Nineteen-year-old Emily Carey feared shooting with 49-year-old Paddy Considine in Game of Thrones prequel but said he was a ‘joy’
House of the Dragon actor Emily Carey has admitted she felt “scared” to film sex scenes with her co-star Paddy Considine, who is 30 years older than her. Carey plays Alicent Hightower, the young queen to Considine’s king, Viserys Targaryen, in the Game of Thrones prequel.
The actor, who was 17 years old when she was given the scripts, was initially worried about recording intimate footage with an actor born three decades before her. “It scared me, because at that point I still hadn’t met Paddy, I didn’t know how much of a joy he was and how easy he was going to make [the scene], and all I saw was, you know, a 47-year-old man and me. I was a bit concerned.”
