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Spoilers forHouse of the Dragonseason two, episode seven:The Red Sowing.
Introducing a new character to theGame of ThronesandHouse of the Dragonuniverse is never a simple task.
There are alreadytoo many charactersin these shows, and now theres someonenewyou want us to keep track of?
Hes a bit of world-building from the perspective of a Flea Bottom resident.
But this scene, Bennett says, offered a bit of a challenge for his first day on set.
Everyones name is the same.
The pronunciation differences are so tiny infinitesimally small, he laments.
Im like, Oh my god, lets do it again then.
Yet heres Ulf getting goaded on by his drinking buddies to give dragon-taming a go.
Everyones having a good time at the bar putting Ulf up to dragonrider tryouts.
Are Ulf and Hugh meant to be two different sides of the Targaryen-bastard coin?Were both lower-born.
Were both from Flea Bottom.
We both come from nothing and dont have much.
I love getting to do scenes with Kieran.
I love getting to have fun in a way that other actors onHouse of the Dragondont.Oh, you bastard.
Why are you allowed to do that and Im not?Well, Im Ulf, and youre not.
But he seems like a slightly more hapless, lovable sort of a fellow on the show thus far.
It isnt a traditional fictional book.
Its a retelling of a fictional history with anecdotes, and nobody quite knows the full truth.
Ulf isnt fleshed out in the book.
He doesnt come across well in the books.
Hes a drunk who does things we may find out about, which I cant say.
A bit of a prick, but a lovable prick.
I do lovable prick very well.
Speaking of being chosen, why did Silverwing accept Ulf as a rider?
We dont know, and George R.R.
Martins been quite loose about how dragons choose riders.
Certainly, riders dont choose dragons.
We thought about lots of reasons it could be.
If nothing else, it concretes the fact that part of my story is true.
It helps that shes known to be one of the kinder, gentler dragons.
That plays to my favor, that shes not Vermithor.
Vermithor wanted me dead.
Vermithor wanted everyone dead.
Theres a lot of luck involved in what Ulf does.
Does Ulf feel like he always was destined and deserving of something like this?
Ulf looks out for himself.
We will see what that power does to him.
You know, power corrupts completely, and I think power will corrupt Ulf.
What is Ulf doing at the end of the episode?
I presume Rhaenyra sent him to Kings Landing to do a flyby.
You see people do Blue Steel, sexy dragon-riding acting, and I cant do that.
If Ryan and Sara asked me to do that, wed all be fucked.
But Ulf is this instinctive being who now has a Ferrari and is taking it for a joyride.
Hes hot-wired this thing, hes a live-for-now creature, and hes sitting on unlimited power.
Hes going to see what it does.
Theres a degree of bravado.
Rhaenyra knows what shes doing.
Maybe she spotted me and said, Yeah, hes the right one.
Send him to do the drive-by.
Then I got back to Dragonstone and was like, Did you know theyve got great big fucking crossbows?
Because they were shooting at me!
And then Hugh goes, Oh yeah, I built those.
Well, you should have mentioned that then, shouldnt you, you prick?!
None of that happens in the show.
Im making all of that up.
