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HBO and showrunner Ryan Condal ’s House of the Dragon has reportedly pink James Norton ( The Nevers ) for the persona of Ormund Hightower .
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As fans eagerly await what the third season of HBO and showrunnerRyan Condal’sHouse of the Dragonhas to offer ( with the serial publication rig to wind up its run with the 4th season),Varietyis sharing some major molding tidings . Though mentioned , the character of Ormund Hightower has n’t been see – but that ’s about to vary , withJames Norton(HBO’sThe Nevers ) joining the cast . Based on the description released , Norton ’s Ormund is " Otto ’s ( Rhys Ifans ) nephew , Alicent ( Olivia Cooke ) and Gwayne ’s ( Freddie Fox ) full cousin , and the Lord of Oldtown " who is " leading the Hightower host in a march on King ’s Landing to support his theater against Rhaenyra ( Emma D’Arcy ) . "
House of the Dragon: Condal Defends “Blood & Cheese,” Maelor Changes
Conveniently enough , a bonus installment of the show ’s official podcast dropped in the thick of all of the finger - pointing and C. W. Post disappearing from back in September between the showrunner andGeorge RR Martin , one that assure Condal speak a number of questions regarding bringing " Fire & Blood " to populate - action life . Here ’s what Condal had to say in defense of the decisions made regarding " lineage & Cheese " and Maelor :
" Blood & Cheese " : " I abide behind the version of how the secret plan unfolded . I have talked about this quite a bit , but I will just say it in unvarnished textual matter : the children that we had in the account were simply too new to be able-bodied to construct that narrative precisely as laid out in the book . Period . I have luck of experience working with very immature performer . To take two four - year - olds to meet through that stage of drama ; it ’s just not a naturalistic expectation .
There ’s also a virtual element around the things that you’re able to let out young children to on a film set . Yes , you’re able to do clever cutaways , and dummy , and all those things . We want this to be a very nonrational , immanent experience , not something that was very ' cut - yttrium ' and with closeup . And when you get going actually breaking asunder what take place in that room , and the thing that are say , and the things that are done , it became such a challenge to call up about and mount that we part looking for — what are the baseborn elements of this story , that Daemon and Rhaenyra send bravo into the Red Keep , and as a outcome the big businessman ’s child and heir [ is ] mangle — and how do we adopt that in a way that ’s exciting , and visceral , and atrocious , and do it in the good path potential ? "
lose Maelor : " And Maelor , if he were comport yet in this version of the the television timeline , would have been an babe because of the historic period of Jaehaerys and Jaehaera . honestly , this goes back to our first time of year and trying to adapt a write up that takes place over 20 years of history instead of a storey that takes place over 30 years of history . We had to make some compromise in rendering that story so that we did n’t have to recast the whole cast multiple times and really lose people . It was a choice made . It did have a ripple effect , and we decided that we were buy the farm to lean into it and endeavor to make it a strength rather of playing it as aweakness . "
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