Matt Smith, who portrays Prince Daemon Targaryen within the forthcoming adaptation of Martin’s “Fireplace & Blood,” commented on how a lot his character finds himself getting all the way down to it in a brand new interview for the British Rolling Stone.

The “Physician Who” and “The Crown” star informed the outlet, per The Hollywood Reporter, “You do end up asking, ‘Do we’d like one other intercourse scene? And so they’re like, ‘Yeah, we do.’

“I assume you must ask your self, ‘What are you doing? Are you representing the books, or are you diluting the books to symbolize the time [we’re living in]?'” Smith continued. “And I really assume it is your job to symbolize the books in truth and truthfully, as they have been written.”

When requested particularly if he was referring to his personal character, if Daemon Targaryen has a number of intimate scenes, Smith replied with fun, “Yeah — barely an excessive amount of, when you ask me.”

Whereas it feels like “Home of the Dragon” goes to be as sexually charged as its predecessor (and chronological successor), that does not imply all issues shall be handled the identical.

After the unique got here beneath fireplace for its on-screen depiction of sexual violence, author and govt producer Sarah Hess informed The Hollywood Reporter final month that the brand new collection really “pulls again” on depicting sexual violence.

That does not imply that girls could have a better time navigating life in Westeros, although. Co-showrunner Miguel Sapochnik defined that “violence towards girls remains to be very a lot a part of the world.”

Whereas it is a fantasy realm with dragons and magic, Martin’s “A Track of Ice and Fireplace” can also be consultant of the true medieval interval (or one thing akin to it). “You’ll be able to’t ignore the violence that was perpetrated on girls by males in that point,” Sapochnik stated. “It shouldn’t be downplayed and it shouldn’t be glorified.”

The distinction, although, in accordance with Hess is how it is going to be depicted within the present. Whereas “Thrones” confirmed the violence, Hess defined that there’s “one occasion off-screen” of sexual violence, however the focus on-screen is extra about “the aftermath and impression on the sufferer and the mom of the perpetrator.”

“I feel what our present does, and what I’m happy with, is that we select to concentrate on the violence towards girls that’s inherent in a patriarchal system,” she stated.

“There are a lot of ‘historic’ or history-based reveals that romanticize highly effective males in sexual/marriage relationships with girls who have been really not of an age to consent, even when they have been ‘keen,'” Hess continued. “We put that onscreen, and we don’t shrink back from the truth that our feminine leads within the first half of the present are coerced and manipulated into doing the need of grownup males.”

Muddying the waters much more, Hess stated that these males will not be simply outlined as rapists or abusers, however quite “well-meaning males who’re unable to see that what they’re doing is traumatic and oppressive, as a result of the system that all of them stay in normalizes it.”

“It’s much less apparent than rape however simply as insidious, although another way,” Hess stated.

“Home of the Dragon” premieres Sunday, August 21 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.