“I think he’d be devastated,” Toussaint says.

“I think it would unleash a certain rage in him.

And he says, I don’t want it because if I do it then someone’s dead.

Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) at the council table in House of the Dragon

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And that, I think, will resonate with Corlys when he thinks about that boy being dead.”

He’s forthright in his belief.

So it’s about that, about being comfortable in your certainty.

Steve Toussaint as Lord Corlys and Eve Best as Princess Rhaenys in House of the Dragon Season 1

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Once he sets his mind to something, he doesn’t really suffer from doubt.

It’s black or it’s white.

It’s right or it’s wrong.

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I think that’s who he is," he says.

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