United Kingdom, June 22 -- House of the Dragon star Ewan Mitchell has admitted his character's kiss with his mum Alicent in the season three premiere of the show made him "want to throw up".

The highly-anticipated opening episode of the new series saw Ewan's Aemond lock lips with his parent, played by Olivia Cooke, 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 love...