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🗓️ 28 July 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has become world-famous on the wildly popular Game of Thrones, but as you’ll learn, his seemingly overnight success has been more than twenty years in the making. (He costarred with Mick Jagger and a little-known Jude Law in Bent back in 1997.) Leonard and Jessie discover a hard-working, self-effacing actor with a great sense of humor and a ready supply of anecdotes about his experiences making movies around the globe.
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1:02.5 | Hi, everybody. |
1:03.5 | I'm Leonard Maltin. |
1:04.3 | And I'm Jesse Moulton. |
1:05.3 | You are listening to Maltin on Movies, and we are very pleased to have as our guest today, |
1:10.2 | a man who has become spectacularly |
1:13.5 | well-known all around the world, not because he's been in dozens of movies, which he has, |
1:21.6 | but because he's in this little series called Game of Thrones. I'm talking about Nikolai Costa Valdao, |
1:27.0 | and welcome. Thank you so much. Itai Costa Valdao. And welcome. |
1:27.9 | Thank you so much. It's great to be here. It's just so funny to me, you're yet another |
1:32.6 | example of the so-called overnight success. We really enjoy reading about people who are |
1:39.5 | either up and coming for their entire careers. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, I think, finally broke it two |
1:44.1 | years ago, |
1:45.0 | where they stopped doing articles of him saying, |
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