House of the Dragon stars tease choppy waters ahead for Corlys and Rhaenys

It takes a village to raise a child or to mount a fantasy drama about war and dragons. While characters like Rhaenyra and Daemon Targaryen often steal the spotlight on HBO's House of the Dragon, the show has a big cast of characters, including old marrieds Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) and Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint).

These two have one of the more solid relationships on the show, but it sounds like there could be choppy waters ahead. What I want to say to Rhaenys is show your vulnerability," Eve Best told CBR. "She's so indomitable and strong, and she's so good at keeping her cool that actually she never lets [Corlys] know to what extent she's hurting. Her heart is broken. I wanted to say to her, 'Let [Corlys] see how much pain you're in. You don't have to hold everything together. You don't have to do all the work. This is a two-way thing.' I would say communication is key and allowing yourself to be vulnerable. Those are my two pieces of advice."

"Talk to each other.Things come up in Season 2that aren't actually war-related, that severely test this bond. Rhaenys has been irritated with Corlys. [She is] somebody who wants to talk and deal with the elephant in the room, and [he is] somebody who doesn't want to talk and wants to just shove everything under the carpet. It's intensely annoying."

Whatever could be testing the bond between this long-married couple? For that, we'll need to get into some SPOILERS.

The second season of House of the Dragon will introduce us to a couple of new characters in the form of Alyn and Addam of Hull, brothers played by Abubakar Salim and Clinton Liberty respectively. Although we probably won't learn it right off the bat, both Alyn and Addam are products of an extramarital affair Corlys had with a woman named Marilda of Hull, or at least that's what we suspect based on George R.R. Martin's book Fire & Blood.

"I can tell you that Alyn is very much his own man," Toussaint said. "He's a self-man man. He doesn't need help from anybody. That's very much what Corlys was like when he was younger. [Corlys] recognizes that spirit in [Alyn]... so he admires that about [Alyn] and it'll play a role in their interactions."

"Corlys has less to do with Addam until much later in the season. Addam, very much like Clinton [Liberty] who plays him, is a very sweet and innocent soul. Those who come into contact with him can't help but be enamored of him. That is as much as I can tell you, I'm afraid."

Both Addam and Alyn will stick around the show for the long haul, so I look forward to meeting them when House of the Dragon season 2 premieres on HBO and Max this Sunday, June 16.

Steve Toussaint would "love" to be part of House of the Dragon spinoff The Sea Snake

Beyond House of the Dragon, there's been talk of a spinoff down the line that would follow Corlys Velaryon in his younger years, back when he was traveling the world and making himself the richest man in Westeros. "I would gladly do that," Toussaint said. "The last time I saw [ Game of Thrones ] creator George R. R. Martin was a couple of years ago, and he was the one that told me that they were now thinking about doing it as an animation. People had, prior to that, said to me, they're doing a series about [my] character. I would often say, 'I'd love to do that.' It'll be his younger days and I can no longer play a 21-year-old, not feasibly anyway. And then Martin said, 'No, it's animation.' But that's the last I've heard of it. It's above my pay grade whether it's being developed, or whether I'm even in the frame of it being developed."

Eve Best if Rhaenys would feature in the show. "Well, yeah," Toussaint answered. "Part of [the voyages] is about her, isn't it? I hope that she gets in somewhere. A lot of the time, men do these things for the chicks."

The show is codenamed The Sea Snake, one of Corlys' nicknames. It's one of a few Game of Thrones spinoffs HBO has knocking around in development. Whether it will ever see the light of day, we'll have to wait and see.

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