{"id":782,"date":"2026-07-11T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:30:06","slug":"montreal-comiccon-harry-lloyd-qa-screenhub-entertainment-screenhub-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Comiccon Harry Lloyd Q&#038;A \u2013 ScreenHub Entertainment \u2013 ScreenHub Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/harrylloyd.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Montreal Comiccon Harry Lloyd Q&#038;A \u2013 ScreenHub Entertainment \u2013 ScreenHub Entertainment\" title=\"Montreal Comiccon Harry Lloyd Q&#038;A \u2013 ScreenHub Entertainment \u2013 ScreenHub Entertainment\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harry Lloyd hopped over to the Montreal Comiccon, and as you can imagine, a lot of the conversation revolved around his involvement with the acclaimed show <em>Arcane<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But to start off, did you know he\u2019s the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens? Neat bit of trivia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arcane | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fXmAurh012s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harry Lloyd observed in his opening of the panel that in his career, he\u2019s seemingly unknowingly slipped into large fandoms without even realizing what he was about to get himself into. He had no idea <em><a href=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/2022\/11\/04\/who-had-the-better-season-one-house-of-the-dragon-or-game-of-thrones-screenhub-entertainment\/\">Game of Thrones<\/a> <\/em>would become the juggernaut it became, or that <em>Arcane <\/em>would become as popular as it was. Heck, he didn\u2019t even know about <em>Doctor Who<\/em> when he joined Doctor Who back in 2007, when David Tennant was the Doctor. He, of course, knew about the X-Men, but still couldn\u2019t wrap his head around being one of the few actors to bring Charles Xavier to life during the third season of <em>Legion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But once the rumination began, we started talking a lot about <em>Arcane<\/em>. Note: if you still haven\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/2021\/12\/08\/arcane-is-nothing-short-of-masterful-spoiler-free-review-screenhub-entertainment\/\">seen <em>Arcane<\/em>, please, do yourself the favour.<\/a> As <em>Arcane <\/em>is based on the hit game<em> League of Legends<\/em>, there wasn\u2019t a lot of story present in the game, but a ton of lore that was kind of compiled by the fandom over the years. He had no idea about LoL, so he felt quite free going into the audition knowing that not only did he know nothing about the game, but that the franchise wasn\u2019t bogged down by canonical lore that the writers and actors had to adhere to.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"62018\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/2026\/07\/10\/montreal-comiccon-harry-lloyd-qa-screenhub-entertainment\/image-943\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-27.png\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-27.png?w=720\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-27.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-27.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-27.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-27.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-27.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-27.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">[Credit: Netflix]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it came time to audition for the role of Viktor, Lloyd tapped into his work on the film Anthropoid back in 2016, where he played a WWII Czech resistance fighter. Lloyd\u2019s brother was a fan of LoL and encouraged him to go to the audition; he tapped into that accent that he did. But they recorded his audition in a car in Orange County, and Lloyd couldn\u2019t quite remember how he did the accent, so he intentionally ended up doing a bad Czech accent for the audition. But since Viktor and the world in <em>Arcane <\/em>is fantastical, the made-up botched accent actually worked perfectly for the role of Viktor. Despite Piltover, the fictional upper city within the universe of Arcane being fictional, Lloyd tapped into real-world history and politics when fleshing out the idea of Viktor. Using the Eastern European accent as a baseline, he would imagine Vik as being a child born within the Soviet Union and likely caught polio when he was young, which led to his disability. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest challenge when it came to recording Viktor was the extended periods in between sessions, chiefly between the two seasons, as he was terrified he would lose the very particular accent he cultivated for Vik. But to help with the recording sessions, he would often have his cat with him, which would provide warmth and comfort to the sessions, putting a smile on his face that made recording more relaxing. He also confirmed that the \u201cknowledge is a paradox\u201d line is his absolute favourite line in the whole series, regardless of him being the one to say it. He also did know the end of the show in advance, but didn\u2019t have any of the visual cues for how Viktor would look or sound as the season would progress, meaning he couldn\u2019t fully wrap his head around it. And while he can\u2019t per se pick a favourite character from the show, his wife has gifted him with Heimerdinger socks, so maybe there is an obvious pick!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"62019\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/2026\/07\/10\/montreal-comiccon-harry-lloyd-qa-screenhub-entertainment\/image-944\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-28.png\" data-orig-size=\"488,427\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-28.png?w=488\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"488\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-28.png?w=488\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62019\" style=\"width:625px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-28.png 488w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-28.