--- title: Jamie Lannister Talks Game of Thrones Theories on Kimmel description: All your theories about how Game of Thrones ends are wrong. canonical: https://time.com/5567402/jamies-lannister-game-of-thrones-theories/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-10T16:07:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:35.040Z og:title: This is Jamie's Lannister's Favorite Game of Thrones Theory og:description: All your theories about how Game of Thrones ends are wrong og:url: https://time.com/5567402/jamies-lannister-game-of-thrones-theories/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0bc3a2a191c791a/6989480a457a52c059d60d67/jamielannisteronkimmel.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1252 og:image:height: 704 og:image:alt: JamieLannisteronKimmel og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This is Jamie's Lannister's Favorite Game of Thrones Theory twitter:description: All your theories about how Game of Thrones ends are wrong twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0bc3a2a191c791a/6989480a457a52c059d60d67/jamielannisteronkimmel.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jamie Lannister Has Plenty to Say About the Most Popular _Game of Thrones_ Theories > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 10, 2019 4:07 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 10, 2019 4:07 PM UTC Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has read your fan theories about how _Game of Thrones_ ends, but says no one has come close to the true ending yet. Coster-Waldau who plays [Jaime Lannister](http://time.com/4920396/game-of-thrones-jaime-lannister-kingslayer-night-king/) on the HBO series stopped by _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ on Tuesday night as part of the ongoing media blitz before the show’s [eighth and final season](http://time.com/4913247/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-date/) kicks off on HBO on Sunday night. Host Jimmy Kimmel plied him with fan theories about how the show will end. One popular theory is that Jaime will kill [Cersei](http://time.com/4918867/game-of-thrones-jaime-cersei-lannister/), his sister and baby mama who currently sits on Westeros’ Iron Throne. “That’s a theory,” the actor replied. “It makes sense though, if you think about it.” Another is that Arya Stark will use her unique set of skills to take on Jaime’s face and kill Cersei herself. “That would be cool, wouldn’t it?” he said in an impressive non-answer. When Coster-Waldau was asked whether Jon Snow would become the Night King, he appeared baffled, simply asking, “How?” While his response to that particular theory makes it seem less likely, never forget Coster-Waldau is an excellent actor who is occasionally paid to look baffled. Coster-Waldau has pored over some fan theories, but told Kimmel, “I’ve never read anyone who got the whole thing.” As for the real ending, even Coster-Waldau didn’t see it coming. “When I read it the first time I was blown away,” he said. “I wrote Dan and David, the two creators, and I was like, ‘I really don’t know how you did it, but I can’t imagine a better way of ending the show.’” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5567402/jamies-lannister-game-of-thrones-theories/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5567402/jamies-lannister-game-of-thrones-theories/"},"headline":"Jamie Lannister Has Plenty to Say About the Most Popular Game of Thrones Theories","datePublished":"2019-04-10T16:07:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:35.040Z","description":"All your theories about how Game of Thrones ends are wrong","url":"https://time.com/5567402/jamies-lannister-game-of-thrones-theories/","keywords":["Newsfeed","game of thrones","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0bc3a2a191c791a/6989480a457a52c059d60d67/jamielannisteronkimmel.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0bc3a2a191c791a/6989480a457a52c059d60d67/jamielannisteronkimmel.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"JamieLannisteronKimmel","caption":"Jamie Lannister on Kimmel","creditText":"","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/5567402/jamies-lannister-game-of-thrones-theories/","name":"Jamie Lannister Has Plenty to Say About the Most Popular Game of Thrones Theories"}}]}] ```