James Norton on Ormund’s Gruesome ‘House of the Dragon’ Scene
If you made a list of “love to hate” characters from House of the Dragon season three, the despicably slimy yet deliciously campy Ormund Hightower would have to be at the top. After pretending to surrender to Daemon Targaryen and handing over a fake Daeron Targaryen, complete with hair bleached that telltale shade of white blonde, Ormund marched to Tumbleton and occupied the town. From afar, he fueled a vicious anti-Rhaenyra sabotage campaign in King’s Landing.
- ▪If you made a list of “love to hate” characters from House of the Dragon season three, the despicably slimy yet deliciously campy Ormund Hightower would have to be at the top.
- ▪After pretending to surrender to Daemon Targaryen and handing over a fake Daeron Targaryen, complete with hair bleached that telltale shade of white blonde, Ormund marched to Tumbleton and occupied the town.
- ▪From afar, he fueled a vicious anti-Rhaenyra sabotage campaign in King’s Landing.
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If you made a list of “love to hate” characters from House of the Dragon season three, the despicably slimy yet deliciously campy Ormund Hightower would have to be at the top. After pretending to surrender to Daemon Targaryen and handing over a fake Daeron Targaryen, complete with hair bleached that telltale shade of white blonde, Ormund marched to Tumbleton and occupied the town. From afar, he fueled a vicious anti-Rhaenyra sabotage campaign in King’s Landing. In his day-to-day life, he loomed large over young Prince Daeron, whom he’d raised and targeted with his control-freak tendencies. Ormund could never rule, so he focused on Daeron instead, the most Hightower-like among all the potentially eligible Targaryens.
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