Emma D’Arcy: ‘I’m desperate for a sword on House of the Dragon next season’

Emma D’Arcy: ‘I’m desperate for a sword on House of the Dragon next season’

The actor on modernising the Greek myths, performing opposite a tennis ball, and how their love of a negroni went viral

Born in Enfield in 1992, actor Emma D’Arcy studied at Oxford’s Ruskin school of art, where they discovered their love of acting through taking part in student theatre. A string of acclaimed London stage roles followed, including Against (Almeida, 2017) and The Crucible (The Yard, 2019). Then, breakout success came with the role of brooding queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, with a performance that earned them critical success and multiple award nominations. D’Arcy currently stars at the National Theatre in Greek myth-inspired drama The Other Place, by writer-director Alexander Zeldin.

What was it about the script for The Other Place that lured you back to the theatre?
Technically speaking there wasn’t a script to say yes or no to. I’d known Alex [Zeldin] for a little while, and had the pleasure of workshopping his previous plays, so he was the draw. He tends to orchestrate quite protracted development processes, where a company will meet every so often over a period of months, then he’ll go away and write each time. He’s an artist in search of a degree of truth that I rarely find in theatre, but that I crave.

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