While Dragon House season three aired on HBO for eight weeks last summer, Olivia Cooke was off the network. The actress who plays House Green matriarch Queen Alicent Hightower deactivated all of her social media accounts in April and only returned to Instagram in mid-October to promote Slow horses season six. In a new GQ interview, Cooke revealed she intentionally timed her digital detox HOTto avoid online discourse surrounding the series. “There’s a lot of ugliness in this fandom,” Cooke said. “It’s steeped in misogyny. There’s a lot of racism. I try to let that take up minimal mental space.”
This last season of HOT saw Cooke’s Alicent take several controversial actions in the name of his and his daughter’s freedom (you can already hear the gender double standards coming from behind) – spoilers for the third season ahead! Not only did Alicent help Rhaenyra seize King’s Landing and claim the Iron Throne, leading to her father’s beheading, her being held hostage in the Red Keep, and ultimately the suicide of her pregnant daughter, but she also shared a kiss with her second-born, Aemond, and appeared in his complex Oedipus sexual fantasy before poisoning him IRL. Even though Alicent was a relatively passive victim of almost everything that happened last season, some fans online still criticized Cooke and the directors for Alicent’s on-screen character arc, which has deviated considerably from the books. Meanwhile, Alicent finished the season in fourth place on Vulture’s power rankings. Anyway, we didn’t want to see Alicent locked up for the rest of her days!
This isn’t the first time Cooke has called out the toxicity and intensity of the fandom. Last year, Cooke said The Hollywood Reporter“Some fans have been horrible to our casting.” She added: “It really makes me angry that we are then expected to bow down and (pay) obedience to these people who only want to say the most demeaning and hateful things. » We implore these fans: Lykirī. Relax.
The fourth and final season of HOT will likely see Rhaenyra and Alicent at odds once again following Helaena’s death, which will undoubtedly polarize the fandom. Until then, let’s give Cooke the grace to resurrect his Instagram and his Slow horses character at peace.
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