“The apex of his ambition is not feet,” he said, amid audience laughter.
“As great as that is, it’s not.”
That included some foot talk.
Matthew Needham as Larys Strong in ‘House of the Dragon’.Gary Moyes/HBO
Despite the laughs, Needham offered thoughtful responses while dissecting the intent behind this sequence.
“I don’t think it’s a foot fetish like we understand in 2022.
I think it’s weirder than that,” he mused.
Olivia Cooke’s Alicent Hightower in ‘House of the Dragon’.Ollie Upton / HBO
“It’s not just about a man with a clubfoot being attracted to feet.
It’s that he can make her do it,” he noted.
“This is a very disturbed person with a lot of trauma… “He can cut out tongues and he can cut out eyes.
I think he likes that,” the actor continued.
“I think he likes making people incomplete.
He can’t do that with her.
So I don’t see it like he loves feet.
It’s the fact that she’s not into it and he can make her do it.”
Needham kept with his profound insights as the panel continued.
It reappears later in the season in the hands of Larys during pivotal moments with Alicent.
Needham said Larys likens Alicent to this plant.
“And I think that’s how he sees Alicent.”
While he doesn’t know the official meaning behind the symbol, he has his own idea.
He would, however, often offer a joke with his more seriously answers.
Show me your feet!”
