When Game of Thrones fans learned that Steve Toussaint would play Corlys Velaryon in House of the Dragon, trolls flooded social media with racist backlash. He said, “Oh, I get it. When we were criminals and pirates and slaves in the other show, you were OK with that. But as this guy is the richest [character] in the show and he’s a nobleman, now you have a problem with it.”