EXCLUSIVE: Web hypothesis has been rife in current weeks over who will star as considered one of George R.R. Martin’s most fierce feminine fighters within the upcoming Home of the Dragon Season 3.
We will reveal that Australian-British actor Annie Shapero is enjoying Alysanne Blackwood within the subsequent season, which began capturing a number of weeks again within the UK.
Often called Black Aly, Blackwood performs a key function in Martin’s Fireplace and Blood novel. The fearless warrior is Lord Benjicot Blackwood’s aunt and fights for Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) within the Dance of the Dragons earlier than marrying Lord Cregan Stark, who’s performed by Tom Taylor. She turns into a legendary determine in Home Stark lore and her storyline seems more likely to be instructed in Home of the Dragon Season 3.
Blackwood just isn’t a sequence common however we’re instructed she is going to seem in 5 of the eight eps of Season 3, which comes out subsequent yr.
She joins an array of newcomers to HBO’s hit franchise together with James Norton, who performs Alicent (Olivia Cooke)’s cousin Ormund Hightower, Tommy Flanagan as Lord Roderick Dustin and Dan Fogler as Ser Torrhen Manderly.
Shapero performed American journalist Jenny in Pink Skies, the Collection Mania Award-winning Israeli TV present concerning the Second Intifada co-created by Euphoria’s Ron Leshem. She has additionally been in FX pilot The Border, Jacob Elordi-starrer The Slender Street to the Deep North and has been forged in upcoming Australian horror pic Saccharine reverse Midori Francis.
Home of the Dragon has been an enormous hit for HBO. Starring Matt Smith, D’Arcy and Cooke, the third season will decide up with a serious escalation within the Dance of the Dragons, the conflict that rips the highly effective Targaryen dynasty aside.
HBO declined touch upon Shapero’s casting.
