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Home of the Dragon star Tom Bennett has revealed he ate “over 30” quails in the course of the filming of a scene that aired within the season two finale this week.
*Warning – Spoilers forward for ‘Home of the Dragon’ season two*
Bennett performs Ulf the White within the Recreation of Thrones prequel collection, one of many characters who has been launched within the newest season. After bragging about his Targaryen heritage, Ulf is likely one of the lay folks chosen by Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) to try to tame a dragon and be a part of her forces in opposition to her half-brother, Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney).
Out of dozens of unlucky residents of King’s Touchdown who try the feat, Ulf is one in every of two survivors who efficiently manages to bond with a dragon.
Throughout a dinner scene in episode eight, Rhaenyra tells her new dragon riders that she is going to make them knights if they’re profitable of their struggle in opposition to Aegon and his allies.
All through the meal, Ulf exhibits his lowborn standing by being blatantly impolite to the queen-in-waiting and repeatedly shouting for “extra of those little birds” that he’s consuming.
“Whenever you’re the bloke saying, ‘Extra little birds,’ when these birds arrive, you need to f***king eat them,” Bennett says in a behind-the-scenes featurette.
“Tom ate two birds per take,” Bennett’s co-star Kieran Bew (who performs Hugh Hammer) says.
“There comes some extent within the day while you say to your self, okay, I’m being paid to eat birds at the moment and I’m gonna maintain doing it till I’m sick,” Bennett provides.
“It was over 30. 30 quails,” the actor says he ended up consuming.
The finale of Home of the Dragon has been met with combined critiques. Writing for The Impartial, tv critic Nick Hilton delivered a two-star verdict: “An issue the present has had from its outset is that it’s transferring inexorably in direction of the deaths of its essential and favoured characters.
“This second season has been a determined try and pump the brakes, to delay the onset of a struggle that can depart just a few, thinly written, survivors. It’s why the leftover plot feels so desiccated; the juicy meat of literal hearth and blood is being withheld.”
Regardless of the episode that includes notable character reunions, viewers complained that it didn’t really feel climactic – and as an alternative centered on organising what seems to be a extra action-packed third season.
The third season of Home of the Dragon will start manufacturing in 2025.
