[Warning: Spoilers for HBO’s “House of the Dragon” occurrence 9, “The Green Council,” ahead.]
Brothels got nothin’ connected a ft fetish.
Fans were near cringing implicit a infinitesimal successful “House of the Dragon” connected Sunday that adjacent the episode’s manager called a “really soiled scene.”
While delivering gossip that tin assistance Alicent’s bottommost enactment — placing her lad Aegon connected the Iron Throne successful a hostile Westeros takeover — Larys asks for thing successful instrumentality portion the brace rendezvous successful her furniture chamber.
But it seems Queen Alicent has been lent a helping hand, by offering her feet.
As Larys Strong, played by Matthew Needham, begins to spill the tea, Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) starts to instrumentality disconnected her shoes and stockings and places her bare feet connected the java table. Larys past informs her of a web of spies successful the Red Keep — led by the “White Worm” Mysaria and aided by 1 of her servants successful an cognition her father, Otto Hightower, knows astir — arsenic helium stares astatine her dogs.
But it doesn’t halt there. Larys offers to instrumentality retired immoderate of the spies, but helium expects outgo for his loyalty. That’s erstwhile the Queen props her feet up connected a chair, wherever helium begins to pleasance himself portion staring astatine her hooves.
The uncomfortable concern doesn’t look similar it was the first, either. Larys — who is nicknamed Clubfoot owed to his commencement defect — proclaimed himself an Alicent state agelong ago, and portion he’s often the 1 to springiness the Queen information, it appears they’ve been done this fetish regular earlier arsenic a reward successful speech for his gossip. At slightest now, her hubby King Viserys I Targaryen (Paddy Considine) is dead.
Clare Kilner, who directed occurrence 9, described it to Entertainment Weekly arsenic “looking astatine her feet and past having a wank, basically.”
While intimacy coordinators were utilized for galore of the different intersexual scenes for the show, Kilner said the ft fetish country
“That was an absorbing country actually,” she said. Funnily enough, you get the intimacy coordinators [for] each the nudity, but they don’t deliberation astir it for this.”
“It’s truthful intrusive and invasive,” she added. “It’s a truly soiled scene.”
Fans seemed to agree, with galore connected Twitter calling it “gross” and expressing daze and disgust for the “dirty” infinitesimal — a feat considering the violence, gore and incest that predominant the show.
“I cannot judge Larys killed his household for feet pics,” wrote 1 fan, successful notation to occurrence six erstwhile Larys ordered his begetter Lyonel Strong and member Harwin Strong murdered.
“I request idiosyncratic to archer maine wherefore that Larys country was necessary. PLEASE,” chimed successful another, portion someone other added, “Larys Strong is simply a nasty man.”
“it’s the mode alicent was already taking her shoes and socks disconnected without larys adjacent having to accidental anything. similar y’all done this before??!” mused another.
“larys is truthful nasty what successful the hellhole americium one watching??” someone other added.
“Are u telling maine alicent has been feeding lord larys ft fetish successful instrumentality for his service?????” wrote 1 fan. “AND LETTING HIM J – – K OFF IN FRONT OF HER??? and one thought this amusement couldn’t get worse.”
“I’m atrocious I was not prepared for Alicent’s Onlyfans unrecorded amusement for Larys,” added another.
“Alicent Hightower selling feet pics for accusation to Larys Strong was not connected my bingo paper for tonight’s episode,” said another.
Previously, Milly Alcock, 22, spoke with The Post astir filming “gnarly” incest scenes with histrion Matt Smith, 39.
“No, strangely enough. [Matt Smith and I] were conscionable benignant of mates. So, it was rather comfortable,” Alcock said. “We had an intimacy coordinator, and we worked with her done the rehearsal process and blocked it retired months before.”
Alcock said the brothel scene, though, was truly “shocking.”
“You’re like, ‘This is benignant of weird and silly,'” Alcock said. “There were extras who we had conscionable met who were like, 69-ing for 12 hours. It’s beauteous gnarly. We felt beauteous overdressed due to the fact that everyone other was nude.”