Following the demise of King Joffrey in last night's episode of Game Of Thrones, actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has admitted that he's going to miss the character.
Despite King Joffrey causing harm and heartache to many, the actor revealed that he felt sad when King Joffrey drew his last breath. Speaking to E! News, Coster-Waldau who plays the role of Joffrey's uncle and father, said:
"What I like about it is that at the very end you just see a little boy who is scared and dying and I think for all the hatred you've given Joffrey—he's a horrible little kid—you still have that, 'Oh, he's still a kid,' and I think they accomplished that really well.
"And the funny thing is he is going to be a missed character because you love to hate him!"
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is going to miss King Joffrey (Splash News)
The actor also revealed that knew of the purple wedding for "a long time", the actor, commented:
"I knew it was going to happen. I knew for a long time. I think that Alex Graves, the director...it was a very complicated episode, the wedding takes so much time and everything, it was a really difficult shoot and I think the way he solved it was just brilliant."
And whilst last night's episode may have been the last time we saw Joffrey, Coster-Waldau revealed that he had to shoot a scene with Jack Gleeson - who plays the role of King Joffrey - a month after they filmed his death scene.
He recalled: "The funny thing is we had a scene in episode one when he's standing in front of the statue, we shot that a month later and that was the last scene we did together. [Jack Gleeson] is such a lovely kid, so that was pretty sad, of course."
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