Matt Smith is opening up about touchdown a key role on the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon.
The actor appeared on the digital occasion GalaxyCon on Saturday and shared his pleasure in regards to the challenge.
He was requested about what excites him probably the most about becoming a member of the spinoff.
“Every part! I believe it’s going to be a extremely thrilling forged, I believe it is a fantastic legacy to be part of, and a beautiful world, and it is a fantastic half,” he mentioned.
“And, with out saying an excessive amount of, yeah I am simply form of trying ahead to driving a couple of dragons.”
“If I get to!” Smith added.
“I imply I do not know — who is aware of? Who is aware of what kind of goes on on this world?”
“I am trying ahead to getting began, and I believe, hopefully, with the folks concerned, it may very well be actually thrilling,” Smith concluded.
Information of Smith’s casting broke final week, alongside the information that Emma D’Arcy (Wanderlust), and Olivia Cookie (Bates Motel) can be becoming a member of in key roles.
Smith is on board to play Prince Daemon Targaryen, who’s the “youthful brother to King Viserys and inheritor to the throne.”
“A peerless warrior and a dragon rider, Daemon possesses the true blood of the dragon. However it’s mentioned that every time a Targaryen is born, the gods toss a coin within the air.”
Cooke is about to play Alicent Hightower, described by HBO as “the daughter of Otto Hightower, the Hand of the King, and probably the most comely girl within the Seven Kingdoms.”
“She was raised within the Purple Hold, near the king and his innermost circle; she possesses each a courtly grace and a eager political acumen.” D’Arcy is about as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, described as “the king’s first-born baby, she is of pure Valyrian blood, and he or she is a dragonrider.”
“Many would say that Rhaenyra was born with every part … however she was not born a person.”
Paddy Considine was beforehand introduced to play King Viserys Targaryen earlier this yr.
Viserys was “chosen by the lords of Westeros to succeed the Previous King, Jaehaerys Targaryen, on the Nice Council at Harrenhal,” in accordance with HBO.
Primarily based on George R.R. Martin’s Hearth & Blood, the collection, which is about 300 years earlier than the occasions of Sport of Thrones, tells the story of Home Targaryen.
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