The actor adds that when he said the line “I don’t believe you anymore”, he was trying to convey one thing: that not only has Jaime finally recognised Cersei’s true colours, he actually doesn’t love her anymore. Like, at all.

“My subjects as an actor was ‘This is it. I don’t believe in you anymore. I don’t believe in this, you and me. I don’t love you anymore’,” he says. “That’s how I played it.”

Coster-Waldau says that he doesn’t yet know if his interpretation of Jaime’s words will be backed up by storylines in season eight, but as far as he’s concerned, his character is over being manipulated by his sister.

“I’ve done that before and then you find out that’s not what they [the screenwriters] intended, but, you know, that was kind of my intention that that was it,” he says. “She’s obviously always going to be a huge part of him and there won’t be a day where he won’t be thinking of Cersei… [But] I think the whole ‘I’m in love with you’ thing is not really there – it’s gone.”

Given that Cersei has got used to being able to control Jaime for seven seasons – and that she is, as Coster-Waldau says, “a crazy monster” – we’re willing to bet that she won’t take her brother’s defection lying down. Roll on season eight…

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau on the scene that proved Jaime no longer loves Cersei