Matt Smith questions the number of passionate scenes ‘House of the Dragon’ will show

one of the greats criticisms that have been made of “Game of Thrones’was about the explicit and passionate scenes it showed throughout its history. Now, the situation is repeated in ‘The House of the Dragon’ and it is one of its protagonists, Matt Smith, to question the need for this type of sequence in the intent of the same series.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Matt Smith has questioned the passionate scenes of “House of the Dragon”, the spin-off prequel to “Game of Thrones”. The actor confessed that at one point he asked if it was really necessary to do “another” scene of this style, where intimate and passionate moments of the main characters of the story are simulated.

According to him it wasn’t really necessary, but when he brought the question to the showrunners of the Prequel to “Game of Thrones”.’did not get the same answer. On the contrary, the creators replied that they should be made and shown in the story.

You end up wondering “Do we really need another sex scene? And they say, ‘Yeah, we need it.’ It makes you think,” she said.

The actor confesses that, from his point of view, the creators should adapt the books on which the series is based, which in this case is “Fire and Blood” by George RR Martin. And that, on the contrary, should not be diluted completely with the time and context in which the story is placed, because that would be the justification for the passionate scenes of the series.

It makes you think, ‘What are they doing? Are they adapting the books or watering them down to represent the time it is set in? “And I think their job should be to represent the books truthfully and honestly, just as they were written.”

The truth is that George RR Martin’s books also turn out to be quite explicit when it comes to the passionate but not always violent scenes against women that were continually shown in “Game of Thrones”. So it will be necessary to see the work that Miguel Sapochnik has done with these kinds of sequences and how different they are from those of GOT.

The creators justify the passion of “House of the Dragon”

‘House of the Dragon’ writer and executive producer Sara Hess spoke about the theme of passion scenes in the spin-off series and made it clear that the prequel will not feature any “explicit” sexual violence against women, but that it will not they would stop representing intimate moments of their history because it was part of it and of time.

We do not avoid the fact that our protagonists are forced and manipulated to carry out the orders of adult men who cannot see that what they are doing is traumatic and oppressive, because the system in which they live normalizes it, “he said.

Other creators of ‘House of the Dragon’ like Mihel Sapochnik have also commented on the style, making it clear that this type of scene is part of the “context” of the story and the time it takes place: 300 years before all the events that took place. took place in “Game of Thrones”.