Los Angeles, Nov. 10 -- Actor Olivia Cooke has been consciously distancing herself from social media.

In an interview with GQ, Cooke, who portrays the controversial Queen Alicent Hightower in HBO's House of the Dragon, recently revealed that she took a break from social media ahead of the show's third season, citing the increasingly toxic behaviour within the fandom, Variety reported.

"I think some of those interpretations just catch fire, and they become something that bears no resemblance to what was shown on the screen at the time," said Cooke on the subject of the fanbases' theories and opinions (which include observations about Cooke herself as well as her relationship with the show's directors).

The uber-passionate fanbase was, i...