King Viserys Targaryen does have a type of leprosy, according to actor Paddy Considine. He said that on the episode of Entertainment Weekly’s Game of Thrones podcast called “West of Westeros” where he was a guest.
Patrick George Considine is an English actor, director, and screenwriter who is also known as Paddy Considine. On September 5, 1973, he was born. He often works with Shane Meadows, who is a director and filmmaker.
In addition to the Silver Lion for Best Short Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, he has won two British Academy Film Awards, three Evening Standard British Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards, and other honors.
In his first movie with Meadows, A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), he played a small-town character named Morell who was a bit crazy. This was his first big screen role.
He won the award for Best Actor at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for his first leading role as Alfie, a troubled romantic misfit, in Pawe Pawlikowski’s Last Resort (2000).
Is King Viserys Sick With Leprosy?
Since the House of the Dragon premiere, the Game of Thrones prequel has made a point of showing that King Viserys is sick with leprosy.
He needs to be treated for sores often, and the question of who will rule after him is probably important because no one knows when the monarch will die.
Even though the prequel talks a lot about King Viserys’s pain, his illness is never named. And that shouldn’t be a surprise, since Westeros uses medicine from the Middle Ages.
If the characters don’t know much about Viserys’ condition, it’s hard to tell the audience certain things. But Paddy Considine knows what’s wrong with the king, even if the other characters never name it.
He really does have a condition that is like leprosy. His bones and the rest of his body are falling apart. He is not at all old. He’s still a young man there.
He just has something wrong with him that has taken over his body. It becomes a way to talk about being king, the stress and strain it puts on you, and the damage it does to your body and mind.
What are the signs that King Viserys has necrotizing fasciitis? Is it contagious?
On the West of Westeros podcast, House of the Dragon actor Paddy Considine talked about how sick King Viserys was. He called it “a type of leprosy” because it left scars on his character’s skin.
Viserys has a type of leprosy, according to the source cheatsheet. Considine went on to say that the character’s decline is in line with his time as king. He is hurting. His health is worsening.
Leprosy is a contagious disease in our world, but we don’t know enough about it to say if it was contagious in Westeros at that time.
Still, King Viserys and many of his friends are seen doing different things all over the realm, so there is no evidence of disease spreading in the show. So, it’s possible that the disease might not spread in Martin’s world of Game of Thrones after all.
How is King Viserys’s health right now?
Fans have made guesses about what’s wrong with King Viserys, with “Westeros disease grayscale” being a popular idea. However, Paddy Considine has made it clear what’s wrong with him.
It’s a metaphor for being king, the stress and pressure it brings, and the damage it does to your body and mind.
Viserys has a lot of stress in his life as heir to the throne of Westeros. His daughter Princess Rhaenyra, his brother Prince Daemon, and his wife Queen Alicent all cause him a lot of stress.
Due to a time jump, this is probably the last time we’ll see Viserys and Paddy Considine. In a later episode, they’ll all be older and played by different actors.
Viserys may still have a chance to live and rule again one day.
In “House of the Dragon,” King Viserys is sick with a skin disease
From the beginning of House of Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel has made it clear that King Viserys is sick in some way. He needs to have his sores taken care of regularly, and the question of who will be king after him is very important. This is likely because no one knows when the king will die.
Even though the prequel shows how much King Viserys is suffering, his illness is never named. And given that Westeros is stuck in the Middle Ages, that’s probably not a big surprise. If the characters don’t know much about Viserys’ illness, it’s hard to give the audience clear information about it.
But even if the people in the story never say what’s wrong with the king, Paddy Considine knows what it is. In a recent interview, he went into more detail about why Viserys has rashes and legions.
Paddy Considine says that the character he plays has “a kind of leprosy”
During an appearance on EW’s West of Westeros podcast, House of the Dragon actor Paddy Considine talked about King Viserys’ illness. He called it “a form of leprosy,” which makes sense since it leaves marks on the skin of his character.
Considine went on to talk about how Viserys’s disease is affecting him, pointing out that the character’s decline is similar to what he went through as king:
“He is sick with a type of leprosy. He’s in pain. His body is getting worse. His bones are going bad. So, he’s really not old. Inside, he’s still a young man. He just got this bad thing that has taken over his body. It becomes a way to talk about what it’s like to be king and how hard it is. And what it does to you in terms of your body. What it makes you think about.”
Viserys is probably getting more stressed out by all the fighting over his crown. He probably won’t be around for the real battle for the Iron Throne. And that might start up pretty soon. House of the Dragon is about to jump forward in time again, and the preview for episode 5 talks about Viserys’ future in a scary way.
The preview for Episode 5 of “House of the Dragon” hints that Viserys will die
Even though King Viserys has some kind of leprosy, he has made it to the middle of Season 1 of House of the Dragon. But the preview for House of the Dragon Episode 5 makes it look like the character will soon die. We’ve heard this before, but it makes the second half of the season sound scary.
Before leaving King’s Landing, Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) tells his daughter, “Prepare Aegon to rule,” and warns, “The king will die. If Rhaenyra takes over, war will happen.”
With The Dance of the Dragons set to be on the show, this is where things are going. But it’s still not clear if King Viserys will die of his illness soon or later. We’ll have to wait and see what happens next in his story.
Season 1 of “House of the Dragon” on HBO starred Emily Carey as Alicent Hightower. She has her face turned to the side and is wearing a green dress with shoulders that dip.
Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock) and Alicent Hightower (Emily Carey) have grown up in the last few episodes of House of the Dragon. For women in Westeros, that often means getting married, having sex, and having children. Episode 4 of House of the Dragon has sexual scenes with Rhaenyra and Alicent. Emily Carey was very nervous about filming her scene in Alien, especially since Paddy Considine is older and so is his character, King Viserys.
Alicent and Viserys have a sex scene in the fourth episode of “House of the Dragon”
House of the Dragon has had much less sexual content than Game of Thrones, but episode 4 gave viewers a few moments of closeness (albeit less explicit than those in the original show).
Rhaenyra Targaryen’s adventures with Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) and Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) have already caused a lot of talk online. But there’s another, quieter sex scene in Episode 4 of House of the Dragon. It’s not getting as much attention, but it’s sure to make people feel worse as they watch.
Alicent Hightower and King Viserys have been getting to know each other mostly behind closed doors up until this point. Alicent’s current situation is first shown to be making her unhappy in Episode 4, which is the first time fans see any sign of her being unhappy. She looks at the ceiling blankly as she and Viserys make love. It’s a scary moment, and House of the Dragon actress Emily Carey was worried about having to act it out.
Emily Carey talked about Alicent and Viserys’s sex scene in House of the Dragon Episode 4 in an interview with Newsweek. The 19-year-old actress, who was cast in the Game of Thrones prequel when she was 17, said she had some doubts about the scene between her character and King Viserys because it was so personal.
She said, “It scared me because I hadn’t met Paddy yet, so I didn’t know how much fun he was or how easy he would make [the scene].” “All I saw was a 47-year-old man and myself,” he said. “I was a little worried.”
Luckily, it looks like Paddy Considine and Carey built a good working relationship, which made these scenes less scary.
Carey also said that the House of the Dragon Episode 4 intimacy coordinator made things more comfortable. She told Newsweek:
“We have a wonderful person in charge of intimacy. Still being 17, the first scene I read from the show was my sex scene and my intimacy scenes. This includes the scene where I’m bathing the king. Anything that felt intimate was considered an intimacy scene, which I thought was great.
It’s great to hear that House of the Dragon is using intimacy coordinators to help its actors through these scenes. And it looks like the HBO show is going to a lot of trouble to show sex in a good way. In fact, episode 4’s director, Clare Kilner, is aware of how the “male gaze” frames things like this and made sure that didn’t happen.
The director of “House of the Dragon” wanted the sex scenes to be shot with the “female gaze.”
Inside the Episode for House of the Dragon Episode 4 on HBO talks about how the show handles sexuality. It doesn’t talk about Emily Carey’s scene in particular, but it does talk about the “responsibility” of showing things from the woman’s point of view.
Clare Kilner, the director, talked about how important it was to get Rhaenyra’s meeting with Daemon right.
“It can be really hard to direct scenes like that,” Kilner said. “It’s a big job, and it’s important to get the shot from the right angle.”
Kilner also talked about how she had to face her own biases, since she grew up watching men direct sex scenes:
“As a female director, I’ve grown up watching how male directors have handled sex scenes. And because I’m a woman, I have to really think about how to shoot it because the images I grew up with aren’t always from a woman’s point of view.
Flipping the script takes work on the part of the creators, but it’s an important thing to do. The people behind House of the Dragon seem to know that, which makes it less scary for everyone to shoot sex.
House of the Dragon has finally started on HBO, and after Game of Thrones’ last season, it’s probably not a surprise that fans have a lot of different feelings about the prequel. In the coming weeks, many of them will be shared on social media, but one House of the Dragon cast member won’t have to deal with them all the time. Emily Carey, who stars in House of the Dragon, says that she quit Twitter before the first episode of the show aired.
In “House of the Dragon,” who does Emily Carey play?
Emily Carey plays one of the most important characters in the House of the Dragon series. The cast is big, so it may take some time to get used to everyone. Carey gives life to Alicent Hightower as she was when she was younger. Alicent is the daughter of King Viserys’s Hand of the King, Otto Hightower. And from what we learned in the House of the Dragon premiere, it looks like her father will use her as a pawn in his plans to get closer to the throne.
Alicent is also Rhaenyra Targaryen’s (Milly Alcock) best friend at the start of the series, but it seems like the two could grow apart in the future. That will make fans cheer for one team or the other. Carey won’t have to deal with any hateful tweets about her on Twitter, which is good news.
Emily Carey quit Twitter before the first episode of the “Game of Thrones” prequel
Fans of shows like Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon have strong feelings about the shows, so it’s hard to blame the actors for leaving social media.
Between San Diego Comic-Con and the premiere of House of the Dragon, Emily Carey did that. In an interview with News.com.au, the actor said that she deleted Twitter, even though she likes social media, mostly because “it can be overwhelming” to be around for the responses.
Carey told the news site, “I love social media.” “I’m 19, so I’m all over social media. I’ve been on social media since I was a kid because I’ve worked since I was a kid, so I’m very aware of things. Every bit of hate that comes in is just… Behind the screen is a person. You have to just get over it.”
She added, “But I will say that after Comic-Con I did delete Twitter because it’s just so loud. Even when it’s good, so many people are there and it’s so loud.”
That makes sense, and House of the Dragon has already gotten a good amount of praise and criticism. What do fans say about the prequel to Game of Thrones?