“Don’t listen to me,” Nikolaj Coster-Waldau says, “but do listen to the experts, the scientists.” In September, during part of his U.N.-sponsored visit, he visited a fire-scarred forest in Peru.

Lannister’s Greatest Battle Yet

In a post-Thrones world, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has become a climate warrior

By Julia Llewellyn Smith

Was Nikolaj Coster-Waldau — best known as the “Kingslayer”, Jaime Lannister, the sexy, incest-loving baddie (turned goodie, turned … it’s complicated) from Game of Thrones — devastated when the hit television show ended this year?

The Danish actor shrugs. “No, I was fine.” After eight series, though, many of the cast were apparently inconsolable. “Yes, I heard that, but I wasn’t. I don’t want to sound ungrateful, I really enjoyed it, but at the end of the day it was just a television show. I would work on it for a maximum of 30 days a year, then I would do other stuff that I would spend more time on. Of course it was a bit sad, when you’ve spent 10 years with a group of people, to know you won’t be seeing them regularly any more, but the job was over. It had run its course — you couldn’t really squeeze any more out of it.”