It’s like people who surrender to illness. I think he accepts it as part of the guilt of the decision he makes to put his wife through a terrible, horrible procedure. It’s a slow death," Considine muses, referencing Queen Aemma's death by c-section in the series premiere. "Nowhere in the story does Viserys ask the maesters to cure him, to stop this thing from eating him alive. "From the minute of his wife’s funeral, I think Viserys starts to die. He emerges from a medically-induced, bed-ridden haze to make one final push to protect daughter Princess Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) and her children, wearing a Phantom of the Opera-type gilded mask on one side of his face as he ascended the Iron Throne for the last time. In his final days, the peaceful king's body was emaciated, his eye missing, and a large chunk of flesh torn from his cheek by his disease. Viserys' shocking appearance was a main point of Sunday's episode. I’m sure somebody will show me a photograph." Some people don’t like to watch themselves, and I’m one of those people. "No, I haven’t, and I’m not sure if I ever will," the actor responds. "I haven’t seen anything beyond episode 2, really.
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