Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister on HBO's Game of Thrones, received a big raise for the final season of the blockbuster series. According to court documents for a lawsuit involving Coster-Waldau and his former manager, Jill Littman, Coster-Waldau made $1,066,667 per episode for Season 8. The documents confirm Coster-Waldau appears in all six episodes of the final season (previous reports indicated he would only appear in four).

The 48-year-old Danish actor also appeared in each of the seven episodes of the last season, for which he received $942,857 per episode. This contradicts earlier estimates which stated each of Game of Thrones' stars receive approximately $500,000 per episode. Coster-Waldau also received a $1.5 million advance of the show's profits.

In August, the actor shared with The Huffington Post why he is satisfied with the show's ending.

“I wrote the writers when I finished reading and just said, ‘I don’t think you could’ve done a better job at finishing this story,’” he said. “To me, it was very satisfying but also very surprising and all the things that I was hoping for. It still made sense. It wasn’t like one of those where the killer is suddenly revealed in the last act and you go, 'Oh! I didn’t see that coming.' Here, they’ve done a really, really good job.”



HBO released the following preview of what fans can expect to see when the show returns in early 2019.



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Correction: A previous version of this article said Coster-Waldau would only appear in four episodes of Game of Thrones' final season. He will actually appear in all six, and this article has been updated with this information.

Eileen Reslen I’m Eileen, the digital news reporter at Hearst Digital Media.

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