House of the Dragon's Emma D'Arcy worked very hard for their role

In their words, "I wrote a pros and cons list during the auditions process. The big one on the cons list was loss of anonymity, but probably that was a way of writing self-hate or something."

Their audition took place during the pandemic and they were at it for three months. Because of lockdown conditions, they auditioned via self-tape.

They stated, "I auditioned for three months during the pandemic after losing a year of work, so in some ways, I think my hands were tied. Halfway through the process, the then-showrunner, Miguel Sapochnik, called to ask me if I owned a wig. A proper person would've asked someone who does hair for advice."

D'Arcy cuts their hair, but their character, if you watch House of the Dragon, has long silver hair. But, luckily, they had a workaround, saying that they had a "bag of hair in [silver] from another job" and they just literally "stuck" the make-shift wig to their head every time they self-taped.

You would think that after all of that, they would get an email or a call that they had gotten the role. But that wasn't the case. They had to participate in a physical audition that took four hours. Worse, they didn't hear back from the studio for a long time.

Eventually, though, the call came. More importantly, D'Arcy took the opportunity and ran with it. And now, they have made imprinted their name in television history.

D'Arcy will next star in House of the Dragon Season 2, which began filming in April and was not impacted by the ongoing writers' strike. There have also been reports there will be a Season 3 andSeason 4 of the show, although we have not received any official confirmation for those.