--- title: Jaime Lannister and Lin-Manuel Miranda Are Friends IRL description: In what might be the bromance of two of the most intense fandoms, Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster Waldau has befriended Lin-Manuel Miranda. canonical: https://time.com/4905009/jaime-lannister-lin-manuel-miranda-bromance/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-17T19:18:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:35.578Z og:title: Is Jaime Lannister + Lin-Manuel Miranda the Bromance We Need? og:description: HAM 4 GoT og:url: https://time.com/4905009/jaime-lannister-lin-manuel-miranda-bromance/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03a1e70dc9029592/6988da1e97cdffa3026b2128/jaime-lannister-lin-manuel-miranda-bromance.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1930 og:image:height: 1086 og:image:alt: Jaime-Lannister-Lin-Manuel-Miranda-bromance og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Is Jaime Lannister + Lin-Manuel Miranda the Bromance We Need? twitter:description: HAM 4 GoT twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03a1e70dc9029592/6988da1e97cdffa3026b2128/jaime-lannister-lin-manuel-miranda-bromance.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Are Jaime Lannister and Lin-Manuel Miranda Having the Bromance We Never Knew We Needed? > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 17, 2017 7:18 PM UTC  Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 17, 2017 7:18 PM UTC In what might be the [bromance](http://time.com/4814955/frank-ocean-brad-pitt-bromance/) of two of entertainment’s most intense fandoms, Jaime Lannister actor [_Game of Thrones_‘ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau](http://time.com/game-of-thrones-2017/) and [Lin-Manuel Miranda](http://time.com/4300102/lin-manuel-miranda-time-100-video/) have befriended one another in a bromance that has already spawned some witty Twitter repartee and a piggyback ride on _The Late Late Show with James Corden_. On the Wednesday night episode of _The Late Late Show_, Coster-Waldau and Miranda discussed the possibility of a _Game of Thrones_ musical, but more importantly Coster-Waldau gave Miranda a ride on his shoulders that provided the photo opportunity that we never knew we needed: Jaime Lannister and “Alexander Hamilton” chopping it up together as old chums do. > [](https://twitter.com/jen%5Fsisley/status/897809556646113281) Miranda had a hilarious response to their piggyback moment. > [](https://twitter.com/Lin%5FManuel/status/897810373394350080) And Coster-Waldau also responded in kind. > [](https://twitter.com/nikolajcw/status/897819521351786498) Jaime Lannister and Alexander Hamilton is the bromance we not only need, but deserve. > [](https://twitter.com/Lin%5FManuel/status/897819870506516480) Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4905009/jaime-lannister-lin-manuel-miranda-bromance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4905009/jaime-lannister-lin-manuel-miranda-bromance/"},"headline":"Are Jaime Lannister and Lin-Manuel Miranda Having the Bromance We Never Knew We Needed?","datePublished":"2017-08-17T19:18:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:35.578Z","description":"HAM 4 GoT","url":"https://time.com/4905009/jaime-lannister-lin-manuel-miranda-bromance/","keywords":["Newsfeed","game of thrones","celebrities","viral","Hamilton","james corden","lin-manuel miranda"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03a1e70dc9029592/6988da1e97cdffa3026b2128/jaime-lannister-lin-manuel-miranda-bromance.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03a1e70dc9029592/6988da1e97cdffa3026b2128/jaime-lannister-lin-manuel-miranda-bromance.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jaime-Lannister-Lin-Manuel-Miranda-bromance","caption":"","creditText":"Getty Images","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/4905009/jaime-lannister-lin-manuel-miranda-bromance/","name":"Are Jaime Lannister and Lin-Manuel Miranda Having the Bromance We Never Knew We Needed?"}}]}] ```