Everything Game of Thrones stars have said about season 8

“All the pieces fit.”

Lastly, let’s hit up Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), who has some thoughts about how the ending fits into a greater whole.?”I?ve spent so many years working on this and been guessing and trying to figure out how this will end,” he said, “and when I read it, some of the parts of it I?d get, and other parts of it were just completely shocking and surprising.?And it wasn?t, there were none of those horrible ? you know shows where it?s a murder mystery and at the very last minute you find out it doesn?t make sense? But here all the pieces fit into this massive jigsaw puzzle.”

This is a note Coster-Waldau hit a lot. Here he is relating what happens in season 8 to earlier parts of the series:

• One of the great things about this show is that there are a lot of ? also in season 8 ? moments where you go ?Oooooh, I remember that in [reaching for random example] season 2, Episode 3, that happened?[Jaime had] the tiniest of moments with Jon Snow in Episode 1?[Jaime] said, ?Good luck at the Wall, we need great men like you.? And always, me and Kit Harington spoke about it; surely at one point we?re gonna meet again. There must be some payoff. And now, at least, [Jaime?s] going north. So he?s trying to get up there. We?ll see if he makes it. You never know.”

And back to the first note: “I also know that we end the right way and the show ends on its own terms. When I read the scripts for the last season, I was like, ?Wow, they really pulled it off.? It?s one story from season 1 to 8 and it makes sense.”

Finally, how would he describe season 8 in three words? “Surprising. Enormous. Heartbreaking.”

Sounds good to me. See you in April.

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