This House Of The Dragon Actor Also Starred On GoT, And Nobody Noticed
With a gap of 200 years between events in Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, you probably wouldn't expect to see any characters appearing in both. But did you notice that one actor was cast in both shows?
Don't worry if you didn't. After all, he had a very small part to play in the Game of Thrones, with very little screen time and a pretty quick exit from the show when his character was killed off in the same episode we met him.
In House of the Dragon, Jefferson Hall played two roles, appearing as Lord Jason Lannister and his twin brother Tyland. But he also appeared in a single episode of Game of Thrones season 1 as Ser Hugh of the Vale.
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Of course, like many Games of Thrones characters, Ser Hugh met an untimely death. And with so many of the biggest characters in the show meeting the same fate, you can be forgiven for missing the scene in which Jefferson Hall's bit-part role in Game of Thrones was abruptly ended.
It was in episode 4 of GoT that Hall appeared as Ser Hugh – a freshly-made knight who made a terrible and deadly mistake.
Ser Hugh decided for some bizarre reason that as a 'new out of the box knight' knight, he should enter a jousting tournament held in honour of Eddard Stark who was played by Sean Bean. During the tournament, he faced Ser Gregor Clegane who was also known as The Mountain. Played in season 1 by Conan Stevens, The Mountain was something of a legendary figure in the jousting arena.
So, it was no surprise when Ser Hugh met his death at the hands of Ser Gregor. During the joust, he was killed by a splintered lance and was never seen again.
So, if you saw Hall in House of the Dragon and wondered why he looked familiar, it might not be that you got confused by the fact that one actor was playing two characters and you couldn't remember which you were introduced to first.
Instead, it could simply be that House of the Dragon wasn't, in fact, Hall's first visit to Westeros. Fortunately, with him playing such a short and minor role in Game of Thrones, there was very little for the showrunners to worry about in terms of continuity.