“House of the Dragon” showrunner and co-creator Ryan Condal told a whooping audience at Shoreditch Town Hall in East London that Season 3 would deliver on the promise of the preceding season, and that the Battle of the Gullet sequence that kicks off the new season “is unlike anything that’s ever been done in television before.”
“All of the pot that was set to boil at the end of Season 2 very much picks up in Season 3, and you have these divided factions on either side, but there’s now divisions within the divisions, and those things will continue to fracture, and we’ll continue to see self-interested people do awful things in the name of pride and power and ego and self and family,” Condal told Empire’s Helen O’Hara, who moderated the session Friday at SXSW London.
Actor Steve Toussaint explained where his character, Lord Corlys Velaryon, also known as “The Sea Snake,” found himself at the start of Season 3, “When I first met Ryan, he said we’re going to start with a character who has everything, and we’re going to take it all away from him. Well, he’s on that journey. When we meet him at the beginning of Season 3, he’s still grieving his wife [Rhaenys Targaryen] and trying desperately to make links with his illegitimate son [Alyn of Hull], who doesn’t want anything to do with him, and so he’s having to deal with that, basically, and that’s a tough sell.”
