{"id":168499,"date":"2025-12-04T22:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/168499\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:18:13","slug":"game-of-thrones-prequels-cast-at-ccxp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/168499\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones Prequel’s Cast at CCXP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms<\/a> brought the firepower to CCXP in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe panel for HBO<\/a>\u2018s forthcoming Game of Thrones<\/a> prequel series kicked off Thursday in Brazil<\/a> with a live brass band performing the original show\u2019s iconic theme music as cosplayers acted out aspects of the program. The actual event featured Peter Claffey, who stars as the titular Ser Duncan the Tall, aka Dunk, and Dexter Sol Ansell, who portrays Dunk\u2019s squire, Prince Aegon Targaryen, known as Egg. Its six-episode first season is set to premiere Jan. 18 on HBO, and the project has already been renewed for a second season<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhen the moderator asked Claffey how Dunk remains such a cool guy on the show, the actor replied, \u201cI don\u2019t know if he\u2019s \u2018cool,\u2019 but he\u2019s quite an anxious, nervous but very lovable guy. He just wants to do what\u2019s right.\u201d Claffey added, \u201cIt\u2019s a hard thing to do in Westeros, is try to be that chivalrous knight.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tClaffey said that his character learns quite a bit from the youthful Egg. \u201cDunk has a very black-and-white idea of how to do things,\u201d he said. Claffey explained that Egg\u2019s \u201cintelligence and knowledge\u201d about navigating interpersonal connections proves helpful for Dunk: \u201cIt\u2019s quite a symbiotic relationship.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen it was noted that Dunk is a direct ancestor of Brienne of Tarth, Gwendoline Christie<\/a>\u2018s character in Game of Thrones, Claffey said that he was a big fan of the original series and sees a link between his own work and what Christie did with her role. \u201cI loved Gwendoline Christie as Brienne,\u201d Claffey said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of aspects to Dunk\u2019s character that she shares.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tClaffey explained that the cast loved meeting with author George R.R. Martin<\/a>, who took the performers out to dinner in New York to celebrate the latest adaptation of his work. \u201cHe told Ira Parker, our showrunner and writer: \u2018Please don\u2019t mess it up,’\u201d Claffey recalled. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe panel included a video message from Fabien Frankel, who plays Ser Criston Cole on HBO\u2019s House of the Dragon, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau<\/a>, known for his role as Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones. \u201cI just want to say hi, and I want to welcome the new guy and wish him all the best of luck,\u201d Coster-Waldau said in the video. \u201cJust friendly advice: Try to keep all of your limbs intact.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tClaffey, who hadn\u2019t expected the video, appeared thrilled by it. \u201cThat is so cool!\u201d the actor said before marveling about Coster-Waldau: \u201cHe knows my name.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnsell told the crowd that he initially felt it would be a big decision to keep his head shaved as Egg, and indeed, Ansell\u2019s head appeared to have been recently shaved prior to the panel. \u201cThat was a lot to handle,\u201d the young actor said about knowing he would need to lose his hair. But it didn\u2019t take him long to embrace the change: \u201c[Ultimately,] I was like, \u2018Yeah! Let\u2019s do it.\u201d He added, \u201cShowers are a lot quicker.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe young star has appreciated his time bonding with Claffey away from the set. \u201cEvery weekend, me and Peter, we\u2019d be having Five Guys and having burgers and going to the arcade,\u201d Ansell said. This led Claffey to quip, \u201cI like to unwind on the weekend by kicking Dexter\u2019s ass in Mario Kart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore ending the panel, Claffey revealed that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms would soon be starting to shoot its second season. \u201cOn Tuesday, we start filming season two!\u201d he exclaimed to the enthusiastic audience. He didn\u2019t tease much about what he might be filming but noted that he and Ansell would be needing spray tans soon. <\/p>\n

\n\tAcknowledging that he had in fact seen the first script, Claffey said, \u201cWe just need to learn all our lines.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMartin and Parker co-created the Game of Thrones prequel series. It adapts Martin\u2019s Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas and is set 90 years ahead of the events of Game of Thrones\u2019 first season. <\/p>\n

\n\tFinn Bennett, who co-stars as Egg\u2019s older brother, Prince Aerion \u201cBrightflame\u201d Targaryen, previously told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> that he was convinced his initial audition for the series had gone poorly. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI thought I had flubbed it,\u201d the Warfare actor said earlier this year. \u201cI thought I had done such a terrible job in the audition, and I called [my agent] as soon as I came out and said, \u2018It didn\u2019t go well. It didn\u2019t go my way.\u2019 She phoned the office of the lovely casting director, Lucy Bevan, and they said, \u2018No, it went great. It went great.’\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms brought the firepower to CCXP in S\u00e3o Paulo. The panel for HBO\u2018s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47090,1083,146,463,68803,100123,4302,85,399,46,100124],"class_list":["post-168499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms","tag-brazil","tag-entertainment","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-george-r-r-martin","tag-gwendoline-christie","tag-hbo","tag-il","tag-international","tag-israel","tag-nikolaj-coster-waldau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}