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Usually you guys [because of your age] would be casted in a bit lighter work. 
Was it on purposeful to have this thicker material when you were making your career choices? Rather than more like YA (young adult) fair?

Harry Collett (Jacaerys (“Jace”) Velaryon): For me, 100%, because I’ve been acting since I was 6, and, like, I just got sort of stuck in a rut playing, like, the same old characters all the time, which I’m really thankful for, because I was in work, and a lot of people, I know, obviously, would, like, die to play the roles and stuff. And, I feel like it was finally something I could do to… 
It was a mature role in my eyes. Do you know what I mean? And the writing is so, top tier, and it just felt really, really good.

Yeah.

Colette: So, yeah, I did, it was a proper good sort of career change in a way of being like, I can finally play older characters, as you know.

Bethany Antonia (Lady Baela Targaryen): I think, for me, I had done quite a lot of the YA, like, teen dramas, and I realized quite early on that I enjoy playing character roles, much more, like, if something is so far removed from me, whether that’s in how they dress, or how they speak, or I like something that feels totally transformative. So with this, it all the boxes, it was a totally different way of dressing, a different accent. A different style, a wig.

Colette: A different world, isn’t it?

Antonia: Yeah, and I think I just much prefer those sorts of roles where it’s totally transformative. 
I hope that it’s been a change towards more stuff like that. I think it feels like a big shift.

We’ve only seen half the story of House of the Dragon, but we know season three is about to come out, and then we also know that season four is the last season. 
For you as actors and you as people, how does it feel to know about the final season? Are you been like sad? Is it bittersweet? 
Are you happy that you know that there’s an ending and it’s not like, oh, we were all celebrating and then we don’t come back.

Antonia: I was saying earlier, it feels lovely that it’s in a world where things are cancelled so easily and things that you fall in love with, you can be, like, waiting for a second season and then you find out it’s something renewed or actually feels so nice to know internally. 
Like to have had [not knowing] when it was going to end and to know that we get to look forward to it rather than like fearing, are we picked up for the season? Feels like it can be ended in a way the creatives really intended it to be.

Colette: Yeah, I think that I’m just grateful to be in this show anyway, and I feel like even if it lasted one season, I still would have been like, “okay. “Like, the fact the fact that I’m so happy to even be a part of a world like this. Like I said, it couldn’t have lasted two weeks and I would have been grateful that I even got to do it in the first place anyway. But all good things must come to an end, though.

House of The Dragon airs Sundays on HBO.