WHAT DOES VISERYS HAVE? In a recent podcast interview with Entertainment Weekly, Paddy Considine — the actor portraying Viserys — revealed that his character has a kind of leprosy. “He's actually suffering from a form of leprosy. His body is deteriorating, his bones are deteriorating.
In an interview on Entertainment Weekly's podcast "West of Westeros," Paddy Considine (who plays Viserys) gave insight into what illness is plagueing Viserys. "He's actually suffering from a form of leprosy," Considine said. "His body is deteriorating, his bones are deteriorating. He is not actually old.
Viewers see the illness slowly take over Viserys's health as he loses strength and is unable to heal from minor cuts induced from the razor-sharp edges of the Iron Throne. Over time, various extremities are removed from Viserys, including fingers, an entire arm, and one of his eyeballs.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, actor Paddy Considine revealed that his character was suffering from a form of leprosy, which would be incurable at the time. The nasty wounds and legions festering on Viserys's back and arms were likely his downfall, especially after it took one of his arms and eyes.
If King Viserys did have leprosy that went untreated then we might have expected to see the damage to his body to be focused around his hands and his feet, which remained largely unscathed, as well as to his eyes. Disability development in the eyes, hands and feet are trademark signs of severe leprosy.
The goof-up—which was spotted in season 1 episode 3, “Second of His Name”—shows the king with two green fingers as he passes a scroll to a soldier. It was clear the digit coverings served as mini green screens that, somehow, went unnoticed during the editing phase.
In a recent podcast interview with Entertainment Weekly, Paddy Considine — the actor portraying Viserys — revealed that his character has a kind of leprosy. “He's actually suffering from a form of leprosy. His body is deteriorating, his bones are deteriorating. He's not actually old.
In a recent podcast interview with Entertainment Weekly, Paddy Considine — the actor portraying Viserys — revealed that his character has a kind of leprosy. “He's actually suffering from a form of leprosy. His body is deteriorating, his bones are deteriorating.
He does cut his hand on the Iron Throne, slicing off a couple of fingers. This leads to an infection and it kills him, throwing Westeros into choas. Interestingly enough, there is a theory that the Iron Throne hurts or kills those considered unworthy or weak.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor behind Viserys, Paddy Considine, revealed that his mysterious ailment is actually a form of leprosy. He explained: “His body is deteriorating, his bones are deteriorating. He is not actually old. He's still a young man in there.
The jagged edges are likely causing cuts that are then becoming infected, possibly leading to a condition (at least in the case of his finger) called "necrotising fasciitis", which the NHS says can lead to black blotches and blisters on the skin and may require "surgery to remove the infected area." It's a condition ...
The reason Viserys' wounds never healed is more symbolic than anything as routine as bacterial infection. The significance of being cut by the Iron Throne actually has deep roots in Targaryen history and Game of Thrones lore, dating all the way back to the throne's creation.
One of them, as pointed out by @inkbugfic on Twitter, directly relates to the symbolism of Viserys' golden mask, which is used to cover his body's deterioration from leprosy. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Paddy Considine, who plays Viserys in House Of The Dragon, confirmed that this was the king's illness.
Paddy Considine, who plays Viserys, has recently explained that his character is suffering with leprosy. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly's West of Westeros podcast, he revealed: “He's actually suffering from a form of leprosy. His body is deteriorating, his bones are deteriorating.
As you'll know from the first two eps, King Viserys suffers from an infection that eats away at his flesh (not nice, we know). And due to the two-year time jump in episode 3, it was noticed that his illness has since progressed, causing him to lose two fingers on his hand.
Greyscale does affect the flesh, which is where fans may have drawn the connection between Viserys (Paddy Considine) and the illness, however that is where the similarities end. Unlike Viserys' gangrene-like symptoms, greyscale kills off the flesh by hardening and calcifying the surface of the skin.
Literally — his body and face were crumbling. Viserys' deterioration happened slowly. First, it was a few festering cuts from sitting on the Iron Throne, then it was some missing fingers. After the 10-year time jump in Episode 6, he lost an entire arm.
House of the Dragon: Where did Viserys get leprosy? While he may have leprosy, the origin of his diagnosis likely links back to George R.R. Martin's Fire and Blood, teasing the true cause of his ill health: he caught the disease from the Iron Throne, because it rejected him as king.
We can presume that King Viserys Targaryen lost his eye as a result of his leprosy.
On the show's premiere episode, King Viserys cut his fingers while touching the Iron Throne, leading to an infected wound that eventually led to him losing a pair of fingers.
Viserys is so out of it, drugged up on anaesthetic milk of the poppy, that he can't answer whether he thinks Aegon's prophecy, the Song of Ice and Fire, will come true.
Daemon shows his genuine care and attention to Rhaenyra several times before the two marry. This doesn't take away from the many destructive and inappropriate parts of their relationship, but the books imply that Daemon does love Rhaenyra.
Viserys Wasn't the Oldest of Men
If the HBO prequel series matches the same timeline as the source material, Viserys was only 52 years old when he died. Despite his appearance in Episode Eight, that is no age to be bedridden and struggling to speak.
Alicent leaves, and Viserys is left in his agonizing pain. In his final moments, he says, “My love,” and he's referring to his first wife, Aemma. He actually mistook Alicent for his wife in House of the Dragon, episode seven, “Driftmark,” and it's his one true love.
Viserys is not a dragon because he is not a fire breathing creature.