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Interview: House of the Dragon’s Steve Toussaint · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: A small show, the smallsy show. We are live in London,
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  Speaker 1: so it would only be appropriate that we get a
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  Speaker 1: lord on the show. The new season of House of
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  Speaker 1: the Dragon premiere today on HBO Max. Let's take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to it and then get star Steve Tusson, Lord
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  Speaker 1: Valarian right here on the show.
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  Speaker 2: These are turbulent times.
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  Speaker 1: Have you not betrayed your queen? Bring egg on the
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  Speaker 1: u zuppa to.
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  Speaker 2: Me your father's realm, that's one of justice. Please welcome
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  Speaker 2: House of the Dragon star Steve Tucson.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, so Steve Tucson from House of the Dragon, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: or should I say, Lord Valarian, how would you like
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  Speaker 1: to be to you? Tell me? Hey, congratulations on already
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent on rotten tomatoes. So I've been told
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  Speaker 1: that's amazing. They're the hardest to impress hard tomatoes. Someone
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  Speaker 1: told me it's been certified fresh, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that. I don't know what that means,
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  Speaker 1: but if it's good, it sounds like put it on
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  Speaker 1: a poster. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly, So we'll do that now. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, the shows out, can you do a
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  Speaker 1: quick refresher where we find the end of it because
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to the spoilers, but I
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  Speaker 1: also want to give people up to speed so they
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  Speaker 1: know what they're in for.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow. Generally, where we are is that we are,
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  Speaker 2: and season two ended was with the realm on the
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  Speaker 2: verge of warfare. Basically it's going to happen for Carlis himself.
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  Speaker 2: Here is the situation where he's lost his wife and
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  Speaker 2: his kids and he's now with his estrange son, his
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  Speaker 2: illegitimate son who hates him, and they're going to both
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  Speaker 2: go to war together. And it's like, how do I
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  Speaker 2: deal with my grief and how do I forge a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with this guy and at the same time try
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  Speaker 2: and stay alive.
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  Speaker 1: Your character, their wife's death was epic. Yes, have you
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  Speaker 1: thought about how you would like, well, if it wants
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I have to choose my words
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  Speaker 1: care if your character has had to die? Yes, have
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  Speaker 1: you thought about a way you'd like to go out?
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  Speaker 2: Not specifically, okay, but I've said that if he has to,
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  Speaker 2: because it.
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  Speaker 1: WI always was your eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just like just glorious, glorious, like yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because one of the things that they do, it's weird
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  Speaker 2: is they sort of say to the people, who are
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  Speaker 2: you going to die there? That was going to be great,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be fantastic. I'm going to be out
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  Speaker 2: of a jaw. Yeah, but yeah, so but if you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna go, then go in a blaze of glory.
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  Speaker 1: Totally. And also too, I think it's like a rite
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  Speaker 1: of passage. Particularly if you take on a character that
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  Speaker 1: does have a death, you want it. You want to
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  Speaker 1: know how it goes out, because there's some epic ones
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  Speaker 1: absolutely the series.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they just they constantly trying to find
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  Speaker 2: inventive ways to.
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  Speaker 1: To ask you, your character doesn't have a dragon, sadly,
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  Speaker 1: do you have dragon phomo?
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  Speaker 2: I used to yeah, okay, I did. I used to
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  Speaker 2: where it's all through season two and most of the season.
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  Speaker 1: And then he got in real life and then I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, this is the cat's fine, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And then but then those guys told me what they
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  Speaker 2: had to go through to actually shoot those scenes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: didn't sound like much fun.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's like a tennis ball, right, yeah, really, like
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  Speaker 1: it's on.
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  Speaker 2: A green screen or a blue screen and they're on
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  Speaker 2: like this buck where there's a lot of crew just
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  Speaker 2: sort of swinging them around, and they're throwing water and
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  Speaker 2: blowing wind in their faces and yeah, just shouting at them.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, give me the ship. The ship's cooled.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you must be able to get away with living
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  Speaker 1: a pretty much normal life considering the dreads that your
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  Speaker 1: character does. I was hoping to see them in real life.
