{"id":5528,"date":"2026-08-18T19:36:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:36:56","slug":"house-of-the-dragon-star-wants-to-know-where-the-f-is-mushroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5528","title":{"rendered":"\u2018House of the Dragon\u2019 Star Wants to Know: \u201cWhere the F*** is Mushroom?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<svg><\/svg> <span>Logo text<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<strong>[This story contains major spoilers from the\u00a0<em>House of the Dragon\u00a0<\/em>season three finale.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5526\">Movie Theater Owners Reverse Course On Paramount-Warner Bros, Now Favor Settlement Talks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tOver the course of speaking with the\u00a0<em>House of the Dragon\u00a0<\/em>cast through three seasons and counting, I have a sense of which actors skipped reading George R.R. Martin\u2018s original book, those who\u00a0<em>have\u00a0<\/em>read it, and those who\u00a0<em>really really\u00a0<\/em>read it. Gayle Rankin falls into that last category, based on a question she asks me in our interview, so important as to be personally requested for our headline: \u201cWhere the fuck is Mushroom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIf you\u2019re like the first category of actors and haven\u2019t read\u00a0<em>Fire and Blood<\/em>, then you have no idea that we\u2019re missing out on one of the most extreme characters featured in Martin\u2019s in-universe history tome. In it, there are tales of a court jester named Mushroom, whose fictional tell-all about the Red Keep\u2019s royal happenings fuel what we know about the Dance of the Dragons. Sadly, this crude character is completely absent from the show, and with only one season left, time is running out for his arrival. Let it be known, readers: Gayle Rankin is as bummed about his omission as you are.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tConversely, Rankin is as hyped about her character, Alys Rivers, as one can possibly get. The so-called Witch Queen of Harrenhal (a title Rankin personally adores) has taken a central role in the narrative, first by playing head games with Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) in season two, and now falling in love with Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) in season three. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tIs she in love, though? And is Alys who and what she claims to be: the hundreds-year-old queen of Harrenhal, long forgotten, but cursed to be the lone survivor of the castle\u2019s fall? Below, Rankin gets into those questions and more about Alys. Alas,\u00a0<em>her\u00a0<\/em>question, the one in the headline? Still unanswered. (Come on, Ryan Condal! One more season left to do the cool thing!)<\/p>\n<p>\n\t***<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>What was your experience as Alys like this year, in terms of fan response?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tDifferent, certainly different. I don\u2019t follow or read a ton online because that way madness lies. My brain would break or my heart would break. I get the general sense that people were a little skeptical of Alys in season two, early on. They didn\u2019t really understand her or know where to put her. I do think as we let her unravel this season, there has been a lot of love. And so that\u2019s made me feel great. It\u2019s awesome. Look, I\u2019m in the business of making things for people to absorb, whether they\u2019re super into it or as long as it\u2019s causing some kind of a discussion, I\u2019m down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>How was it for you, unraveling Alys? What do you make of the mystery around her?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tI was able to read all eight scripts, so I knew where we were headed and we were headed somewhere much clearer than we\u2019ve ever ever been. And somewhere really fulfilling and dramatic and moving and beautiful, hopefully, and something that is going to make her make a lot of sense to people. And that was really satisfying. I\u2019ve really enjoyed the build of that. We\u2019ve gotten to see her feel this kind of power that we\u2019ve never seen her feel and develop, and then in more recent episodes, kind of lose a bit of control. I feel like it\u2019s a bit of a metaphor for love, connection, humanity. She\u2019s not had human connection for potentially hundreds of years. What has that done to her?<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>You\u2019re at the heart of several scenes that are stylistically different from most of what we see in the<em> Game of Thrones <\/em>franchise. With all these vision sequences, you get to almost pioneer what a <em>Thrones<\/em> show looks and feels like when it\u2019s getting into very supernatural territory. Does that feel rewarding?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt does. And we\u2019ve been developing it over the course of these years. I take my hat off to Ryan and the entire writing team because we took a lot of risks and didn\u2019t really know if they would work. We were all going in a little blind. There\u2019s not a lot of information about her. We took a really strong stab at who she is and the nature of her witchcraft and the prophecy and her relationship to the war and the battle, the <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> chessboard of it all. It\u2019s been really cool to have been let in and become a pretty big player, which I think is an honor. You want to be a big player.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5524\">No, Vecna Wasn\u2019t on Ozempic: How the \u2018Stranger Things\u2019 VFX Team Rebuilt Its Villain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Did you read any of\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Fire and Blood\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>to prepare for the part?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tI did. And I thought some of it was really pleasurable, especially when Mushroom says things about Alys.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Mushroom?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMushroom. I find that very tickling. I like that she bathes in maiden\u2019s blood! I found all the lore about her to be super interesting and more of an insight to George R.R. Martin\u2019s mindset about her. She\u2019s this powerful, mysterious woman who has mystery that shrouds her. I think the show has really given her an opportunity to expose what female power is in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Were there any moments George wrote about, or even lines of dialogue, that you wanted to make sure the writers brought in? Or even something described by Mushroom\u2026 Where is Mushroom, by the way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhere the\u00a0<em>fuck<\/em>\u00a0is Mushroom? Can that be the title of the article?<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>That\u2019s a great headline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cAlys Rivers Wants to Know: \u2018Where the Fuck is Mushroom?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>But\u00a0<em>beyond\u00a0<\/em>that\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThere\u2019s the idea that she is the Witch Queen of Harrenhal. When I read that, I was like, \u201cOh, shit. I want to be the Witch Queen of Harrenhal.\u201d If you\u2019re going to be royalty in Westeros, be that.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Do you think Alys authentically loves Aemond, or is she using him as a means to an end?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tI dare anyone in a relationship to ask themselves that question of their own relationship. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) All jokes aside, I think it\u2019s both. But I will say I really believe there is love there and real feeling. That\u2019s what\u2019s scary and fucking terrifying, and is going to get them all in trouble. There\u2019s real feelings. If\u00a0<em>Game of Thrones<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>House of the Dragon<\/em>\u00a0were all about killing people just for nothing, for literally a seat that\u2019s made of swords, it would not be interesting or dramatic. It\u2019s about people who love each other and hurt each other.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t***<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>House of the Dragon\u00a0season three is now streaming on HBO Max; read\u00a0THR<em>\u2018s finale coverage.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5522\">Major Theater Chain Cinemark Also Signals It Wants California to Settle With Paramount<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THR speaks with Gayle Rankin about the missing book character and the supernatural surrounding her character Alys Rivers after the season 3 finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[622,3207,1155],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-george-r-r-martin","tag-house-of-the-dragon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018House of the Dragon\u2019 Star Wants to Know: \u201cWhere the F*** is Mushroom?\u201d - US Property Moves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5528\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018House of the Dragon\u2019 Star Wants to Know: \u201cWhere the F*** is Mushroom?\u201d - US Property Moves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THR speaks with Gayle Rankin about the missing book character and the supernatural surrounding her character Alys Rivers after the season 3 finale.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=5528\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"US Property Moves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-18T19:36:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=5528#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=5528\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6dcb1ef8e64fe67b72b772b81aa822c\"},\"headline\":\"\u2018House of the Dragon\u2019 Star Wants to Know: \u201cWhere the F*** is Mushroom?\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-18T19:36:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=5528\"},\"wordCount\":1194,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=5528#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/54d05df9d78eb62c3b421105ad4301e7.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"Game of Thrones\",\"George R.R. 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