Other than all the time jumps and perhaps Larys Strong and Queen Alicent’s feet bribes, I’m not sure there was anything related to House Of The Dragon I talked about more than King Viserys’ general appearance. And by general appearance, I mean how utterly disgusting he looked in the back half of the season. I’ve never been more physically repulsed by a character in my thirty-five years of obsessively watching movies and TV shows. I was convinced he was about to die repeatedly, probably because he looked like the sloth victim in Se7en crossed with Miracle Max from The Princess Bride with a touch of Immortan Joe from Fury Road.
Of course all that grossness was the House Of The Dragon production team’s goal, and more specifically, it was prosthetics designers Barrie and Sarah Gower’s goal. They were recently nominated for an Emmy for their incredible work, and Barrie opened up about the process to The Hollywood Reporter. Here’s a portion of his quote…
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