Filming the sophomore season Dragon house It started, but new cast members are still being announced. Four additional actors have just come on board the hugely popular series game of thrones prequel, and none of them will have to wear platinum blonde wigs.
You may not know these actors very well – although many of them have a solid theatrical background – but we do know who they play. Simon Russell Bell Follow Favorite He will play Sir Simon Strong, Castellan of Harrenhal and great-uncle L Foot fetish plotter Larry Strong (Matthew Needham). Freddie Fox (slow horses) He will play Sir Gwen Hightower, son of King Otto’s hand (Rhys Ifans), brother to Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke), and uncle to King Aegon, Queen Helena, and Prince Aymund.
Gayle Rankin (Perry Mason, Glow) She will play Alice Rivers, the “healer and resident of Harrenhal” whose father is possibly Sir Lionel Strong, making her Larry’s half-sister. And Abu Bakr Salim (raised by wolves) He’ll play Allen of Hull, a sailor in Villarion’s fleet, who in the books is believed to be the illegitimate son of Corleys “Sea Snake” Villarion (Steve Toussaint).
Now, the question is, how many of these characters will make it out of Season 2 alive?
(via EW)
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