Nikolaj Coster-Waldau likes playing people who keep secrets. The 52-year-old Danish actor, who rose to fame for his portrayal of regicidal bad boy Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones, says, “I think it’s interesting, the whole question of ‘Can you be truthful and sincere, honest with your emotions [and keep secrets]. And then the other question is: is it even possible to be 100 per cent transparent with a partner?”
Coster-Waldau is testing this out in a new series in The Last Thing He Told Me, an Apple TV+ show based on the bestselling book about a married couple torn apart by some whopping great skeletons in the husband’s closet. Coster-Waldau plays smooth talking family man and tech finance bro Owen, who goes missing at the end of the first episode and it’s up to his wife and daughter, Hannah and Bailey (Jennifer Garner and Angourie Rice), to piece it all together.
