‘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'”

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They didn’t bring trailers or plot hints for season three, but House of the Dragon actors Matt Smith, Tom Glynn-Carney and Fabian Frankel dished a little on their co-stars from HBO‘s prequel to Game of Thrones during a panel on Sunday at New York Comic Con, and Glynn-Carney made a confession that drew gasps and laughter from a hall filled with a few thousand fantasy movie and television fans: “I haven’t seen Lord of the Rings.” Glynn-Carney’s big reveal doubled as a bailout for Smith, who moments earlier disclosed that he’s never watched one of the foundational Star Wars trilogy movies, Return of the Jedi. “Don’t hate me,” Smith jokingly pleaded.

On Comic Con’s last day, the actors playing HOTD‘s Daemon Targaryen (Smith), Aegon II Targaryen (Glynn-Carney) and Criston Cole (Frankel) sat with panel moderator and Happy Sad Confused podcaster Josh Horowitz for a behind-the-scenes look back on Season 2 of the show adapted from author George R.R.

Martin’s Fire & Blood, which finished airing in August. 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. “He looked so miserable,” Frankel recalled.