If you’ve been watching House of the Dragon Season 3, now airing on the 2026 TV schedule, you know Aegon Targaryen has never had an easy ride in the prestige streaming series. But this season has put him through a very different kind of misery. After how Season 2 ended and everything that happened to him, the king is not only emotionally wrecked. He is permanently scarred by dragon fire, and his body is broken. That created a very specific acting problem for Tom Glynn-Carney, the actor behind the fallen monarch. He had to remember that Aegon now lives with a limp and, apparently, that was easier said than done.
Glynn-Carney talked about playing Aegon after the character was left permanently injured and disfigured. The actor explained to People that Season 3 required a major physical transformation every morning, but that aforementioned part of Aegon’s condition kept slipping his mind once he was actually performing:
