Warning: This article contains spoilers fromHouse of the Dragonseason 1.
Not well, says actorSteve Toussaint.
Toussaint sat down with EW atthe official Game of Thrones Convention, which was put on by Warner Bros. “I think he’d be devastated,” Toussaint tells EW.
Steve Toussaint’s Lord Corlys Velaryon commands the room at Dragonstone in ‘House of the Dragon.'.Ollie Upton / HBO
“I think it would unleash a certain rage in him.
And he says, I don’t want it because if I do it then someone’s dead.
And that, I think, will resonate with Corlys when he thinks about that boy being dead.”
Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and her son Lucerys Velaryon (Elliot Grihault) in ‘House of the Dragon.'.Ollie Upton / HBO
What follows is a chase that plays out on dragonback in the rain-soaked skies above the castle.
Are we right to go into war?
Am I on the right side?
There is a way we do things and it has been transgressed by the Greens.
He’s forthright in his belief.
So it’s about that, about being comfortable in your certainty.
Once he sets his mind to something, he doesn’t really suffer from doubt.
It’s black or it’s white.
It’s right or it’s wrong.
I think that’s who he is."
Toussaint points to a moment between Corlys and Daemon as being influential for his own character work.
“He says something along the lines of, ‘I built mine.
You and I, we’re second sons.
We’ve gotta prove,'” the actor says.
As a self-made man, Corlys built the wealth of House Velaryon from his storied travels across the ocean.
What was most helpful for Toussaint, though, was understanding Corlys to be a family man.
“It’s not about personal wealth ‘cause he’s rich,” he says.
“But it’s about legacy.
We’re not gonna be forgotten.”
