“Rhaenys chooses to step in, having said for the whole season “we mustn’t use dragons, anything but using dragons.” If he has to be done (…), then it’s better that she does it. Ultimately she is expendable, whereas Rhaenys is not.”
“I have to confess that as Eve, Luke's death affected me greatly. Every time we filmed with Elliot (Grihault), I would go cry in a corner afterwards because I couldn't even look at him knowing what was going to happen.” - Eve Best
“Rhaenys sees a lot of herself in Rhaenyra. (…) and I think in terms of wanting to protect her in season 2, it’s almost like she’s protecting her younger self.”
“I feel like your grandmother at Christmas.”
“I’m going to go to the Wild West cuz I just think I’d like to have a couple of six shooters on my hip.” -
@StevieToussaint
“House of the Dragon” drew 8.1 million viewers across HBO and Max in the U.S. for its fiery fourth episode of Season 2 on Sunday, just besting the audience size for the premiere last month.
For actress Eve Best, the journey is never really over. “I don't really feel she's gone. I never feel that,” Best says “I've been killed so many different ways in the past with different characters. I've been burned, stabbed, bitten by a snake. But I've never fallen off a dragon”
Rhaenyra knows in an instant she's saying goodbye to the only ever true mother figure she's ever had and you can see she wants to stop her, but that she can't.
"My dragon and I have a tender bond, so there's a scene where I leaned against that blue couch pretending to look lovingly into the eyes of my nonexistent dragon." - Eve Best
(On Luke’s death):
"Also, he was just such a beautiful spirit. He was just the most beautiful... In real life and in the show, he was just this most beautiful person, wasn't he? I think for all of us, it was just the most awful, horrendous thing that could have happened." - IGN
(What is your favourite line from the show and why?)
“I love the D word.”
“One of the lines that you say is a perfect mic drop. Daemon tries to give Rhaenys a command and she just walks out and goes “would that you were the king.” It’s just so brutal.” -
@StevieToussaint
Beloved daughter of Lady Jocelyn Baratheon and Prince Aemon Targaryen, faithful wife to Lord Corlys Velaryon, mother and grandmother, the Queen Who Never Was lived fearlessly, and died amidst blood and fire. She was fifty-five years old.
#HouseoftheDragon
“I think the hardest thing of all of the whole sequence, of the whole season, the whole moment, was watching her dragon be mauled and dying in front of her, knowing that there was nothing she could do, feeling that it was her fault and that she'd somehow let down Meleys.”
Rhaenys Targaryen Week!
From July 7-14,
@tqwnwthinker
and I are celebrating the life of Princess Rhaenys Targaryen by hosting
#RhaenysWeek
.
Celebrate Rhaenys with her fellow fans by sharing themed fan art, fancams, fics, etc all week. Show and book fans welcome!
“When Rhaenys wasn’t picked in Harrenhal, right at the beginning ... her spirit wanted to get on a dragon, burst through the ceiling and say, ‘Fuck you all’”
— Eve Best 👑
#RhaenysTargaryen
#HouseoftheDragon
#HOTD
#Meleys
“It’s an honor between the two women, which has always been very complicated. There’s support on the surface and amounts of guidance and wisdom, there’s still a sort of tension. (…) It was very important to me that Rhaenys is actually saying, “We’re good and the slate is clear.”
“There’s a WhatsApp group and I just — I get really overwhelmed. (…) there’s too many people, I don’t know who… and then everyone gets cross with me that I’m ghosting it and first of all I didn’t even know what ghosting meant until you accused me once of it in an interview.”
Most likely to lead you on read in an emergency:
“The person most likely to leave you on read, a bad texter, is sitting on my left.” -
@StevieToussaint
Oh my god, MASSIVE loss. What a disaster. Total disaster. Best fighter down. AND best dragon down. I mean the whole thing’s total chaos. But yes, if you’ve got to go, going on the back of a dragon in the middle of the best kickass fight that there’s ever been is quite a good way