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During opening pleasantries for a Zoom interview with an actor, a reporter will often learn that the person they are interviewing is at their office in Los Angeles; a hotel in Manhattan, where the press junket is taking place; or, sometimes, in a car being shuttled to an airport.
Speaking with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, the actor most famous for playing Jamie Lannister on Game of Thrones, may be the first time in my experience that the innocuous question of, “Where are you right now?” was answered with, “I’m in Nuuk, Greenland.”
The Danish actor’s wife is from Greenland, “which is why we have a house here,” he tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. He picks up his computer to point its camera towards the window, revealing a vista of azure-blue water and lush hills rising in the distance that rendered me dumbstruck. “Well, damn,” I say. “If it’s any consolation, it is really, really cold,” he replies.