Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Goes to Prison
The Danish actor traded his 'Game of Thrones' armor for tattoos and a shiv to play a financier-turned-violent gang banger in 'Shot Caller.'
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has the best furtive eye roll in the business. In the first episode of the seventh season of Game of Thrones, playing the roguish knight Ser Jaime Lannister, he observes Cersei, his twin and mother of their three dead children, delivering an unhinged declaration of revenge and world domination. As he stands over his sister-lover, Jaime’s expression is priceless: devotion tempered by a sidelong glance of “Yup, she cray-cray.”
Lannister is a classic bad guy. And yet if, as some predict, he will be the final hero of , viewers will buy it, because the Danish actor has, with shadings of warmth and wit, humanized a character that has committed incest, shoved
