'House of the Dragon's Abubakar Salim on Alyn's relationship with Corlys: 'He's haunted by him'

Fatherhood has played a large role in Abubakar Salim's work over the past few years.

From 2020 to 2022, the actor and game developer starred in Raised by Wolves as Father, an android raising human children on planet Kepler-22b. In 2024, his video game studio Surgent Studios released Tales of Kenzera: Zau, a side-scroller about a shaman on a quest to revive his father. As creative lead on Zau, Salim drew on his grief for his own late father, describing the game as "a piece of art that honored him" at the 2023 Game Awards.