Is Benjamin Evan Ainsworth Hollywood’s go-to actor for playing characters trapped by terrifying generational trauma? @British Film Institute benjamin.evan.ainsworth 🤯🎬From the political battlegrounds of Westeros to the haunted corridors of the Flanaverse, his roles are always defined by a heavy question: Can you ever truly escape the dark sins of your family? Daeron Targaryen (House of the Dragon): Known as Daeron the Green, this young prince is isolated from his immediate family in Oldtown as a ward to Lord Ormund Hightower. Instead of a peaceful life, he is dragged right back into a bloody civil war. Dragged down by the ruthless political ambitions of Ormund and his Targaryen relatives long before he has a say, Daeron anchors the devastating moral weight of a dark, inherited fantasy empire. 🐉🔥Miles Wingrave (The Haunting of Bly Manor): His performance as Miles is a heartbreaking masterclass in loss of innocence. Miles's behaviours in the show are genuinely traumatising—watching a little boy manipulate adults, commit acts of animal cruelty, and exhibit deeply unsettling, adult-like malice because he is slowly being overtaken by a literal, vengeful spirit possession. He is possessed by Peter Quint, the toxic ghost who forces Miles to torment his new governess, Dani Clayton. It's a dark burden Miles never agreed to carry. 👻🏰Alex Burgess (The Sandman): Alex spends his entire youth watching his father, the occultist Roderick Burgess, commit horrific crimes, trapping Alex inside a legacy of generational trauma. It gets intensely dark when Alex accidentally kills his own father during an argument and subsequently takes over the responsibility of keeping a literal god- Dream, the lord of the Dreaming and the Sandman himself, trapped in a basement cage for decades, living in absolute terror of divine retribution. Finally stepping into Hyrule as Link in Zelda means everything changes. After a string of characters defined by tragic baggage, he finally gets to play an iconic hero whose entire journey is about his own agency. #daerontargaryen #houseofthedragon #houseofthdragonhbo #houseofthedragonedits #houseofthedragons3 - @dipitacore