Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Charles Dance, who played Jaime and Tywin Lannister respectively on Game of Thrones, are reuniting for a new Netflix movie called Against the Ice, where Coster-Waldau plays real-life Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen. Mikkelsen sets off for the Arctic to find out what happened to the ill-fated Denmark Expedition, which never returned after leaving to explore the northeast coast of Greenland in 1906. Why Mikkelsen thought he would have any more luck I don’t know, but at least we got a movie out of it.
Dance played an invented character named Neergaard, who charges Mikkelsen with recovering the records from the Denmark Expedition. Cue frostbite, starvation, madness, and the trailer:
“Charles is a wonderful man and a brilliant actor,” Coster-Waldau told Entertainment Weekly. “I asked him to join us and he was incredibly generous in accepting the part and he brings all and more I hoped for to the film. We had a week together.”
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has a very different perspective on Game of Thrones
EW couldn’t resist asking Coster-Waldau if Dance plays “an a–hole” like he did on Thrones. Coster-Waldau’s response was way funnier than I was expecting:
What do you mean by a–hole? Have you watched GOT? It’s about this family called the Lannisters … our heroes … that fight these other mean horrible families that use dirty tricks, weird supernatural powers, and are scary religious cult fanatics. Charles played the head of the family, my loving caring dad, universally loved by all. He died on a Thursday that in Westeros now is called the Day of Our Saint.
You know, I never thought about it like that. Makes you think.
Against the Ice drops on Netflix on March 2. Coster-Waldau wrote the screenplay with Joe Derrick, so this is something of a passion project for him.
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