‘House of the Dragon’ Director Breaks Down Season 2 Finale’s Closing Moments: ‘Rhaenyra Is Caught in a Web and Alicent Is Free’

“House of the Dragon” Season 2 came to a close with another confrontation between Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent (Olivia Cooke), and director Geeta Vasant Patel once again handled the crucial off-book moment.

The pair’s first reunion came earlier this season in the septs of King’s Landing. Both that Episode 3 scene and the one in the finale — which centers around Alicent’s plea for peace, however late it may be — are creations of the show and never appeared in the “Fire & Blood” source material.