A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms stars break down episode 3's game-changing reveal: "He feels utterly betrayed"

*Warning: Spoilers ahead for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 3.*

The big reveal that fans have been waiting for has finally come in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - and Egg's (Dexter Sol Ansell) weird behaviour around the Targyaryens has officially been explained.

Yes, the young squire accompanying Peter Claffey's hedge knight Dunk revealed at the end of the episode that he is not just Egg, but Prince Aegon, youngest son of Maekar Targaryen (Sam Spruell). Everyone, let out that breath you've been holding!

Speaking to RadioTimes.com and other press, Claffey explained a little about what that game-changing reveal means for the pair.

"Dunk has absolutely zero idea," he explained.

"It's a shock realisation of what's going on, and the way that Ira [Parker, showrunner] wrote it - he's having a conversation with Raymun just before about Makear's kids and how much of a disaster they all are, and the way it's built up like, 'And the youngest!' It's so well done.

"But I think Dunk just feels completely and utterly betrayed, I suppose. While being sort of in awe of him, and sort of like, 'Oh, my god, he saved my life,' there's just complete betrayal there, because he knew exactly how dangerous it would be for for Dunk to be seen bringing him around as a squire, or potentially giving him a clout in the ear, or asking him to do all these different things when he's a prince of the realm. So I think it's just betrayal."

Despite the gravity of that moment, Ansell admits it was much more light-hearted on set.

Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com, he revealed: "When I first read that, and my mun was reading it to me, I was like, 'Oh, wow,' because I knew he was a Targaryen from the start, but I was like, 'Oh, this is the reveal. I'm ready for this.'

"So then on the day, when we're there, it's a night shoot, and it's very late for me because I'm just a kid. I was nine then, so I got very tired easily, and this was, like, at midnight. So the director brought these fizzy gummy worms.

"And then this one take, it was the biggest moment, the moment where I completely reveal myself, and [the director] gives me one and then they say action, and I'm like, 'one minute, I've still got the worm in my mouth!' It was absolutely hilarious."

Meanwhile, Parker has pointed out how that moment required a lot of work in the first three episodes.

He told Radio Times's Huw Fullerton: "It was very important in the first three episodes for us to deepen that bond as much as possible; for us to really show what they’re like hanging out, because obviously we knew what we were going to do, and we knew things were never going to theoretically be the same ever again.

"So that was one of the places that we added a little bit to the novellas, and I think it’s paid dividends for us."

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