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Why Paddy Considine Still Left ‘House of the Dragon’ on a High Despite Not Surviving Season One · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood, with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Getting cast on the first season of a show like
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  Speaker 2: House of the Dragon is an actor's dream, partly because
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  Speaker 2: with the successive predecessor, Game of Thrones, the show was
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  Speaker 2: almost guaranteed to be a hit and secure multiple seasons
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  Speaker 2: of work. But Patty Considine, who played King Visaras, didn't
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  Speaker 2: survive season one, which Patty knew from the very beginning,
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  Speaker 2: and while he does in some ways wish he could
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  Speaker 2: have stayed on, he left the show on a high
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  Speaker 2: because of what the man behind it all, author George R. R.
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  Speaker 2: Martin told him. Patty tells Deadline. His words to me were,
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  Speaker 2: you played Visaras better than I ever imagined. Your Visaras
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  Speaker 2: is better than my Visaras. To get a nod from
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  Speaker 2: a creator like that, for him to say that he
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  Speaker 2: wants to go back and rewrite Visaras's history because of
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  Speaker 2: my performance, that's really flattering. There was a bit of
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  Speaker 2: jealousy when season two started filming and I wasn't part
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  Speaker 2: of it anymore, but at least I made an impact.
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  Speaker 2: House of the Dragon is expected to return to Max
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  Speaker 2: next summer.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.