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

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau hit James Corden‘s couch on The Late Show alongside Sara Bareilles on Wednesday (April 10) and revealed that that the original Game of Thrones cast recently sat down to watch it’s 2009 pilot that never say the light of day.

“There was this pilot that was — 95% was reshot [later],” the 48-year-old actor admitted. “And we sat down, the original cast with Dan and David — the two creators — and they showed this thing to us and it was unbelievably bad. It was absolutely amazing to see.”

Nikolaj said the original episode was so terrible that “there’s no reason we’re sitting here talking about this today, no one should have picked that up.”

“But there was one guy, Richard Plepler, who was the CEO of HBO, who was like apparently the only one who went like, ‘This is great! Let’s do it!’ And then we did it, and we reshot,” he added. “But it just goes to so you, you really, you never know.”

Game of Thrones Season 8 premieres Sunday at 9/8c on HBO!

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