NIKOLAJ
COSTER-WALDAU on Dany in 2013 (!): “There’s also something about that type of power
that Daenerys has. Most people believe she’s doing the right thing, but she’s
burning people alive. She’s got a chip on her shoulder. I don’t want her to
come across the Narrow Sea. She’s going
to burn thousands and thousands and thousands of people and have that
self-righteous smirk on her face the whole time.” (Source)
In 2017: “How
do you think they’re going to react when [Jon] finds out that he’s actually the
rightful heir to the Iron Throne? I mean, he’s now a threat to [Daenerys]. He’s
first in line now. The whole thing she built her life on is now a lie. She
doesn’t seem that stable to me, that girl.” (Source)
And in 2018 on the ending
of Game of Thrones: “I … 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 one to nine [meaning
season 8] and it makes sense.“ (Source)
Bonus:
Emilia Clarke in her Vanity Fair interview of this year: “[Daenerys is] doing
all this weird shit. You’ll know what I mean when you see it.” + [on her
character’s final on-screen moments]: “It fucked me up. Knowing that is going
to be a lasting flavor in someone’s mouth of what Daenerys is …” (Source)
To sum it up: Nikolaj is satisfied with the ending of GoT which means 1. Dany is not on the throne and likely his character assessment of her has been right all along and 2. he was right when he doubted that the parentage reveal was going to go over well with Dany.
I fear for the people who still think that Dany/Jon is going to be a happy ever-after. Nikolaj has seen Dark!Dany
coming for a long time AND he’s satisfied with the ending. That should give the
fans who still think she’s a heroine some pause. And the line about the “weird
shit” Dany is doing according to Emilia? That sounds really ominous to me…
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