Hand of the King. Let’s remember that House of the Dragon takes us 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones, through a story focused on the Targaryen family. For the creation of the series, the novel Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin.
