Rhaenyra and Alicent's adult life on House of the Dragon may be consumed with civil war, but in the midst of COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, two sisters from other misters found each other halfway around the world.

English actress Emily Carey, then 17, who uses she/they pronouns, got their first glimpse of Australia-born Milly Alcock, then 20, over FaceTime. Alcock was sitting in the sun outside a library in Sydney, reading a book. Carey was in gloomy England, waiting to see if London would go back into pandemic lockdowns, as the city had multiple times already. "We were midway through crisis in London, and in Australia they were living their best lives," Carey, now 19, tells EW over Zoom in May. "We were mainly talking about the differences. That was the icebreaker."