Steve Toussaint tells THR why everyone should be team black over team green at the 'House of the Dragon' season 2 premiere. Plus, he shares what he's most excited to explore with his character Corlys this season.
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00:00 Congratulations on season two. Give us your best pitch. Why should everyone be team black over team green?
00:06 well
00:07 The basic answer is team black is right because the king named the Queen Rhaenyra
00:14 Isaiah that is the way things work if you're right you're right and if you're wrong you're green and also we just look good in
00:19 Black and we're sexy. I
00:21 Love that enough said y'all are sexy. Do you feel like that sort of rivalry translated off-screen?
00:27 Was there any friendly competition between the team? No, you see the reason not for me because one of the differences in this
00:33 this season as opposed to last in
00:35 Season one there were about five or six episodes where we were all together
00:40 So I'd see them all every time we shot this time because we're all scattered and we're all people have started taking taking sides
00:47 I didn't see them. So
00:49 Like today's the first time I've seen him since we rehearsed and also Matt Smith
00:54 Olivia I think I bumped into once
00:56 Fabian I didn't see much of you and I didn't see so so we couldn't really have that rivalry thing
01:02 So I feel like it'll have to start now today. Absolutely. Yes
01:05 I'm making sure that they don't get to drink that they don't get good seats. You know, it's starting now. Yeah, I love that
01:12 I also want to ask what were you most excited to explore with Corliss as as that character this season?
01:18 Well, I think because this season you see another side to call this you see
01:21 In season one, he's very much on the front foot
01:24 He's very much this is what we're gonna do and we're gonna do this and you're gonna do that and he was very much
01:28 Leading and then at the end of season one, he's like, okay
01:32 It was my ambition that has caused me to lose all of these people
01:35 So now I don't want to be any part of this. It's his wife who says no we've got to support Rineira this season
01:40 I think he is still suffering from grief. There's only been a few days since the end of season one
01:46 He is having to deal with his past misdemeanors coming back to haunt him
01:51 I can't say any more than that, but you'll see the show and you know what I mean
01:53 and trying to hold on to that which is most sacred to him, which is his wife and the fact that normally when he
02:00 Comes across an emotional issue that he can't deal with he goes to see
02:04 Season one he went to see for six years, but now his ship is in repair
02:08 He himself is still recovering so he can't go anywhere. He now has to stop and face his
02:14 Faces demons. Okay, so a lot to explore this season
02:18 I also want to ask I know the language of this universe can be tough to master at times
02:23 Do you have any tricks to how to master high Valyria?
02:26 Well, I'm lucky. I don't have to say any I just have to for me the character just he understands it and can speak it
02:33 But when we're doing the scenes, I just pretend like I understand it. It's much like that
02:37 Yeah, but I but also the language is
02:41 Kind of old and Shakespearean and I've done my fair pair bit of Shakespeare. So it helps
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