Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: “You can find the ending of Game of Thrones on the internet”

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau continues to hit the press trail to promote his new movie Small Crimes, now streaming on Netflix. Coster-Waldau plays an ex-con ex-cop named Joe, “a fuck-up” whom the actor seems very glad to play. Check out the trailer:

But any interviewer who gets Coster-Waldau in a room is gonna ask about Jaime Lannister and Game of Thrones, and Vinnie Mancuso of Observer is no exception. And while Coster-Waldau wasn’t willing to give away any direct spoilers, he did skate close to the edge. “For years there was the whole thing with ‘book readers’ who knew what was going to happen,” he said. “But it is more intense now, because nobody knows. There has been a couple times where I’ve actually, by accident, said something I shouldn’t have. But because nobody knows, they don’t necessarily pick up on it.”

Coster-Waldau has certainly been open about the show of late, saying alternately that Jaime is “committed to his sister” and that the theory that Jaime will Cersei “absolutely makes sense.” Are those statements contradictory? Maybe, maybe not. Coster-Waldau is banking on the idea that there’s so much noise out there that people won’t be able to discern the real spoilers from the fake ones.

"If you go online you can definitely read every plot point that’s going to happen. You can find the ending of Game of Thrones on the internet. It’s there. But you wouldn’t know. Of course, nobody really wants to know."

Okay, but does that mean that he, y’know, knows the ending, and could he tell us? “Maybe I should try it one day. Just say, ‘Yeah, here is exactly what happens.’ You’d probably just go, ‘Pfffft, no, it’s not.’”

While we all chew on that, Observer also asked Coster-Waldau how he’d like Jaime to die. “It has to be a dragon death,” he said, grinning. “It’s got to be the dragons that get him…Just fried. He has to burn. Has to.”

The actor’s not just having fun here, though. There’s a reason he thinks death by dragon fire would be particularly appropriate — it has to do with the scene from season 3 where Jaime told Brienne the story of when he killed the Mad King.

"That scene in season 3 was a very important moment. The most important for Jaime, I think, was in that bath with Brienne. It was called ‘Kissed by Fire,’ that episode. Which is why I think Jaime should be killed by fire."

It’s hard to tell when this guy’s joking. In any case, we’ll know more when season 7 debuts on July 16.