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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Calls Original Game of Thrones Pilot ‘Unbelievably Bad’

April 11, 2019 | Posted by Jeffrey Harris
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During a recent appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden, Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau discussed the original, infamous pilot for the hit dark fantasy TV series. You can check out a clip of Coster-Waldau discussing the original pilot for the series below.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stated the cast recently got together to watch the original pilot. He stated, “There was this pilot that was — 95% was reshot [later].” He added, “And we sat down the original cast wit Dan [Weiss] and David [Benioff], the two creators, and they showed this thing for us, and it was unbelievably bad. It was absolutely amazing to see.”

He continued, “There’s no reason we’re sitting here talking about this today, no one should have picked that up. But there was one guy, Ricard Plepler, who was the CEO of HBO, who apparently was the only one who was like, ‘This is great! Let’s do it!’ And then we did it, and we reshot [the pilot]. It just goes to show you, you really — you never know.”

The hit series returns for its eighth and final season on April 14 on HBO.