When it comes to House of the Dragon, and its predecessor Game of Thrones, they’ve never really shied away from showing anything. From intense violence to nudity and sex, the show is not afraid to depict any situation, and that was on full display in Episode 4 of Season 1 when Daemon took young Rhaenyra to a brothel, and she (and the audience) saw tons of fully nude people having sex. Now, the director of that episode has opened up about filming the highly talked about scene, how she did it with a female gaze, and why she didn’t “just want to point the camera at tits.”
Clare Kilner was tasked with filming the sequence of Daemon taking his young niece to a brothel while directing the episode “King of the Narrow Sea.” While speaking with THR she opened up about figuring out how to shoot the scene, and explained how she depicted it from the female gaze:
