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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Annabel Nugent

House of the Dragon’s Tom Glynn-Carney: ‘Game of Thrones was too close to oversexualising women’

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Aegon II Targaryen is not a villain, or so says the man who plays him on House of the Dragon. For all his scheming and bludgeoning, the newly anointed Lord of the Seven Kingdoms isn’t evil. “I don’t think he is,” insists Tom Glynn-Carney. “He’s a product of his history. He’s complex and multidimensional and riddled with insecurity. He’s an empath!”

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