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-28.png?w=300 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">[Credit: Netflix]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, it wasn\u2019t all just <em>Arcane<\/em>, as Lloyd is perhaps also best known for playing Viserys in <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>\u2018 first season. He stated, maybe as a joke, maybe not, that since he was only in the first season, he was there when everyone was in good spirits and friendly towards everyone, but he isn\u2019t so sure that was the case by the end of the show. Much like Viktor, he did know the end of his arc before seeing the scripts and was able to prepare for that in advance. And while most of his scenes in season one were shot in Malta, he did film his death scene in the studio lot in Belfast. That day, it was raining so hard that you could hear the rain hitting the roof, rendering all the dialogue unusable for the scene, forcing almost the whole sequence to be redubbed with ADR in post-production.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"62020\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/2026\/07\/10\/montreal-comiccon-harry-lloyd-qa-screenhub-entertainment\/image-945\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-29.png\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-29.png?w=720\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-29.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-29.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-29.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-29.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-29.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-29.png?w=1440 1440w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-29.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">[Credit: HBO]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also emphasized that trying to act drunk, as an actor, can result in some terrible acting. So in between takes for his death sequence, he would go to the rest area, get his tea and blanket, and slip in a bit of whiskey he snagged into the tea. He didn\u2019t get drunk, but the taste and the smell allowed him to tap into that mindset to put on a more convincing performance. He also stated that the scar on Viserys\u2019 chest was something he pitched to HBO, who are very receptive to input from their actors, at least on Thrones. He liked the idea that Viserys had a rough time of it in exile and has the scars to prove it. Jason Momoa, who played Khal Drogo, also pitched to HBO that Drogo should walk into the blade during the duel that would ultimately claim his life. The rationale was that Drogo wouldn\u2019t get hurt in a duel, being the fiercest warrior, so he would walk into the blade to prove his ferocity to his opponent, which in turn led to the open wound. He also pitched that Drogo should rip out his opponent\u2019s tongue, which they approved of and commissioned a prop tongue for the scene. He also emphasized that Jason Momoa\u2019s hugs hurt a lot, and that the man is Tigger from Pooh Bear, but in the body of the Hulk. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"62021\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/2026\/07\/10\/montreal-comiccon-harry-lloyd-qa-screenhub-entertainment\/image-946\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-30.png\" data-orig-size=\"1500,998\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-30.png?w=720\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-30.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-30.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-30.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-30.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-30.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-30.png?w=1440 1440w, https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-30.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">[Credit: HBO]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lloyd may have only worked on the first season of Thrones, but that wasn\u2019t his only tenure in Westeros, having done the audiobook for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/screenhub.blog\/2026\/02\/23\/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-the-morrow-spoiler-review-and-season-one-thoughts-screenhub-entertainment\/\">A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms<\/a><\/em> after meeting George R.R. Martin in Santa Fe. He liked the challenge that an audiobook provided, which saw him do the individual voices for over 100 characters in the book, which, as he stated, made his life so much harder for no reason. He quite liked doing audiobooks and would love to do more. And yes, he has done an audiobook for a Charles Dickens novel, <em>Great Expectations<\/em>, to be exact, and would be interested in playing his relative one day in a film, but thinks live-action does Dickens\u2019 works a disservice. He initially had no interest in Dickens\u2019 works as a youth, but by 16, he got into it and even did his thesis on Dickens. But he also knows that a fun bit of trivia is just that, and there\u2019s no legacy burden for him to bear, something he thinks is ridiculous. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that concludes the Q&amp;A with Harry Lloyd! We thank him for his time and for coming over to visit! <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Lloyd hopped over to the Montreal Comiccon, and as you can imagine, a lot of the conversation revolved around his involvement with the acclaimed show Arcane. But to start off, did you know he\u2019s the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens? Neat bit of trivia. 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