A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms star Peter Claffey "didn't think we'd be able to ever hit the level of quality of season 1," but season 2 is "incredible"

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 2 is currently filming, and star Peter Claffey, who plays the eponymous knight Ser Dunk, says it'll live up to the hype generated by season 1. Claffey says the new season, which adapts the novella The Sworn Sword, is "totally different," but still in line with the quality fans have come to expect from the show.

"It's totally different. The Sworn Sword is my favorite novella of the three in the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms book. It's a tragic love story. It's a completely different job for Dunk to navigate," Claffey tells The Playlist. "And I suppose he has his first kind of experience with…his first kind of experience with kind of trying to navigate talking and chatting to women, which he's terrible at, and trying to establish a work relationship with a woman, which he's absolutely awful at."

"So yeah, it's been so much fun to shoot and, so far, everybody that's come on has been just amazing," Claffey continues, praising the show's new cast members and what they bring to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. "I didn't think we'd be able to ever hit the level of quality of season one, but the people that have come in, I mean, people have been confirmed now, as well as Lucy Boyton and Babou Ceesay. And yeah, just people have come in and just been incredible, incredible."

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 is streaming now in its entirety on HBO Max. For more, check out our 4-star A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms review for our spoiler-free thoughts on the entire show, or dive into our spoiler-filled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms ending explained.