Milly Alcock will soon take flight as our new big-screen Girl of Steel in DC Studios' Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and it was her acclaimed turn as the younger Rhaenyra Targaryen in the first season of HBO's House of the Dragon that initially caught James Gunn's attention.
It seems not everyone involved with the series was quite as taken with Alcock's work, however.
During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show, Alcock revealed that "someone very high up” on the Game of Thrones prequel series told her that she would be seeing an acting coach.
“On my second day on House of the Dragon, one of the... I’m not gonna say who, but someone very high up, pulled me aside and was like, ‘Um, we’re gonna get you an acting coach,’” the actress recalled. “It just confirmed everything that I’ve kind of known to be true, [which] is that I’m not very good at my job. You know what I mean! I was like, ‘I can’t do this. This is terrible. This is a big mistake.’”
It's possible that Alcock was simply nervous and may have taken a bit of time to fully inhabit the character, but most would tend to agree that she did a terrific job in the role.
As for Supergirl, Alcock is currently staying pretty tight-lipped about the movie while doing the press rounds to promote Netflix's Sirens, but she did tell IndieWire what advice she was given when she was preparing to step into the action-heavy world of superhero filmmaking.
“They were just like, ‘Prepare to be bruised, there will be battle scars, and you’ll be proud of them.' That definitely happened!”
"The prequel series finds the Targaryen dynasty at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires—real and imagined—crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins almost 193 years before the events of Game of Thrones, when King Viserys Targaryen breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm."
House of the Dragon season 3 sees Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno, and Rhys Ifans reprise their respective roles. Additional returning cast includes Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall, and Matthew Needham.
Season 3 directors include Loni Peristere (episodes 1,6), Clare Kilner (episodes 2,3,4), Nina Lopez-Corrado (episodes 5,7), and Andrij Parekh (episode 8).