The Targaryens are recognized for his or her distinctive lengthy, platinum hair, so clearly the producers wished to see what the character would appear to be. D’Arcy at present (and on the time of the audition) has very brief hair with buzzed sides.
Auditions for the sequence occurred throughout the pandemic, which made an already pretty frequent audition approach — the self-tape — a necessity. Usually actors will tape themselves on their telephones or with a house digital camera and ship it in for consideration. Earlier than the pandemic, it was typically a primary step within the course of, with in-person conferences after that, however as everyone knows, COVID modified the best way an entire lot of issues had been achieved.
D’Arcy advised EW that they needed to provide you with a “very speedy audition tape” for a sequence that they thought was a “Recreation of Thrones rip-off.” They recorded themselves on a cellphone (which the outlet says was “propped up in opposition to a bag of chips”) and despatched it in. There have been a number of extra self-tapes, after which a “digital dialog” with showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik (who simply introduced that he’s leaving the sequence). They requested if D’Arcy had a wig, and since shops had been closed, the actor needed to determine it out by themselves.