We’re watching as cast member after cast member either says goodbye to Game of Thrones or openly contemplates how they’re going to change their hair life after it’s over. We’re nearing the end, and it’s surreal, but we’re not quite done. Some stars still have scenes to shoot, including Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who talked with Variety about the final season of the show while at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which is happening now. Watch the video interview below, and we’ll hit the highlights:
“I don’t think it’ll ever be gone from my life,” Coster-Waldau said when asked whether he was completely finished filming the show. “I’m going back to Belfast next week, so I’m not 100% done, but the last scene in the script, I’ve shot that; the last scene with me.”
Belfast, of course, is the nerve center of filming on the show. At the moment, all eyes are on the enormous King’s Landing set the production has built on a backlot, but there are plenty of interior sets tucked out of sight, too.
Naturally, Coster-Waldau described shooting Jaime’s final scene as emotional. But emotional how? Jaime-marries-Brienne emotional or Jaime-gets-eaten-whole-by-a-dragon emotional? We’ll have to wait on the answer to that one.
Coster-Waldau also talked about what fans can expect from the ending. “I was satisfied,” he said. “I think it’s one of those things…you don’t want it to end. If I’m watching a show that I love, I just don’t want it to end. So any ending is kind of like, ‘Ahgh!’”
But I think they will be satisfied. Everyone on the show show worked harder than ever before. We spent twice as much time shooting these six episodes than we did on two full seasons before. No expense has been spared. We’ve gone all in. We really hope people will like it. We’ve done our best.
We’re obviously looking at an actor trying to describe the ending of the show without describing the ending of the show. By this point, he’s pretty practiced at it. “I thought that Dan Weiss [and] David Benioff, the creators, they just couldn’t have done a better job [of] ending our story.”
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