There has been debate in recent years on intimacy coordinators on set, with some actors even saying they think they're not needed. “It’s amazing to me that people had to just fudge their way through those scenes before those people existed,” she said. However, Cooke revealed to The I Paper that one stunt involving Tom Glynn-Carney (who plays her son, Aegon) was harder than she expected. Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon II Targaryen in House of the Dragon season 2 episode 4“I had to slap Tom Glynn-Carney in House of the Dragon,” she recalled. House of the Dragon is streaming on HBO Max, and The Girlfriend premieres on Prime Video on Sept. 10.