A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2 Casts Its Lady Rohanne, Ser Eustace and Ser Bennis

HBO has formed 3 starring roles for Season 2 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is present successful accumulation successful Belfast and Spain. Season 2 adapts “The Sworn Sword”, the 2nd novella successful George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg series.

Set a fewer years aft the events depicted successful Season 1, Season 2 brings successful a caller formed of characters for Dunk and Egg (Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell, respectively) to encounter, astir notably Lady Rohanne Webber, aka the Red Widow, and Ser Eustace Osgrey, 2 rivals locked successful a bitter onshore quality arsenic a drought devastates The Reach.

Variety reports that British histrion Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, The Pale Blue Eye, Murder connected the Orient Express) has been formed arsenic Lady Rohanne Webber. In “The Sword Sword”, Lady Rohanne is believed to beryllium an aged witch liable for the deaths of her 4 husbands, but she is, successful fact, an charismatic young pistillate with governmental savvy and ambiguous intentions.

L-R: Lucy Boynton, Peter Mullan, Babou Ceesay

Scottish actor-filmmaker Peter Mullan (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Outlander: Blood of My Blood) volition play Ser Eustace Osgrey, a arrogant aged knight and seasoned of the First Blackfyre Rebellion. Hedge knight Dunk swears his sword to him.

Babou Ceesay (Alien: Earth, Into the Badlands) volition play Ser Bennis. In the novella, Ser Bennis of the Brown Shield is simply a chap hedge knight and state of Dunk’s.

Showrunner Ira Parker precocious told IGN that Mullan playing Eustace “is conscionable my favourite happening successful the full satellite due to the fact that I retrieve erstwhile I saw him connected Top of the Lake and conscionable thought, ‘One time I'm going to fig retired however to enactment with that actor.’ And truthful for this to hap is precise nice.”

For more, observe everything we cognize (so far) astir A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Season 2, work our A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1 finale review, and find retired however the Targaryens’ top obsessions pass what happens to Dunk and Egg successful the future.

Photo credits: Lucy Boynton (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images), Peter Mullan (Photo by Euan Cherry/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA), and Babou Ceesay (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images).