--- title: Game of Thrones: Jaime Actor on Melting Ice Facebook Video description: Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was nervous about the way fans would respond to the show's season seven premiere date announcement. canonical: https://time.com/4712571/game-of-thrones-cast-on-ice-video/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-24T19:14:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:56:50.500Z og:title: Game of Thrones Star Knows You'll Never Quit the Show og:description: Apparently Game of Thrones fans aren't easily fazed og:url: https://time.com/4712571/game-of-thrones-cast-on-ice-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35b57e5b83ad81d9/698895dda988caf2106b8125/game-of-thrones-season6-ep-7-04.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-season6-ep-7-04 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Game of Thrones Star Knows You'll Never Quit the Show twitter:description: Apparently Game of Thrones fans aren't easily fazed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35b57e5b83ad81d9/698895dda988caf2106b8125/game-of-thrones-season6-ep-7-04.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Game of Thrones_ Star Explains How That Melting Ice Video Was Basically Like a New Episode > Sponsored content. 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Game of Thrones fans aren't easily fazed_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 24, 2017 7:14 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 24, 2017 7:14 PM UTC When [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4429346/game-of-thrones-season-7-cast-news/)revealed its [season seven](http://time.com/4697430/game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-date-teaser-trailer-analysis/) premiere date with a _lengthy_ [Facebook Live video](https://www.facebook.com/pg/GameOfThrones/videos/?ref=page%5Finternal) of [fire melting a block of ice](http://time.com/4697244/game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-date-reveal-ice-fire/), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau — who plays Jaime Lannister — was nervous about the way fans would respond. During a recent interview with the [_Daily Beast_](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/24/nikolaj-coster-waldau-on-game-of-thrones-that-cersei-look-and-his-darkest-role-yet.html), the 46-year-old actor reflected on his personal reaction to the [technical difficulty-plagued announcement](http://www.businessinsider.com/game-of-thrones-season-7-ice-video-facebook-hbo-2017-3). “I spoke to \[showrunners\] Dan \[Weiss\] and David \[Benioff\] about that and they were like, ‘Oh god… That’s embarrassing.’ Everyone was like, ‘What’s going to happen? What’s going to happen?! It’s melting! It crashed! Oh my god!’ It’s like, just walk away… just walk away. It’s just a date!” However, after considering everything the show’s viewers have bounced back from in the past, he realized he was worried for no reason. “You know, I was actually thinking, ‘Is there going to be a backlash and people will think, “F—k you guys for that!”?’ But that’s really happened with every time the show kills off a major character: ‘Never again! F—k you! I’m never going to watch this show!’ And, you know, they keep coming back.” _Game of Thrones_ returns to HBO on July 16, 2017. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4712571/game-of-thrones-cast-on-ice-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4712571/game-of-thrones-cast-on-ice-video/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Star Explains How That Melting Ice Video Was Basically Like a New Episode","datePublished":"2017-03-24T19:14:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:50.500Z","description":"Game of Thrones fans aren't easily fazed","url":"https://time.com/4712571/game-of-thrones-cast-on-ice-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35b57e5b83ad81d9/698895dda988caf2106b8125/game-of-thrones-season6-ep-7-04.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35b57e5b83ad81d9/698895dda988caf2106b8125/game-of-thrones-season6-ep-7-04.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"game-of-thrones-season6-ep-7-04","caption":"Jerome Flynn (Bronn) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) in Game of Thrones.","creditText":"Helen Sloan—HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4712571/game-of-thrones-cast-on-ice-video/","name":"Game of Thrones Star Explains How That Melting Ice Video Was Basically Like a New Episode"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"Game of Thrones fans aren't easily fazed","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4712571/game-of-thrones-cast-on-ice-video/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4712571/game-of-thrones-cast-on-ice-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```