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\nOlivia Cooke says she feels “protective” of Alicent:<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to be empathetic, and I feel f*cking sorry for her. I feel she\u2019s grown up into this patriarchal system and she\u2019s been brainwashed by her father to honor this lineage.\u201d <\/p>\n
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\u201cI do feel protective of Alicent,\u201d says Olivia Cooke. \u201cI have to be empathetic, and I feel fucking sorry for her. I feel she\u2019s grown up into this patriarchal system and she\u2019s been brainwashed by her father to honor this lineage.\u201d She discussed interactions from fans; \u201cThey\u2019ll take a picture, and then they\u2019ll be like: \u2018We HATE your character!\u2019 Sometimes people do say that with a lot of malice.”<\/p>\n
\u201c[Alicent has] really stirred up a lot of feelings,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s odd to be on the receiving end of that as someone who has only ever tried to convey her with as much complexity as possible… It makes me really angry that we\u2019re then supposed to just bow down and [pay] obeisance to these people that only want to say the most debased, hate-filled things. But thankfully, we\u2019ve all experienced it in our own way, and we\u2019ve got each other, which doesn\u2019t make it right. There\u2019s also been really wonderful interactions and I\u2019m so glad that Emma gets as much love as they do as well, because they\u2019re fucking fantastic and such a beautiful, wonderful human as well.”<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s only really getting worse,\u201d she says discussing misogyny in the outside world. \u201cI think about the women in Afghanistan who haven\u2019t had the right to an education or work for years now, the rise of Andrew Tate and [prominent U.K. far-right activist] Tommy Robinson dismissing any agency or autonomy that women should have as an innate human right. Obviously, we\u2019re so wonderful and so powerful and we\u2019re clearly something to be envied. And they want to take away all our rights because we\u2019re so amazing. I say that about non-binary people, trans people, about queer people in general. Despite the adversity, we are fucking incredible \u2014 and that makes straight men insane.\u201d<\/p>\n