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" Everyone's expectation of New York is so big, and then you go, 'Oh, it really is like no other place on Earth!' "
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
You
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Earth
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" What's great about 'Game of Thrones' is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you'll go, 'Oh my God, horrible', and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature. "
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" You have to be sharp when the camera's rolling. I want to be totally unselfconscious, like a child playing. I do as much prep as possible so I can lose myself for those seconds. "
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