In the HBO series, the actor plays Alicent Hightower, who shares three children — Aegon, Aemond and Helaena — with King Viserys Targaryen ., Cooke admitted that she has mixed emotions over the fact that the actors who play her children — Tom Glynn-Carney, 29, Ewan Mitchell, 27, and Phia Saban, 25 — are all around her age in real life.“I have really complicated feelings towards it,” Cooke said in the article, published Friday.
She added, “It’s strange. I bristle a bit because the years between being a teenager and now a grandma on screen were so short for me.”Despite sharing a bizarre proximity in age with the co-stars who play her children, Cooke said she is “grateful for the role,” and called her grandmother character “hysterical to play.”“Because Tom is a year younger and I’m, like, ‘Son, come here! Come on to the bosom!’ It is a strange dynamic that I’m very aware of.
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