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‘House of the Dragon’ Stars Take Season 2 Victory Lap At NYCC & Stay Mum On Season 3 — But Admit One Of Them Has “Never Seen ‘Lord of the Rings'”


The 'House of the Dragon' cast conversation at New York Comic Con also included mention of fan tattoos and R-rated elements of the show.

Smith — the blonde-locked Targaryen fighter on screen — showed up in the braided mohawk he’s sporting as an old-school punk rocker in Darren Aronofsky’s ’90s-set thriller Caught Stealing, which is filming in New York City’s East Village. That was the only period hairstyle seen on stage during a casual one-hour chat about the GOT spin-off that covered suffocating wigs and armor, stagehands wielding leaf-blowers to simulate airflow while riding a dragon, the challenges of speaking High Valyrian, and just how furious co-star Rhys Ifans was about his too-tiny battle helmet during one shoot. Season 2 of House of the Dragon ended this summer with more clamor offscreen than on, as HBO found itself responding to blogged — and later deleted — criticisms from Martin, whose novel Fire & Blood provides the source material.

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