Season 2 is already underway
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms* season 2 is currently filming, and Peter Claffey says the series is not losing any of the polish that helped set expectations so high in the first place. Claffey, who plays Ser Dunk, said he did not think the show could “ever hit the level of quality of season 1,” but now describes the new season as “incredible.”
The upcoming season adapts The Sworn Sword, and Claffey says that story gives Dunk a very different kind of challenge to deal with. Speaking to The Playlist, he said the season is “totally different,” but still squarely in line with what viewers have come to expect from the series.
A different story, and a less graceful Dunk
“It’s totally different. The Sworn Sword is my favorite novella of the three in the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms book. It’s a tragic love story. It’s a completely different job for Dunk to navigate,” Claffey said.
He added that the new season will put Dunk in awkward territory that, frankly, does not sound like his strongest skill set.
“And I suppose he has his first kind of experience with… his first kind of experience with kind of trying to navigate talking and chatting to women, which he’s terrible at, and trying to establish a work relationship with a woman, which he’s absolutely awful at,” Claffey said.
So while season 2 may be shifting tone and story, Claffey is making it clear the production has not taken a step down. If anything, it sounds like the series is trying to keep its reputation intact while forcing Dunk into emotional situations he is comically underqualified to handle. A bold choice, but television does love a man who cannot speak to women.
