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It might seem a lifetime ago, but the duo were once each other’s closest confidants.

And that’s just scratching the surface of the turbulent history.

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“We very much framed this particular history around Alicent and Rhaenyra.

But we’re making a television show.

There were two natural choices for those core characters.

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So, it felt in the telling of that, that they would always have this interlinkage.

But we knew they would be separated by distance and by conflict.

So the idea became, ‘How do we keep them together?’

Daemon in House of the Dragon season 2

in a way.”

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