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‘House of the Dragon’ Star’s Most Overlooked Role Officially Finds a New Streaming Home

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House of the Dragon Season 3 has been must-watch viewing for anyone with an HBO Max subscription these past few months. Returning on June 21, the opener, “Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood,” generated 21.5 million global viewers within its first three days, with the entire season so far averaging over 33 million global viewers per episode, making it the second most-watched individual season in HBO’s illustrious history.

Key to the show’s success has once again been the main cast, which includes the likes of Tom Glynn-Carney, Ewan Mitchell, Emma D’Arcy, Rhys Ifans, and Olivia Cooke. With the show’s third season coming to a close, fans will be looking for what to watch next. With that in mind, one of Alicent herself, Olivia Cooke’s, best miniseries performances is coming to streaming in the U.S. Back in 2018, Cooke starred in a seven-episode adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray‘s 1848 novel Vanity Fair, which aired on ITV across the pond.

Cooke stars as penniless orphan Becky Sharp in the adaptation, as she fights her way through the societal standards of Regency England after being given the position of governess in Hampshire. The series also stars Tom Bateman, Michael Palin, and a star of another beloved Regency era tale, Bridgerton‘s Claudia Jessie. The show received strong reviews upon arrival, scoring an 89% average rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with much of the credit going to Cooke’s “sparkling” central performance. Starting August 19, you’ll be able to stream 2018’s Vanity Fair on BritBox, the home of many beloved British titles.

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Collider Exclusive · Game of Thrones Personality Quiz
Which Game of Thrones House Do You Belong To?
Stark · Lannister · Targaryen · Baratheon · Tyrell

Five great houses. Five completely different answers to the same question: how do you hold power in a world that will take it from you the moment you stop paying attention? Eight questions will determine where your loyalties — and your nature — truly lie.

🐺Stark

🦁Lannister

🐉Targaryen

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🦌Baratheon

🌹Tyrell

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Someone powerful is acting dishonourably and everyone knows it. What do you do?
In Westeros, the answer to this question has ended more than one great house.





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02

What is the source of your power?
Every house endures because of something. What is it for yours?





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03

Who do you truly fight for?
Strip away the banners and the words. The honest answer tells you everything.





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04

How do you deal with your enemies?
A house’s method reveals its character as clearly as its words ever could.





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05

What kind of ruler do you believe in?
Westeros is full of answers to this question. Most of them end badly.





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06

You suffer a devastating loss. How does your house respond?
How a house handles defeat tells you more about it than how it handles victory.





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07

Which of these truths about Westeros do you most believe?
Every house has a philosophy. This is yours.





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08

The Iron Throne is within reach. What do you do?
The answer reveals not just your ambition — but your character.





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The Maester Has Spoken
Your House Is…

Your answers point to the great house whose words, values, and way of surviving in Westeros match your own. Bend the knee — or don’t. That’s very much up to you.

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Winterfell · The North

🐺 House Stark

Winter is Coming — and you have always known it. You prepare not out of fear but out of duty, because the people who depend on you deserve someone who takes the long view.

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  • You lead with honour even when it costs you, because you understand that a reputation built on integrity is the only one worth having.
  • Your loyalty to family and people runs deep — not as sentiment but as a code that doesn’t bend when things get difficult.
  • The North endures because Starks endure — not by being the cleverest players in the game, but by being the kind of people others are willing to follow into the cold.
  • You are that kind of person. The pack survives. The lone wolf dies. You already know which one you are.


Casterly Rock · The Westerlands

🦁 House Lannister

You understand the game — its rules, its exceptions, and exactly when the rules become the exception. You play it without illusions and without apology.

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  • You are sharper than most people realise, and you have learned to use that gap to your advantage.
  • A Lannister always pays their debts — and you always keep your word, because your word is an instrument of power, and instruments must be kept in working order.
  • You love your family with a ferocity that sometimes blinds you, and you know it, and you do it anyway.
  • The lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep. Neither, in the end, do you.


Dragonstone · The Iron Throne

🐉 House Targaryen

You carry a sense of destiny that is difficult to explain and impossible to ignore — the feeling that you are not simply participating in the world but meant to reshape it.

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  • You are capable of extraordinary things, and you know it, and that knowledge is both your greatest strength and your most dangerous quality.
  • Fire and blood are not just words to you — they are a philosophy about what change requires and what it costs.
  • The Targaryens at their best were transformative rulers who broke chains and defied the limits of what anyone thought possible.
  • At your best, so are you. The dragon has three heads. You are one of them.


Storm’s End · The Stormlands

🦌 House Baratheon

You are a force — direct, powerful, and difficult to ignore when you enter a room or a conflict. You do not negotiate with challenges. You meet them.

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  • Ours is the fury — and yours is a kind of intensity that commands attention, respect, and occasionally fear from those who underestimate what’s behind it.
  • You value strength and straight dealing. You’d rather know where you stand in a fight than navigate a web of courtly whispers.
  • The Baratheons built their house on the back of one of the greatest military victories in Westerosi history — and then struggled with what came after.
  • The lesson of your house is that winning is not the end of the story. Governing is. You are learning that too.


Highgarden · The Reach

🌹 House Tyrell

You understand that power does not always announce itself — that sometimes it arrives with flowers, good wine, and a smile that doesn’t quite reach the eyes.

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  • Growing strong is your house’s motto, and you live it: patiently, strategically, always investing in the relationships and resources that will matter most when it counts.
  • You are charming by choice and calculating by nature — a combination that makes you one of the most effective players in any room you enter.
  • The Tyrells fed King’s Landing and shaped its politics without ever sitting on the Iron Throne — and they were arguably more powerful for it.
  • You know that the person who controls the food controls the kingdom. And you always know where the food is.

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‘Game of Thrones’ Is Heading to the Big Screen

Olivia Cooke in ‘Vanity Fair’
Image via Prime Video

Just as House of the Dragon Season 3 comes to an explosive end, fans of the franchise have been rewarded with the news many had long hoped for. It was revealed this week that the franchise is officially heading to the big screen during a 2027 slate presentation. Warner Bros. Discovery officially confirmed that Aegon’s Conquest will be released as a theatrical event movie, “Beyond 2027, the slate will continue to leverage iconic intellectual property, including the theatrical event film Aegon’s Conquest from the Game of Thrones universe, the next installment of The Matrix, the next Batman film, and a live-action Jetsons film starring Jim Carrey, the company confirmed.

Starting August 19, you’ll be able to stream 2018’s Vanity Fair on BritBox.

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