Not that Rhaenyra is Cole’s friend, but Cole is Rhaenyra’s confidant in a lot of ways. It’s like that friend of yours that you sort of subconsciously were always in love with, but they’re your friend, and that’s how it is. I don’t think Cole is ever looking at Rhaenyra going, I’m in love with you. In episode three, Cole offers to kill Jason Lannister for Rhaenyra, and it’s sort of a joke, but I’m wondering how early you think Cole’s protective feelings toward Rhaenyra change into lust, love, or romance. It’s a real juxtaposition, that thing: You look a certain way, but you are something different to that. If you watch the original show, you read the books, the Dornish are looked at like pirates almost - real scum of the earth, real “They live like barbaric animals.” There’s no social structure that is implemented in this world that exists in Dorne, and the fact that he’s not born in Dorne but is of Dornish descent means that he’s looked at in the same scandalous way as a Dornish character from Dorne would be, but he’s born in Blackhaven. But it even furthered him being an outsider. Martin’s doing or Ryan and Sara’s adaptation of George’s writing - and I guess that would have to have been approved by George because I know that he’s very involved in all those decisions. That’s why I thought it was interesting that they made him Dornish, whether that’s George R.R. It feels scandalous, like you’re subversive just by existing in this space. That’s very clear when he takes off his helmet and there’s the “He’s Dornish!” response. A bad day for Criston, that’s his head on a spike, you know? It’s a really different thing. A bad day for Rhaenyra, she gets a telling-off from her dad. Especially in the first half of the show, it was so much for me about reminding himself of how much it had cost him to get to this place, and how much it meant to him, and how the stakes were very different to him than what they were for everyone else. ![]() It was trying to understand the mentality of what it would be like to come from a world that is so far removed from this world and then to arrive at this place. We can come back to it! You wrote a letter to yourself, to Cole, after he reaches the tournament we see in the premiere when he unseats Prince Daemon. In Fire & Blood, he’s still of Dornish descent. In Fire & Blood, Cole is not Dornish, so I’m curious about that change - if that was a result of your casting or if that was already in place once you were cast. But Frankel is open about finding inspiration for Cole’s Dornish roots via his own paternal Iraqi English heritage, and the existential crisis the knight goes through after his relationship with Rhaenyra gets complicated. Along those lines, he avoided answering some of our questions about the motivations driving Cole, whom he describes as an instinctive fighter and killer. To secure the part in House of the Dragon, Frankel auditioned for a character named “Ser Clint” with “dummy sides” that were typical of this franchise’s secrecy, which has “gun-to-my-head, head-on-the-spike” implications, he says. It’s a lot! And when Cole nearly takes his own life at the end of “We Light the Way,” Frankel imbues the character with an openness and rawness that are at odds with everyone else’s practiced, smug imperiousness and that also signal a path forward for the character as Queen Alicent’s new ally. He betrays Rhaenyra’s trust by telling her rival, former friend turned stepmother Queen Alicent (Emily Carey), that they had sex and gives into his feelings of rage and jealousy by murdering Ser Joffrey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod), the lover of Rhaenyra’s fiancé, Laenor Velaryon (Theo Nate), at Rhaenyra and Laenor’s wedding. He breaks his vows by sleeping with Princess Rhaenyra ( Milly Alcock), who then rejects his suggestion that they run away together. ![]() In the season’s fourth and fifth episodes, Cole tumbles through an arc that emphasizes his outsider status amid these nobles as both a lower-born man among royalty and an individual of Dornish descent living in King’s Landing. Spoilers follow for House of the Dragon through its fifth episode, September 18’s “We Light the Way.”Īs the Targaryens, Velaryons, Hightowers, Strongs, and Lannisters fight among themselves for power on House of the Dragon, Kingsguard member Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) is increasingly pulled into their scheming as the series’ clearest example of upstairs-downstairs tension.
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