‘Home of the Dragon’ Casts One other Key Member of Staff Black

The battle for the Iron Throne will proceed in season three of House of the Dragon—simply don’t ask George R.R. Martin for his thoughts about it—and the HBO sequence is including one other key solid member to replicate that. Thus far we’ve realized about new knights becoming a member of varied sides of the battle, together with fan-favorite Northman “Roddy the Ruin.” And now we’ve received a brand new girl getting into the male-dominated fray to throw her help behind Rhaenyra Targaryen: Alysanne Blackwood, to be performed by Annie Shapero.

A Music of Ice and Fireplace followers will acknowledge that final identify as one of many key homes within the Riverlands. We met Ser Willem Blackwood in season two of Home of the Dragon—Daemon Targaryen encourages his terror offensive in opposition to the Blackwood’s longstanding regional allies, the Brackens—however Alysanne has but to affix the story. In Martin’s source-material guide Fireplace & Blood, she’s a fierce, tough-talking grasp archer who turns into a significant participant in some key battles in the course of the Dance of Dragons. Her nickname is “Black Aly,” which speaks to her ruthlessness in addition to her loyalty to Staff Black.

Later within the story, she allies with Lord Cregan Stark—who popped up firstly of Home of the Dragon season two to satisfy Rhaenyra’s son Jacaerys on the Wall—and steers him towards some necessary ethical decisions (no spoilers, but it surely includes a few of Rhaenyra’s youthful sons and the place they find yourself in all this) in the course of the occasion generally known as the “Hour of the Wolf.”

As Deadline places it, she’s “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 appears to be like more likely to be instructed in Home of the Dragon season three.”

The commerce additional notes that Shapero, whose credit embrace Prime Video’s Jacob Elordi-starring World Battle II miniseries The Slender Highway to the Deep North, will seem in 5 of Home of the Dragon season three’s eight episodes, so Black Aly is clearly going to be taking part in a significant half in what’s subsequent. The following installment ought to hit HBO subsequent 12 months.

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