‘House of the Dragon’ star Tom Glynn-Carney says King Aegon isn’t a villain: He’s ‘quite funny’

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Spoilers below for the second episode of “House of the Dragon” Season 2. Tom Glynn-Carney stars in the hit “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” as King Aegon, a young monarch who is almost comically unsuited for the role. “It’s not really a conscious decision, to be honest,” Glynn-Carney, 29, told The Post about finding the humor. “He’s very loose and very free.

I want to lean into that. That [comedy] happens just organically, I think. The way he’s written and the way he’s perceived by other people, I do find him quite funny.

My focus is just to bring some authenticity to what could otherwise be quite a distant world that’s hard to access. I work off impulse a lot, and instinct, rather than planning things meticulously.” The show follows a civil war around 200 years before the events of “GoT.” Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) is the heir to the Iron Throne, but her half-brother, Aegon, and his supporters have usurped her.Season 2 kicked off with Rhaenyra’s husband Daemon (Matt Smith) sending assassins to kill Aegon’s vicious brother, Aemond (Ewan Mitchell), but they botched the attempt and instead, they ended up murdering Aegon’s son.

Reeling from that tragedy, in the second episode, Aegon beheads one of the culprits, Blood (Sam C. Wilson). “That was quite intense,” Glynn-Carney said, adding that he and Wilson didn’t speak to each other on the day of filming. “He was very much in the zone; I was in the zone.