Milly Alcock and Emily Carey Won't Return for House of the Dragon Season 2

We won't be seeing young Alicent Hightower or Rhaenyra Targaryen anytime soon.

Episode 6 of House of the Dragon saw the two performers who played young Alicent (Carey) and Rhaenyra (Alcock) replaced by Olivia Cooke and Emma D'Arcy after a 10-year time jump, and unfortunately for fans, we can't expect two see the younger two return - at least not for the foreseeable future.

Series creator Ryan Condal revealed that for now, they had no plans of utilizing flashbacks and bringing Carey and Alcock. "I mean, look, I don't know. [They] are not a part of the story that we're telling yet. That's not a thing that we're doing right now."

He noted that Game of Thrones had not leaned on flashbacks as a storytelling device, so he wasn't sure if House of the Dragon might go a different route. "There are things that we haven't fully sorted out," he said. "I'm not closing the door on anything. So there, how's that for an answer?"

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