Home of the Dragon is a really severe present, like its predecessor Recreation of Thrones. However Matt Smith says Home of the Dragon isn’t so severe behind the scenes. The Targaryen throne is up for grabs to the subsequent era, and King Viserys (Paddy Considine) has to navigate his personal heirs and his brother, Daemon (Smith). However Home of the Dragon typically turns into a Monty Python sketch, Smith revealed.
Smith was a visitor on the Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused podcast on Sept. 22. Discussing Home of the Dragon with Josh Horowitz, Smith shared the comedic moments you by no means see on the present. New episodes of Home of the Dragon premiere Sundays on HBO Max.
With out the script, Matt Smith and the ‘House of the Dragon’ solid revert to Monty Python
The Monty Python comedy troupe had a whole lot of enjoyable with medieval knights, notably in their movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Home of the Dragon isn’t Arthurian, however they’re dressed in comparable armor with hearth respiration dragons throughout. So, Smith stated, the solid typically play Monty Python between takes.
“It’s like you’re in Monty Python at times,” Smith stated on Happy Sad Confused. “‘How dare you come at me? I’m going to point my sword at you and be really cross.’ Yeah, there is a lot of laughing when that happens.”
Smith referred to as co-star Graham McTavish the greatest Home of the Dragons clown.
“He’s a brilliantly humored man and he had a tough job at times because he’s in that armor all day,” Smith stated. “So did Fabien Frankel. They’re there. They stood there and the armor’s no fun.”
‘House of the Dragon’ isn’t all the time enjoyable for Matt Smith
Smith isn’t any stranger to science-fiction and fantasy, having performed Physician Who and starred in movies like Terminator: Genisys and Morbius. Home of the Dragon could also be the most demanding, so he wants humor to get via it.
“I quite like the physical stuff because the days go quickly,” Smith stated. “The worst days are — I was very lucky in that I was not in a huge amount of them – the counsel scenes. You’re sat round, you’ve got to talk, they’ve got to move the camera, again, again, again. That’s a pain in the ass but I wasn’t in those and I asked them. I was like, ‘Please don’t put me on the Small Council.’ I don’t know if I was meant to be on the Small Council, but…”
Getting bodily and getting severe
After all, Smith can’t goof off when the cameras are rolling on Home of the Dragon. Daemon needs to be lethal and scary. Smith walked via the scene at the finish of episode 3.
It was an extended course of. There was a whole lot of rehearsals concerned there. It began out as a totally totally different scene which I cherished. I can’t discuss it however I actually campaigned to maintain it that means however we ended up with this for a lot of causes which I used to be nonetheless actually happy with. Yeah,there’s a whole lot of operating on the sand and rolling and combating and I really like all that as a result of it makes the days go rapidly. I’d by no means finished that on Physician Who, clearly not with The Crown. There’s a little bit of combating in Morbius however once more not with swords in order that was a part of it I used to be trying ahead to vastly.
Matt Smith, Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused podcast, 9/22/22
It’s good to know there’s some levity on the set. Home of the Dragon is so severe, it might be devastating to dwell like that each one day. They need to have enjoyable making exhibits for our leisure.