House of the Dragon is still smoldering from Season 2’s chaos, but thanks to Tom Glynn-Carney, we’ve already got a tease of what’s cooking in HOTD’s upcoming Season 3. Between Alicent and Criston Cole’s sudden shift, Daemon brooding on an island and in Harrenhal, and Aegon II getting literally roasted, Season 2 was a lot. But if you’ve been waiting for Aegon to evolve beyond a scorched “royal mess,” your patience might finally pay off.
Tom Glynn-Carney peeled back the armor a bit to discuss Aegon’s next chapter during an interview with Awards Buzz. The English actor offers insight into the embattled king’s shifting mindset, and it sounds like Season 3 won’t be business as usual for the bottle-swigging, chaos-courting monarch. The actor shared:
This quest for an understanding of who he is, and why he is the way he is, and answering a lot of questions for himself that later might lend themselves to him kinda leveling up as a human being and taking responsibility and casting light on those areas that were otherwise very shadowed and hidden in dusty corners within himself.
Aegon’s the most compelling character in the prestige fantasy series—I’m one of them. So yeah, this tease from the man under the white Targaryen wig is exciting. It’s a long way from the guy we met in Season 1, who was naked, drunk, and hiding from his own coronation.
best characters of Game of Thrones, he should be flawed, he can be cold and calculating—but maybe, just maybe, a little self-aware.
We’ll have to wait and see what happens when Aegon, power in hand, finally asks himself why he wanted it. Season 3 is expected in 2026, though no date has been set. In the meantime, you can stream every shocking Game of Thrones moment and House of the Dragon episode with an HBO Max subscription.