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  Speaker 2: We are no, absolutely true. One of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I never forget. When we were just about to launch
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  Speaker 2: season one, I went for a walk with one of
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  Speaker 2: the showrunners and he said to me, he told me
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  Speaker 2: about finding people looking through his bins. Yeah, we'd heard
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  Speaker 2: about the media. Clark saying, well, I don't go out
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  Speaker 2: as much as I normally do. I normally wouldn't so
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  Speaker 2: far geah that And he said, but you you the
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  Speaker 2: beard and the wig will save you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And have you noticed it does? Like if you,
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  Speaker 1: let's say, you're image at a rat party or just
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  Speaker 1: crew drinks or something like that, everyone else is like
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  Speaker 1: getting spied across the room and it takes them a
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  Speaker 1: little bit longer to clock.
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  Speaker 2: Ye. Yes, even I mean even some of my own cast,
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  Speaker 2: like when we remember there was a point are you
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  Speaker 2: saying there some of your cast who don't know.
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  Speaker 1: What you look now.
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  Speaker 2: But there was a point, yeah, when we had finished
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  Speaker 2: it against season one, I was out of function and
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  Speaker 2: Emily Carey was that Emily played Allison's yeah yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: I sort of went high and she looked at.
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  Speaker 1: Me like, yeah, oh my god. Yeah that's great. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's fun, that's great. The show has such a huge
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  Speaker 1: fan base, a passionate fan base. I would imagine being
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  Speaker 1: part of it. You would have to be on the interm.
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  Speaker 1: Did you go through like a like a mind map
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  Speaker 1: of the families, like the territories? Did you have to
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  Speaker 1: be inducted into No?
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  Speaker 2: No, okay, next question, Yeah, no, I mean I do
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  Speaker 2: recall a conversation where we were all of those of
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  Speaker 2: us who were in season one. We were all sitting
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  Speaker 2: around and I do remember Ryan trying to explain to
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  Speaker 2: hers how you could make a dragon.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, and it was he was so very serious about it.
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  Speaker 2: Ye, carmination of like biology and alchemy, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: look just like, well, it's fine, right, yes, give us
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  Speaker 2: the script absolutely, But no, the most idea I was
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  Speaker 2: given I was letting the box set up Game of Thrones. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so I watched all of those, Yeah, but in terms
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  Speaker 2: of us. Somebody asked me about the day, you know
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  Speaker 2: what Dragon does? Soun so right, and I'm like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, I'm sorr yeah, wow, okay, I know what
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  Speaker 2: Dragon Rainy is Just to ride.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, pretty much. That's about as far as it goes.
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  Speaker 1: And then you just you slink away and I hope
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  Speaker 1: that now I'll put that up on social media.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I love about the show is obviously
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  Speaker 1: the inter personal family dynamics, right, Not that people's real
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  Speaker 1: life family dynamics ever manifest in the way it does
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  Speaker 1: in the show, thank goodness, right, but it does. You
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  Speaker 1: do find yourself going, my uncle really isn't as annoying
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  Speaker 1: as I realized thought he was when you watch a
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  Speaker 1: show like this, absolutely, yeah, thank thankful for small mercies,
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  Speaker 1: but totally you know, is there anything you've learned about
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  Speaker 1: family dynamics while making this show, Like, you know, be
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  Speaker 1: more forgiving, you know, they're not as bad as they
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  Speaker 1: could be.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, all those things, and just having a bit more patience.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, what it is, that's just take.
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  Speaker 2: It easy because these people are killing each other if
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  Speaker 2: they're not sleeping with each other, Yes, take a moment
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  Speaker 2: it's really not that big a deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like your brother or your sister. They're not
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  Speaker 1: trying to be annoying. It's just who they are. Yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: come on. Yeah. My last question is show related, and
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  Speaker 1: it was one word you'd use to describe the season
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  Speaker 1: three finale. Oh, okay, one word.
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  Speaker 2: Betrayal.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, without getting too much away, Yeah, well, no spoilers here,
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  Speaker 1: but betrayal is the worst word. Yeah, okay. Yeah, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: pleasure to meet you, You too, you say, don't miss
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