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NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU:
 You can't be in this business
without having
a fundamental passion for it.
And, like,
a joy of storytelling.
And something like this
is so rare,
 that you get to have so many
 talented people come together,
experience a success like this,
to work with the very best
in the business,
and get to go out on a high.
 It's been a...
 an incredible journey.
 Well, I remember
 my first scene we shot
 from the pilot.
 And that was, uh, the king's
 arrival at Winterfell.
Everyone's wearing
all these huge costumes, right?
 And I do remember this moment
 you know, the king rides in
 on horseback,
and he has to get off his horse.
And it's, like,
a very powerful moment.
Well, because Mark Addy,
who played Robert Baratheon,
his robe was enormous.
 I mean, there was no way
 he could get off the horse
 in an elegant way.
The horse rides in, he's like,
(GRUNTS)
And then-- "Hold, everyone!"
And then they run in
with, like, a ladder.
 They help him down,
and they run out with the ladder
 and then, "Carry on!"
 "Ah, here we go."
I do remember that.
Those were the glorious moments.
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The final scene of episode one,
 we shot that
 in three different versions.
One where I was butt naked
up against the wall
 with this very sweet
 local body double,
 and then another one where
 I was on the ground,
 and a third--
I mean, it was-- various levels
of, of, of nakedness.
 I think we ended on
 a fairly dressed version,
which I think was definitely
the right choice.
The things I do for love.
(BRAN STARK GASPS)
(BEAR GROWLS)
Get behind me.
COSTER-WALDAU:
Jaime is such a great character
 to plan
 a great storyline, and
there's a couple of scenes,
 like the bathtub scene
 with Brienne
 was a great scene to shoot.
Kingslayer. Oathbreaker.
Man without Honor.
COSTER-WALDAU: Gwen and Lena,
 they're just brilliant,
and very, very different,
and then of course
their characters
are so different,
 which makes it fun
 because it's kind of a
 different version of Jaime
 you get to see.
This isn't a war we can win.
And the same, you know,
with Dinklage and Jerome.
 Very different versions
 of Jaime there.
 I mean...
 they're all great.
 I think the most fun
 scene we shot
 was season seven,
 we shot this big sequence,
 the loot train attack.
And we shot that in Spain,
outside-- just outside
a town called Cáceres.
 It was such
 a beautiful location,
 and there was something about
 being outside every day
 and being on horseback.
 I love riding.
 It was just-- you know,
 over the years,
 this show has grown, you know,
 it's so big now.
I don't think you could find
anything bigger,
even if you went
to feature movies.
It's so ridiculous.
 But the last year, in Spain,
 you had the grandness,
 but it was still--
 it still felt intimate.
And yeah, you do feel lucky when
you get to experience those.
 I'm gonna miss the people.
 The crew, everyone involved
 with this, I mean,
 we've been very, very lucky
 that almost everyone
 has been coming back
 season after season,
and there is this real sense
that everyone involved,
that this was, uh,
this was special.
It's rare that you have a show,
 any show,
 where people
 don't lose interest, you know,
 by season four or five.
 But here, it's been building,
 and it's still building.
 When this thing opens
 in 2019,
it'll have been ten years
of our lives.
That's a long time.
ARYA STARK:
That's Jaime Lannister,
the queen's twin brother.
COSTER-WALDAU:  I was like
 a little puppy when I arrived.
 And coming to Belfast, just...
I learned how to walk
with pride and joy,
 and I'm moving
 from this experience
 as a better person.
 I'm gonna miss it.
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