Milly just holds on for ride
ACTOR Milly Alcock is hanging on tight.
Stepping out for the world premiere of the much-anticipated Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, the rising Australian star is aware her life is about to change dramatically.
“I got really fortunate with this cast in the fact that not only is everybody incredibly talented but everybody is incredibly kind,” Alcock told News Corp Australia ahead of walking the red carpet alongside her big-name co-stars in Los Angeles on Thursday (AEST).
The screening followed a whirlwind week of international media interviews, appearances before thousands of hardcore fans at ComicCon and other engagements.
“As a lot of us are quite new actors to something this big,” said the 22-year-old, originally from Sydney. “This is a completely new experience for all of us and a world that we didn’t think we would ever get the privilege of stepping into so I am just trying to enjoy it all because it might get bigger than this and this could become normal and how beautiful that this is my first moment. Or it might never get any better than this. I am holding on tight … I want to sit in this feeling for a bit. I want to process it and try not to get too overwhelmed with the what ifs of it all.”
Among other cast members joining her at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures premiere were British stars Matt Smith, Eve Best, Emma D’arcy, Olivia Cooke, Paddy Considine, Emily Carey and Steve Toussaint.
The significance of the moment is not lost on Alcock,
until recently a comparative unknown, who has been working on the blockbuster TV project for more than a year. She has featured heavily in pre-promotion of the series and was pictured solo on the first major promo images for the production when they were released earlier this month.
House of the Dragon, which premieres express from the US in Australia on Binge
and Foxtel on August 22, is set nearly 200 years before the events of the original Game of Thrones. In it, Alcock plays a young Princess Rhaenyra Targaryan.
In Australia, she has become known for her work on hit Foxtel series Upright and has also appeared in Janet King, Fighting Season and A Place To Call Home.
“I don’t think anyone can prepare for a life change,” she
said. “It is not like I am going through something that a lot of people have experienced and so I think that there is an element that is quite daunting about that but I think that is why we are trying to lean on each other as a cast.”