{"id":510482,"date":"2026-03-03T00:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510482\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:37:10","slug":"a-knight-of-seven-kingdoms-actress-got-negative-comments-about-her-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510482\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A Knight of Seven Kingdoms’ Actress Got Negative Comments About Her Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFandom reaction to HBO<\/a>\u2018s debut season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms<\/a><\/a> has been nearly universally positive.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut there\u2019s one ugly element of the show\u2019s praise that\u2019s largely flown under the radar. <\/p>\n

\n\tLate in the six-episode season\u2019s run, a narrative began to take hold on social media that the show was doing well because it was \u201cnon-woke\u201d compared to certain other recent fantasy and sci-fi shows because it centers on two white male characters, Dunk and Egg (played by Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell), both of whom are portrayed in a very positive and heroic light. One part of the show that didn\u2019t align with this viewpoint was the casting of Tanzyn Crawford as Tanselle, a traveling performer from Dorne who charms Dunk, and some on social media have griped about the actress being in the show.<\/p>\n

\n\tTalking to Wonderland magazine<\/a>, the Australian actress addressed the issue for the first time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was intimidating to step into something that people are so connected to, love so much and have a lot of opinions about,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cI definitely did get some negativity around race, but at the end of the day, I\u2019m employed \u2014 and I\u2019m following my dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added that saga creator George R.R. Martin<\/a> assured her she was precisely what he imagined when he wrote the character in his novella, The Hedge Knight. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[Martin told me] \u2018You\u2019re exactly what I pictured [for Tanselle]\u2019,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cThe beauty of Tanselle in this series is she\u2019s a softer outlet. The rest of the show is very manly, quite harsh and brutal. I think she\u2019s self-confident and has her own little passions and worlds that are very separate from everyone else. Of course, her storyline involves Dunk [Claffey], but she has her own thing going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTanselle doesn\u2019t appear in the second Dunk and Egg novella, The Sworn Sword, which is being developed into the second season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. But Crawford does have a high-profile new gig in the works, having signed onto Netflix\u2019s live-action adaptation of the game Assassin\u2019s Creed.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms finished out its first season with its finale getting season-high ratings last week, earning 9.5 million viewers over its first few days. The show has also grown its viewership nearly every week during the six-episode season. Since its Jan. 18 premiere,\u00a0the show is averaging 26 million viewers worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fandom reaction to HBO\u2018s debut season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has been nearly universally positive.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99162,49,48,75,202926,5862],"class_list":["post-510482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-george-r-r-martin","tag-hbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}