House Of The Dragon star Olivia Cooke has addressed the ‘odd’ one-year age gap with Tom Glynn-Carney who plays her son in the series. Despite the two playing mother and son, there is only actually a one year age gap between them as Olivia is 32 and Tom 31. Addressing their closeness in age, Olivia noted it was ‘odd’ as she asked: ‘does Hollywood just not want to see women age?’ Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Joshua Horowitz she said: ‘When I found out that Tom Glynn-Carney was auditioning for my son, I was like, “Oh, I was like, are they gonna like recast Alicent again and like, like do another age jump? How’s this gonna work?’Josh asked: ‘Where are you at with it now? They’re wonderful actors.’I love them with all my heart. I think spiritually, me and Tom are related. It’s odd, isn’t it? House Of The Dragon star Olivia Cooke, 32, has addressed the ‘odd’ one-year age gap with the actor playing her son as she asked ‘Does Hollywood just not want to see women age?’ Olivia and Tom Glynn-Carney play mother and son but there is only actually a one year age gap between them as Olivia is 32 and Tom 31 (Tom pictured) ‘I feel many things about it. I feel like God, is this just like the industry? Is it just Hollywood? They don’t want to see women age, you know?’I think it’s a big leap for the audience to make, or maybe I’m just a fantastic actor. Let’s go with that.’It comes after Olivia’s other on-screen son Ewan Mitchell spoke out on his shocking scene in the opening episode of the new series.The highly-anticipated series three premiere saw Ewan’s character Aemond kiss his mother Alicent on the lips during a tense conversation.Speaking to People, Ewan described the moment as one which ‘kind of makes you want to throw up in your mouth a little bit’, and added: ‘Yeah, it’s kind of shocking.’It’s quite a difficult pill to swallow, isn’t it? Kissing your mom on the lips, especially in that way. I think what you see in that scene in episode 1 is that skewed love.’I mean, Aemond, growing up, he never felt like he was loved enough by his mom and his family around him, and a kid needs that unconditional love to develop a balanced view of themselves.’And Aemond, because he never had that, he’s got a very skewed perception and a very strange way of showing love.’ She said: ”I feel many things about it. I feel like God, is this just like the industry? Is it just Hollywood? They don’t want to see women age, you know?’ (the pair pictured in the show) It comes after Olivia’s other on-screen son Ewan Mitchell spoke out on his shocking scene in the opening episode of the new series as he kisses his mother Alicent on the lips Despite the controversy surrounding the scene, Ewan added he also saw it as a ‘tremendous challenge and an opportunity to show Aemond in a new light’.While getting to film it with co-star Olivia was a ‘masterclass’, he explained.He added: ‘Working with Liv Cooke in that scene is just — it’s a masterclass working with Liv Cooke in any scene, yeah she’s a real one.’Showrunner Ryan Condal meanwhile explained to Entertainment Weekly how Aemond is ‘somebody that was traumatised at an early age by his brother by taking him to a brothel long before his brain could probably process what was happening.”As these things do, that trauma then manifests a certain way in his behavior as an adult.”While I don’t think that Aemond is necessarily in love with his mother, I don’t think he’s able to separate the feelings that he has for her from these other male feelings that he experiences.’Olivia also reflected on shooting the scene, and admitted it was ‘quite odd for both of us’.She mused: ‘There has been this Oedipal undercurrent — unbeknownst to Alicent. And I think it’s shocking’.The actress also said the kiss is ‘really dangerous’, as Alicent knows her son is a ‘very dangerous person’.Olivia explained: ‘She knows that one wrong facial expression, one perceived rejection, will cost her her life. So she’s trying to tread very, very carefully. But I do think she’s sort of stupefied in that moment.’