Warning! Spoilers ahead for House of the Dragon season 2, episode 5.

House of the Dragon season 2, episode 5, director Claire Kilner explains the dragon head procession. After the intense events of season 2, episode 4, and the shocking deaths of Rhaenys (Eve Best) and her dragon, Meleys, episode 5 sees both the Greens and the Blacks dealing with the ramifications of the conflict at Rook’s Rest. House of the Dragon season 2, episode 5, sees Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) and Ser Gwayne Hightower (Freddie Fox) return to King’s Landing with the critically-injured King Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney), and they make quite the entrance by parading Meleys’ severed head through the streets.

In a recent interview with TheWrap, Kilner explains Meleys’ head parade in House of the Dragon, detailing the effect it had on the King’s Landing commoners. As the director explains, Cole severely miscalculated how such a move would be received. Check out her comments below:

“I really wanted Cole and Ser Gwayne to come into town – the knights saying ‘look what we’ve done, we’ve slain the dragon – and then smallfolk are already going through a lot at the moment because there’s a lack of food, things are getting a bit dodgy in their world.

“We had a ton of extras in Spain. They turn around and start to gradually swarm and surround and hear the clarion call of return and then see the head. It’s like a religious experience because it’s like their god has been slain. They really fall to their feet, and it takes a minute for Cole and Ser Gwayne that they’re falling to their feet in disgust and horror and fear.”

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Source: TheWrap