Peter Claffey is unmistakable, as soon as he showed up in the roundtable room of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms it was immediately clear to all that we had ahead Ser Duncan the Tall the protagonist of the prequel TV series of Game of Thrones from today 19 January 2026 on HBO Max. Typically Irish smooth red hair, clear eyes penetrated and a natural desire to have fun and to put everyone at ease, Claffey let himself go by telling the anxiety of the auditions, the encounter with Dexter (Egg) and especially the positive fear for what will come next.
Peter Claffey e il successo
“If this is to become huge and people start looking at you, I just want to maintain a humble attitude. I’d like to make my grandfather proud, my parents, my family. Keep being the same person. Never take me too seriously” was his words, a humble boy also on the set where he almost didn’t realize he could have claims since he was the protagonist. “Everything was equally important, even those who worked behind the camera. Nothing happens without the work of all others“. On the one hand he is afraid of what will happen after the release of the series and also for that he is pleased with the immediate departure of season 2.
Il rapporto con Dexter
Peter Claffey recalled the initial anxiety, just knew he was taken. “To enter the world of Game of thrones (of which he has always been a fan, ed.) is a huge honor and I am deeply grateful, but he is a double-cut sword. He is afraid, no doubt.” For the success of the TV series, Duncan and Egg were fundamental, played by the young man (Dexter Sol Ansell): “When you enter a room with a child, a child actor, you immediately think you have to be a guide, an almost fraternal figure. But with Dexter, the illusion of the nine-year-old child fades immediately. He looks like a 50-year-old theater actor, with an incredible maturity. It has an impressive wisdom for its age.” But the fatherly or brotherly figure takes over thinking of the boy: “I just want to make sure it is protected and safe, because we know what happened to so many children actors over the years. I had a completely different childhood from his. I want you to stay on the ground, humble, aware of what you have. It has a fantastic family and a group of adorable people around him“. Before Dexter had met only another child who was not chosen because he did not agree to shave his head.
Comicità e preparazione fisica
Claffey told how after finishing the rugbyist life he immediately started writing comic sketches “I always loved to perform and deeply love the comedy. American comedy, Irish comedy: laugh loud. Before entering the acting school I spent a year creating sketches, also building a small follow-up on social“. That is why when he realized that in the series the comic part would have had a big importance he was even more convinced that he could do it.
Despite the imposing physicist he had to prepare for work in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, especially in Belfast they worked to ride on horseback: “a lot of training in combat: swords, shields, angles, technique. It was incredible. And then increase muscle mass.”.
Bertie Carvel e il personaggio di Baelor
“Interprete Baelor Targaryen, who is the Crown Prince of the Kingdom and is also the First Knight of the King” Bertie Carvel told. “We are at a time when the Targaryen dynasty is, let’s say, in its late phase: they lost their nuclear weapon, dragons. They no longer have that overwhelming force with which they conquered the kingdom, so I would say that they are politically unstable. My brother and I are making a kind of journey through the kingdom to ensure that the support of the barons remains firm, and we arrive at this small tournament, in a sort of lost place in the Reach. And that is where our story is intertwined with that of the hero of the story, Ser Duncan, who as you know is a hedge knight: he is not a great knight at the service of an important house”.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms also speaks of the present: “I find it touching that in this series there is a resonance with the present. It is a story for our time because it speaks of heroism and moral courage. Despite fantasy elements it is a world where things go wrong, and that makes it credible. There is a very strong pragmatism.
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