“Call me Hairy Styles.”
Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldeau has admitted that his character – Jaime Lannister – will be looking very different when the series returns.
The HBO fantasy series is currently filming their eighth and final season, which is due to hit screens some time in 2019.
And while there’s already been some spoilers as to what fans can expect when it does return, it looks like one of the show’s most…dividing characters will be sporting a different look when the show returns.
When the series first began, fans began to compare Jaime Lannister’s look to Prince Charming in Shrek 3.
The resemblance is uncanny, really.
Then, after two seasons of being carted around by Robb Stark’s men, Jamie got a new look.
And for the people who thought he looked a little too close to a Dreamworks character, all was right in the Westerosi world.
It was a Jaime that seemingly wanted to do good. Or at least tried to do the right thing most of the time.
And now Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – who plays Jaime, the younger of the Lannister twins – has revealed he’s switching up his look once again.
He told Shortlist:
“I’m shooting the last season of Thrones. Generally speaking, I’m not crazy-hairy, but I have a full beard. Call me Hairy Styles.”
The seventh season finale saw Jamie abandon King’s Landing after finding out his sister’s real plans for the impending war with the Army of the Dead.
As he leaves the Westerosi capital, snow begins to fall as he begins the journey North.
Coster-Waldau said that his character had previously been “due” a makeover, as there was a big change in his personality.
But, he insisted, the ‘Prince Charming’ hair was all his own.
He added:
“That was no wig, it was all my hair! But there are a lot of wigs in the show, I’ll give you that.
“[Jamie] was due a haircut. Especially after spending two seasons dragged through the mud.
“There was a big change in the character, so a haircut is a way to signal that.”
