Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Milly Alcock snuck her House of the Dragon co-star Fabien Frankel onto the Supergirl set, disguised as her make-up artist.
The 26-year-old actress worked on the superhero blockbuster at Leavesdon Studios in Watford, England, the same building where her old show – in which she played the young Rhaenyra Targaryen – is filmed and though she didn’t have time to visit the production, she managed to get the actor onto her set, but he almost ran into trouble.
She told Entertainment Weekly: “I snuck Fabien on [the Supergirl] set one day, and he almost got in trouble.
“Fabien was pretending to be Natalie, the make-up artist, because Natalie was our make-up artist on House of the Dragon.
“But Craig [Gillespie, director] loves to do this amazing thing where he doesn’t cut. So we rolled for like 20 minutes, and Fabien was just there, stuck in that lock-in.
Both Supergirl and House of the Dragon needed Milly to learn languages created especially for the fictional world, and she found Kryptonian in the movie much more difficult than the High Valyrian she was taught for the Game of Thrones spin-off series.
She explained: “I feel like Kryptonian was harder.
“I feel like High Valyrian was more Portuguese or Spanish. There were a lot of rolled Rs. There was a natural cadence that came out.
“High Valyrian felt like a different set of muscles, but the process of learning was the same.”
But she preferred the way she shot scenes riding a dragon in House of the Dragon – which required holding a mechanical buck on a soundtage – to her solo flight moments on Supergirl.
She said: “Wire work’s just brutal. There’s something really constricting about being in a harness and hanging. You can’t stand or sit very comfortably.
“If you have to go to the bathroom, you have to take off the costume and the harness and then the under costume. So it’s just very fussy.”
Milly thinks audiences will appreciate Supergirl/ Kara Zor-El for being more relatable than most superheroes.
She said: “The biggest battle that she’s had to face is with herself. There’s something incredibly accessible within that; there’s something incredibly relatable within that.
“I think that audience members will feel that this is a superhero that reflects who they are as opposed to who they’re told to be. I think that that’s really refreshing.”
