The 27-year-old British actor plays Aemond Targaryen, the second son of King Viserys I Targaryen and Queen Alicent Hightower, who took vengeance on Lucerys Velaryon in season one, after Lucerys took his eye out as a child. Speaking on the red carpet of the series two premiere, he told the PA news agency: “Aemond, he is a multitude of things..
. “(In series one) I wanted to present a character who, at that point in his life and in those final three episodes, was just complete darkness. “His appearance kind of lended to that so I wanted to lean into it as much as possible.
“Going into season two you are going to see those other shades, you are going to see a shadow side to Aemond, which I can’t wait for people to see, and maybe you might even like him a little bit.” He added: “As for the violence in our show, I don’t think there’s any violence in our show for violence’s sake. “I always remember that moment in season one episode one during the tournament event, there’s a lot of violence and it made me feel a bit uncomfortable watching it, I think that was the intention.
” Ryan Condal, the series showrunner, reflected on what it was like to be at the helm of a show which serves as the prequel to the popular Game Of Thrones TV series, which ran for eight seasons. He told PA: “We’re our own challengers. Coming in with series one, our biggest challenge was, how do you follow the greatest act in television history? “The real answer is you can’t, you ju.
