Star of the new Game of Thrones spin-off ‘A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms’, Peter Claffey is getting ahead of the incoming comments and apologizing to his mum and dad for some of the uncomfortable scenes involving his bowels that audiences are about to see.
Former rugby pro-turned-actor Peter plays Dunk in the new spin-off, opposite his young co-star Dexter Sol Answell who plays Egg. Speaking from the UK Special Screening of ‘A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms’ Peter spoke about joining the GoT universe, and how he’s found the switch from professional sport to film.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ launches on 19 January 2026 on Sky and streaming service NOW. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00I do apologize to everybody across the world for that, especially my mother and father.
00:09It feels a bit surreal. It's the same with a lot of filming, television and everything in this industry.
00:18You put so much effort and work into something and then there's just silence for a long time and then everything comes back in a huge way.
00:28And to be part of that journey and that experience, like for the whole entire thing and to feel very much integral to that journey, it makes it almost more, I don't know, more emotional and more visceral to finally be here.
00:44And I hope everybody's going to enjoy it. Yeah, it is terrifying too. It is scary to be here, but it has been a great press tour so far.
00:53I love that. I love your journey from athlete to actor. I just want to take you back to the rugby days of Akan.
01:02That as a transition, it makes me think of like surely in the changing rooms with the labs, were you like a class clown per se?
01:08Were you like, you know, is that the transition? Is that why acting was a seamless transition for you?
01:12Yeah, maybe. I think that's probably about the only thing I contributed to Connocks towards the end was a bit of gesture class clown stuff.
01:21Every team needs them, to be honest. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I think, you know, when I started getting serious at rugby, I was quite young and it became sort of an identity thing.
01:35And everything got put in the back burner then that you're, you know, the performance aspects and other things that you're very interested in.
01:41And when I, when I finished up with it, I kind of had to figure out what I wanted to do after.
01:47And I tried to, I suppose, relight that fire of passion for sort of the arts and performance and took a chance coming into acting.
01:57And yeah, I've been incredibly lucky. I went to Bow Street in Dublin for an intensive screen acting school year and then got my agents after it, everybody at Lisa Richards.
02:11And they took a chance on me and I've been incredibly lucky ever since. And now I get to come to things like this and talk to you.
02:19Maybe there is no answer to this question, but you obviously, your transition from athlete to actor is not one that many people have done, but some have.
02:26Is there any like kind of like industry person who you can point at and be like, oh, Vinnie Jones, The Rock, like Terry Crews, like people who've done what you've done.
02:33Is there anyone you've thought about, you can have a parallel?
02:35Not really. I think, you know, everybody has their own different stories. And yeah, I think it's, I assume all those people have such different sort of relationships with their, with their life as athletes and their lives now in the industry.
02:53And it would be great to be able to talk to people like that, of course, but everybody's journey is so different and organic and original.
03:02And yeah, I'm just glad to be where I am now. I feel like I've found what I'm most passionate about.
03:09I'm happy for you. And final question from me. I was asking Dexter, what were the, Game of Thrones is known for, you know, some like squelchy, uncomfortable scenes.
03:16What's the grossest thing you saw while shooting season one?
03:20My own bowel movements, a hundred percent.
03:23Which all the audience will see in soon too.
03:25Yeah, they will. And I do apologize to everybody across the world for that, especially my mother and father.
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