With “House of the Dragon,” I think people have really set [Alicent] up to be the villain. I just don’t think she is at all. Number one, I think it’d be incredibly shortsighted to play any character like a villain. But there’s so much empathy that I have for her. She’s incredibly antagonistic at times, but I just don’t see her as that black-and-white villain that I think a lot of people see her as.
Queen of swords, mistress of grief, lady of tears — Olga Orozco, from Engravings: Torn from Insomnia: "To Destroy the Enemy."
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“[Rhaenyra and Alicent] are in my mind a divorced couple. They were in love as friends, and now they are apart.” — Geeta Patel, director of EPISODE 8: LORD OF THE TIDES
RHAENYRA TARGARYEN & ALICENT HIGHTOWER
in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON
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COLIN & PENELOPE
Bridgerton 3.04 — Old Friends
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But one is a stranger, a woman she notices while she sits on a bench, gathering herself. It’s a type of woman she has never seen before, because there are no old women in Barbieland. When Barbie looks at her, she finds her beautiful and tells her so. The woman already knows. Suddenly Barbie, the fraught aspirational figure, has beheld someone she might aspire to be, and it is a radiantly content nonagenarian, reading a newspaper on a Los Angeles bench, who knows what she’s worth.
“The idea of a loving God who’s a mother, a grandmother — who looks at you and says, ‘Honey, you’re doing OK’ — is something I feel like I need and I wanted to give to other people,” Gerwig says. When it was suggested that this scene, which Gerwig calls a “transaction of grace,” might be cut for time, she remembers thinking: “If I cut that scene, I don’t know why I’m making this movie. If I don’t have that scene, I don’t know what it is or what I’ve done.”
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