![]() “I never thought I would be in a show with dragons,” he said. He took the sweatshirt off.Īs David Benioff, a co-creator, once told Details, “He’s supposed to be the best-looking man in Westeros.” And Coster-Waldau - rangy, blond, with impeccable bone structure and a rugged broken nose - really was. Though for Coster-Waldau, who spent much of last spring filming the Netflix movie “Against the Ice” in Greenland and Iceland, where temperatures dipped to 20 below, this registered as balmy. Under gunmetal skies, it felt much colder. They have proper boots.” He had not brought cleats, so he made do with sneakers, Adidas track pants, a sweatshirt, T-shirt printed with the logo for his production company, Ill Kippers. Was he nervous? “I’m not,” Coster-Waldau said. “Reynaldo?” he said, clocking a teammate’s jersey. “I still play, I just don’t run as much anymore,” he said, as he watched the other players, 16 men and one woman - from Albania, Bosnia, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Mexico - change into cleats and game wear. ![]() ![]() Coster-Waldau, an actor best known for “Game of Thrones” and an enthusiastic soccer player since childhood, had signed up for a nine-against-nine pickup game on an app called Just Play. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This was on a recent Tuesday afternoon, on a soccer field at Sara D. “Thirty years ago, I would have had it,” he said, shaking off the goal as he jogged back toward midfield. NEW YORK - The soccer ball arced into the air and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ran after it, loping down the artificial turf toward his team’s goal. ![]()
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