'House of the Dragon': Daniel Scott-Smith Discusses the 'Freedom' Behind Playing the Crabfeeder

House of the Dragon has given fans a taste of how Targaryens like to solve their problems... with a little help of dragon fire. In the third episode ‘Second of His Name,’ we finally see Daemon putting an end to the War of the Stepstones. The seeds for the war were planted throughout Episodes 1 and 2 with the Crabfeeder, a.k.a Craghas Drahar and his men becoming the nuisance at the Triarchy, leading to Daemon and Lord Corlys’ joining hands to put an end to it.

COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY In George R.R. Martin’s books, the Crabfeeder has broadly the same arc: he commands the Triarchy army, rules Stepstones, and is defeated by Daemon with just a slight difference. While House of Dragon takes a three-year time jump, Crabfeeder rules the Stepstones for a decade in the books. Not much is elaborated about the character in Martin’s original work as well, so, the makers took the liberty to explore the character a bit more in the series.

Scott-Smith reveals that while it's nice to have a fleshed-out character, he feels “it's also nice when it's a completely open book.” Further, elaborating his approach, he reveals that not having details gave them the freedom to portray the character as they like, adding, “which on a creative level was incredible for me and I think for the directors, as well, because we could play with it and build our own version of Crabfeeder.

The actor also confirmed the eagle-eyed fans’ speculation, that the mask that he is wearing is akin to the ones worn by the Sons of the Harpy in Meereen in Game of Thrones. He revealed, “And we spoke about the idea of him being the first person to wear this mask and it becoming iconic and, therefore, it's built from that [for Game of Thrones]... Why is he wearing the mask? How does he feel about that? It's a power statement, so he's quite happy wearing it.”

What character? He turned out to be Sea Snoke. No backstory, no motivation, not characterization. The most thinly written villain I've seen in years. Just atrocious writing.

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