Everybody Wants a Dragon on House of the Dragon—Except This Character

As House of the Dragon has been showing us in caller episodes, dragonriding is not, successful fact, a pursuit that lone highborn Targaryens tin prosecute in. Dragons volition really play bully with smallfolk if they person the close operation of humor and mojo.

But not each who suffice are speedy to leap astatine the chance. Alyn of Hull, played by Abubaker Salim, is taken aback erstwhile helium learns his younger brother, Addam, has go a dragonrider—something that’s decidedly not capable inducement for Alyn himself to springiness it a try.

As we’ve gotten to cognize Alyn successful play two, we’ve learned he’s focused connected 1 thing: his job, looking aft the ships successful the Sea Snake’s fleet. That the Sea Snake, Lord Corlys Velaryon, is really Alyn and Addam’s begetter is an unfastened secret—and it’s thing the long-estranged household members person yet to discuss. The closest they’ve travel is successful the astir caller episode, “The Red Sowing,” erstwhile Corlys approaches Alyn astatine the docks, tells him the bombshell quality astir Addam, and powerfully hints that possibly Alyn mightiness besides beryllium susceptible of saddling up a dragon.

Addam rapidly tells his Corlys he’d overmuch alternatively instrumentality to the sea, and it’s a rebuff with layers that spell deeper than conscionable the information that he’d alternatively not effort to alert a fire-breathing beast. In a caller interrogation with the Hollywood Reporter, Salim—a George R.R. Martin instrumentality who says he’s thrilled to beryllium portion of House of the Dragon—elaborated connected his character’s motivations successful that moment.

“I deliberation determination are truthful galore similarities betwixt Corlys and Alyn,” Salim explained. “I deliberation they’re some precise alert of it, too. And I deliberation Alyn hates it. He tin spot it, helium tin consciousness it, helium knows what Corlys knows, and that’s wherefore their narration is precise hard and strained. Addam inactive has this mentality of hope, though, and is inactive successful that phase. The older you get, the much you go a realist. There’s a consciousness of existent information to the thought that, adjacent if Corlys named Alyn arsenic 1 of his sons oregon Addam arsenic 1 of his sons, we’ll ne'er really be 1 of his sons … truthful Alyn, I don’t deliberation helium could judge Corlys arsenic his father.”

Salim besides revealed that since being formed connected House of the Dragon, the number-one question he’s been asked is whether oregon not he’ll get to thrust a dragon. “And past I person to beryllium like, ‘Look, it’s complicated.’ At the aforesaid time, there’s a portion of maine that would person loved to thrust a dragon, but I’ve got my ship, man.”

House of the Dragon‘s play 2 finale arrives Sunday, August 4 connected HBO and Max.

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