Olivia Cooke on Alicent’s Liberation and the Sacrifice Made in House of the Dragon‘s Upcoming Finale

When Olivia Cooke, who portrays Alicent Hightower on House of the Dragon, touched down in Paris a few weeks ago to promote the HBO show, she was embarrassed. She was looking at large structures being assembled, and found herself in disbelief of the fuss they seemingly went to for the show’s French premiere. But then it dawned on her. “We’d just got off a flight and were like, “Oh my God. This is all for us. How embarrassing,’” she tells me over Zoom. “But then we were like, “Oh, it’s the f-cking Paris Olympics.