“He never gets over that death, which was kind of misunderstood I think by people early on.
I think they thought I killed my wife, but that wasn’t the case.
They were both going to die.”
Paddy Considine’s King Viserys in ‘House of the Dragon’.Ollie Upton / HBO
The maester tells the king he has to make a choice.
Aemma dies first from blood loss resulting from the C-section.
Baelon dies shortly after taking his first breaths.
Paddy Considine and Sian Brooke as King Viserys and Queen Aemma in ‘House of the Dragon.'.Ollie Upton/HBO
“I don’t think he ever recovered from that,” Considine added.
“It just became the catalyst for his journey really,” he said of Viserys.
“He was only ever really in love with her.
And if you watch the show… the sicker he gets, he’s never asking for a cure.
He’s never the one asking for help.
It’s everybody else around him.
It’s almost like he’s accepting what’s happening to him physically as a punishment.”
Showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik and their crew kept that moment in.
“So that was it.
It was a line that was improvised.”
