![]() "I just kind of improvised that line, and reached out a little bit, because this to me is a tragic love story, in many ways. ![]() When he dies, he sees Aemma, and he says, 'My love,'" Considine shares. I always had an idea in my head, whether it was useful to the story or not, that the last thing Viserys sees before he dies is the person who comes to collect him from this mortal life. "The only suggestion is that he doesn’t quite know who he’s talking to. That was my thing for him, anyway."Ĭonsidine also reveals who he had in mind during his character's final, poignant breaths - as Viserys reaches a hand up to the sky and mutters "my love" before his death. When they offer suggestions to cure him, he doesn’t bother with it. It’s like people who surrender to illness. I think he accepts it as part of the guilt of the decision he makes to put his wife through a terrible, horrible procedure. It’s a slow death," Considine muses, referencing Queen Aemma's death by c-section in the series premiere. "Nowhere in the story does Viserys ask the maesters to cure him, to stop this thing from eating him alive. "From the minute of his wife’s funeral, I think Viserys starts to die. He emerges from a medically-induced, bed-ridden haze to make one final push to protect daughter Princess Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) and her children, wearing a Phantom of the Opera-type gilded mask on one side of his face as he ascended the Iron Throne for the last time. ![]() In his final days, the peaceful king's body was emaciated, his eye missing, and a large chunk of flesh torn from his cheek by his disease. ![]() ![]() Viserys' shocking appearance was a main point of Sunday's episode. I’m sure somebody will show me a photograph." Some people don’t like to watch themselves, and I’m one of those people. "No, I haven’t, and I’m not sure if I ever will," the actor responds. "I haven’t seen anything beyond episode 2, really. ![]()
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