As one among the few ladies in the cast of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Tanzyn Crawford stands out in the Game of Thrones spinoff. Her character, Tanselle, additionally makes an enormous impression on the present’s awkward hero, Dunk (Peter Claffey). Wandering round the camp that’s sprung up at the Ashford event, he occurs to catch her performing with a puppet troupe and is immediately smitten.
Tanselle is eye-catching on her personal, however the present she’s part of is additionally reasonably arresting, involving costumes and intricately detailed props, together with a fire-breathing dragon. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is set in a Westeros the place precise dragons died out a couple of generations prior, after the occasions depicted in Home of the Dragon. So the viewers is aware of dragons as soon as existed, however they’ve by no means truly seen one.
At a latest press day for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, io9 was a part of a roundtable the place Crawford was requested how the puppet exhibits we see in episodes one and two—and can see in future episodes—got here collectively. The performances solely get moments of display time, nevertheless it nonetheless has the really feel of an entire present that we’ve occurred to catch a glimpse of, simply as Dunk has.
“The choreography that we established [for] the puppet present, everyone labored out collectively,” Crawford mentioned. “There have been, I feel, 5 – 6 individuals inside that dragon, controlling every wing after which the head after which the physique and the tail. Every thing was very giant and really heavy. In order that’s like—props to them. I really feel like I’m getting the credit score, however I didn’t do the puppet. [It’s] wonderful what they did. They actually introduced that piece of cardboard to life. In order that was actually cool.”
As for Tanselle’s half in the present, Crawford fastidiously labored round the dragon crew. “I simply tried my greatest to make it simple for them to slot in between the choreography,” she defined. “The opposite puppet exhibits we did, with the extra human-looking tales, and naturally the model the place Tanselle performs the knight, all of us simply choreographed [them] collectively. Principally we deliberate a stage present as you’d for any manufacturing; we simply made certain we had been dealing with the viewers. I suppose [we] had to tweak it just a little bit to work for the digicam, however actually it simply felt like we had been rehearsing for a stage present.”
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is centered on Dunk’s adventures, so we don’t get a ton of background on Tanselle. That’s additionally the case in George R.R. Martin’s source-material novella. (Her nickname does carry over from web page to display: “Tanselle Too-Tall,” an attribute that additional endears her to the towering hedge knight.) However Crawford had a superb grasp on the character that helped her flesh out the function.
“Her function inside the troupe—I think about that she’s a really artistic particular person and a artistic spirit,” Crawford mentioned. “I feel she will get pleasure from portray and from taking these quiet moments and crafting herself, which I feel is why perhaps the onstage half is not her favourite facet. However [it’s] one thing she nonetheless enjoys; in any other case, I don’t assume she would do it.”
We see a little bit of shyness in her face when she’s onstage. However Tanselle is nonetheless assured in her expertise and expertise, Crawford mentioned. “I do assume she is a frontrunner inside this troupe, somebody that’s very educated and somebody that has been part of this troupe for a very long time along with her uncle and her aunt.”
New episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms arrive Sundays on HBO and HBO Max.
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