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'House of the Dragon' S3: Aegon and Larys hit the road
Season 3 sends the injured Aegon and his spy Larys on a desperate road trip. Their patience and loyalty are tested.
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NEW YORK, July 25 (UPI) -- Season 3 of the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, lightens up the political intrigue and war-time violence by showing disputed Iron Throne heir Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) on what amounts to a medieval road trip with his Master of Whisperers Larys (Matthew Needham).
"For Larys, it's about being out of control. He's used to sort of machinations in court and he's used to controlling people in, not calm environments, but less hectic than this," Needham told reporters in a recent virtual round-table interview.
"Suddenly, he's in the wilderness, with a crazed, sort of rage-fueled person that he has to try to shepherd to safety," Needham added. "His patience is tested. He's a patient person, but it's really stretched to breaking point this season."
"Sorry, mate," he teased, addressing Glynn-Carney directly.
The pair are forced to disguise themselves and go on the run as the badly injured Aegon's older half-sister Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) claims the crown and vows to execute him when she finds him.
"Aegon is at a point in his life where everything that he had and had been accustomed to has crumbled away. He's starting again, almost, with a new physicality and a new way of approaching life," Glynn-Carney said.
"That is obviously anxiety-inducing and I don't think anyone deals very well with that and he lashes out and is just a ball of untamable energy, really, with a lot of rage, like Matt said. They're working out how to navigate each other and essentially get the thing that we both want, which we have common ground on, at least."
The actors compared their characters' dynamic to Sam and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings, that is, if the lovable hobbits and travel companions were "amoral psychopaths."
"It's a sort of very twisted road trip with these very dysfunctional people, who can only actually learn to function with each other," Needham said.
"It's so desperate. They are all that they have and I think there's an antagonism to that at the beginning, but, hopefully, it becomes something later on. It sort of mellows into something different."