It seems unimaginable, but Milly Alcock had never seen Game of Thrones when she clinched the role as one of the stars of its new spin-off House of the Dragon – which made it all the more impressive when she walked onto the set.
“I was just like, ‘Holy shit’,” she says. “I did not know that you could make television like this. And I think that this whole experience has opened the door to a world I did not know existed.”