House of the Dragon Embraces All-Out War in Season 3: 'The Show's Gotten Bigger' When it comes to the specific circumstances that trapped three of the key House of the Dragon stars in New York City in late February, a very obvious Game of Thrones reference comes to mind. On paper, the conditions for Entertainment Weekly's season 3 cover shoot felt achievable. Emma D'Arcy, our reigning Rhaenyra Targaryen, was already staying in Chelsea while performing in Off Broadway's modern Antigone adaptation, The Other Place (with a fellow Thrones alum, Tobias Menzies, no less). Tom Glynn-Carney — playing Rhaenyra's adversarial half brother Aegon II — was also free on a days-long break in between performances of the London-based production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, with Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. That just left flying in Ewan Mitchell, Aemond "One-Eye" himself, to complete the trifecta of top contenders competing for the Iron Throne. A day before the shoot, a blizzard — nicknamed Winter Storm Hernando by the Weather Channel — swept across the Northeast. By Monday morning, most neighborhoods in Manhattan experienced more than 20 inches of snowfall. Public transportation and car traffic were severely limited, if not banned altogether. Flights were grounded. Somehow, despite the insurmountable odds, when crosstown travel wasn't even a guarantee, the shoot commenced. "Seeing New York in that atmosphere with the snow, it was Home Alone 2, you know?" Mitchell remarks when speaking to EW the following May. "It was just so cinematic." The proverbial winter on House of the Dragon is far less "ice" and way more "fire" as the Dance of the Dragons — the succession-sparked Targaryen civil war that's fated to cripple the empire and decimate the number of dragons in Westeros — rockets toward the endgame.#george_r_r_martin #house_of_the_dragon #ewan_mitchell #emma_darcy #ryan_condal
