Nikolaj Coster-Waldau talks Jaime Lannister’s perfect death

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) stopped by the recent Argentina Comic Con, and naturally, everyone wanted to talk to him about Game of Thrones. Check out the video interview below, where he discusses, among other things, how he’d like Jaime to die and what was going through Jaime’s mind when he pushed Bran out a window way back in the season premiere.

So what kind of death does Coster-Waldau want for Jaime? Death by old age. “And then the last thing he says is, like, ‘Brienne, I always loved you.’”

That was a joke. Mostly. Going a little deeper, Coster-Waldau contemplated the end:

If he had to go, I think, you know, it seems to me that, if you look at the whole show, fire is a big part of Jaime’s story, so I think he’s gonna get burned to a tiny little crisp bit of bacon by a dragon.

By “fire is a big part of Jaime’s story,” I’m guessing he’s referring to the time Jaime stopped the Mad King from burning down King’s Landing. Stay tuned.

Coster-Waldau also mounted an interesting defense of Jaime’s first big sin: pushing Bran Stark out a window and crippling him for life.

I never saw him as a villain. And I don’t think he was a villain when he tried to kill Bran…I’m not saying it’s a good thing…I saw him making a very brutal decision based on facts. The facts were if this kid tells anyone what he just saw, my sister, probably myself, all the children are gonna get killed. So it’s us or him.

Make of that what you will.

Finally, he revealed what he could about season 7. “It’s coming right after season 6.” Thank you.