Olivia Cooke, the British actress who plays Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon, had a very specific plan to make the tension on set more bearable: chaos. 😏
The actress asked the costume team for the biggest, most striking red merkin — the fake pubic hair actresses use in nude scenes — that existed, to match her hair in the series. What came next was worthy of a comedy scene: her co-star Fabien, upon seeing it, jumped to the other side of the room convinced it was real. “I thought it would be funny, but he was genuinely shocked and very anxious”, Cooke confessed with a laugh. 🔥😂
What started as an on-set joke ended up revealing something interesting: the quality of the makeup and accessories in productions on this scale is so impeccable that even the actors themselves lose their sense of reality. Or perhaps Fabien simply wasn’t expecting that level of artistic commitment from his colleague. 🎭
