And the idea that TV star Matt Smith is too ugly for anything just shows how vicious people are willing to be when someone with less than impossibly perfect dimensions dares to show their face onscreen.) (Incidentally, Smith was also accused of being too ugly to play the Doctor back when when he joined Doctor Who, only for fans to come around once they realized that the performance was what mattered, not the look. Some have all but flat-out said that Matt Smith is too ugly to play the role of Daemon Targaryen, which is so gross and wide of the point I think we can safely dismiss it. It’s early yet, but the show has already weathered some fan blowback for the casting. I’m all for that it means we won’t be thinking about what other roles these actors played while watching them act out this drama. That’s normal for the series apart from Matt Smith and arguably Graham McTavish, we’re mostly looking at unknowns here. His ships and his wits will be vital to the way the Dance of the Dragons unfolds.Ĭorlys is played by British actor Steve Toussaint, who isn’t a household name but who has a pretty long list of screen credits. Their power lies at sea: Corlys is a great mariner and has amassed a huge navy by the time the war begins. He’s the head of a powerful family that hails from Valyria just as the Targayens do, although the Velaryons aren’t dragon-riders. One of the most important is Corlys Velaryon, known as the Sea Snake. ![]() The series is about a brutal Targaryen civil war that took place over 100 years before Jon and Daenerys and everyone else we know was born, and there are a lot of players. HBO is currently hard at work on House of the Dragon, its follow-up to Game of Thrones.
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