Harry Collett knew his time as Jacaerys Velaryon on House of the Dragon would eventually come to an end. That did not make him any less grateful for the opportunity.
"It's such a blessing to be in this show," Collett told Parade in an exclusive interview. "I don't think I'll ever get bored of talking about it or repeating myself, because this is a once-in-a-lifetime show."
That time arrives in the House of the Dragon Season 3 premiere, which sends Jace into battle and gives the young prince a brutal, heroic final stand.
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"My time has come for Season 3," Collett says. "It was probably meant to be in Season 2, but I've known the whole time. Even if it happened after me being in only one episode, I'd be happy."
Jace's final moments are quiet and sad, though not before he flies off to battle to defend his mother.
After taking flight with Baela Targaryen, played by Bethany Antonia, Jace and his dragon, Vermax, are overwhelmed in battle. Even after Vermax falls, Jace seems to survive but is struck by a barrage of arrows. Collett says filming the sequence allowed him to step outside the familiar sets and take on something entirely new.
“It is quite epic,” he says. “It’s something I’ve never done anything like before, and it was really, really interesting to get out of the same sort of sets and step outside and actually do some stunts for once.”
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Although the finished scene is devastating, the experience on set felt very different.
“I just thought of it as one big pile of fun,” Collett says. “Then, obviously, I saw the episode, and it’s completely different to the vibe on set.”
Before Jace rides into battle, he shares one final emotional scene with Baela.
Jace approaches her and tries to convince her to fly into battle alongside him. It is a choice that leads directly to his death, but the scene plays less like a reckless call to action and more like a quiet plea between two people who understand the danger waiting for them.
For Collett and Antonia, the weight of the moment was heightened by the knowledge that it would be their final dialogue scene together.
“I remember just feeling so proud and overwhelmed by how many years we’ve been doing this,” Antonia exclusively tells Parade. “Looking at Harry and being like, ‘My God, we’ve watched each other grow up a bit.’”
Antonia says she also felt the pair were producing some of their strongest work together.
“I felt like we were doing really good work,” she says. “I felt really emotional and proud of you.”
The actors filmed the scene twice. According to Collett, showrunner Ryan Condal contacted him after the first version was shot and asked them to return with a different approach.
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“We shot it the first time, which we didn’t really think about much, because you go on set, you do your work and then you come off,” Collett says. “But then Ryan gave me a call, and he was like, ‘I think we should do it with a different approach. We should play this differently because we’ve watched it over and it’s just not fitting in with the mood.’”
In the original version, Jace and Baela approached the decision with more excitement. The second version slowed the scene down and emphasized the emotional stakes.
“We changed up the whole mood,” Collett says. “We made it much more emotional. We were a bit excited the first time.”
The shift was important because Baela needed a convincing reason to follow Jace into danger.
“It needed to be calm, and just Jace explaining to Baela why he thinks this is a good idea,” Collett says.
Antonia agrees that Jace’s emotion and conviction needed to drive Baela’s choice.
“Initially, it was reading like he was so excited, and then she just went, ‘Oh, fine, let’s go,’” she says. “Actually, they needed it to feel like, for her, it was his emotion and passion that convinced her that it was worth going.”
The reshoot gave Jace’s final decision a more tragic quality. He's not a young kid rushing into battle, he knows what is at stake, but believes he must act and persuades Baela to believe in him to protect his mother, Rhaenyra.
That quiet scene makes the battle that follows even more painful. Jace enters the fight hoping to prove himself as Rhaenyra’s heir and protect her claim. Instead, his first true battle becomes his last.
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