Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Addressed How Online Hate Impacted The Game Of Thrones Cast

The final season of Game of Thrones was a rough one for several diehard fans of the series. So rough, case in point, that several viewers turned to Twitter right following the finale to bash the season's fast pace and surprise ending, among other things. At one point, the criticism got so aggressive that some fans congregated a change.Org petition calling for the showrunners to redo the entirety of Season 8. Although what those fans might not directly have believed, although, is that their negativity online would severely impact those who worked hard on set day-to-day — something Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who played Jaime Lannister, discussed about at this weekend's Con of Thrones fan event (July 12-14) in Nashville, Tennessee.


While in one panel, Coster-Waldau discussed about the intensity of the reactions to Season 8, and why some people's hateful words really furious members of the cast. "Every season has been intense in terms of the eye and discussion, nevertheless it was extraordinarily intense for a final season," he mentioned, according to HuffPost. "And we have this WhatsApp categorize, the actors, and I saw some people getting a little bit irritated because some of the stuff is vicious, and in the event you make the mistake of begin reading all that shit, because in case you guys get really irritated about something — I'm sure you did, some of ― and you write to each other and go, 'Fucking assholes. This is so not what would happen! They ruined, they butchered George's world!' It's just fun for you, nevertheless certainly some got a little bit upset."


And if they weren't feeling particularly furious over the onslaught of negative reactions from the GoT fanbase, they were feeling confused. After all, the third episode of the season, "The Long Night," took a whopping 55 nights to film. And immediately after putting in that much dedication, it was disappointing for the actors to be able to see that so several fans had a supply with the way everything turned out. "There was that sort of weird feeling of, 'What the hell? We worked so hard,'" the actor mentioned. "I'm not asking anyone to feel sorry, by the way. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying how it was to get through that whole thing."


Nevertheless as hard as it was for the actors, it was probably even harder for David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the show's creators. Why? Because several fans on social media felt as though they lost interest in the show and didn't put much thought into how they were going to wrap everything up. Although, Coster-Waldau shut off this theory at another panel, saying, "For anyone to imagine or to think that the two creators of the show are not the most enthusiastic, the greatest, the most invested of all, and to for a second think that they didn't spend the last 10 years thinking about how they were going to end it is sort of foolish. ... Along with know that they also read the comments. And it also is, although you sit on your own and go, 'Fucking dumb writers. Assholes.' They really — like each person on Game of Thrones, almost every person and there really are thousands — we worked our asses off to prepare the perfect show we may for the ending."


Fortunately, there were several fans at the convention who really admired how the series ended — a suggestion that was sadly overshadowed by critics on social media. And whenever one fan expressed to Coster-Waldau just how much the show meant to them over the years, he responded by explaining how badly he wished Benioff and Weiss were there to hear it — especially since they've been on the deriving end of so much hate since the season aired. "I just wish Dan and David would be here to hear this," he mentioned. "To understand that people really love the show, that suddenly they're not the most hated people in the world. I mean, because that's how @they could ― I know how they feel."