'A Knight of Seven Kingdoms' Star Tanzyn Crawford Responds to Racial Backlash

The first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has wrapped up on HBO after receiving near-universal praise and impressive viewership numbers. The series offered a kinder, gentler take on the Game of Thrones universe while still including violence and brutality.

Toward the end of the season, a narrative circulated online — pushed by prominent right-wing influencers like Jack Posobiec — that the show was succeeding because it was "non-woke," centering two straight white men: Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell).

As that messaging spread, Tanzyn Crawford, who played the only prominent character of color on the series, experienced racial backlash. "It was intimidating to step into something that people are so connected to, love so much and have a lot of opinions about," Crawford told Wonderland magazine.

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