Game of Thrones season 6: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau discusses Jaime and Brienne's latent 'attraction'

'The truth is that they've never, you know...'

** Spoilers for Game of Thrones season six episode eight **

While Arya’s final scenes may have been slightly disappointing, there was no question over Jaime Lannister’s interactions with Brienne and Edmure, both of which were episode highlights.

Fans weren’t the only ones to note the sexual tension between the Brienne and Jaime; Bronn was quite blunt about the situation when talking outside the tent with Pod. In an interview with IGN, actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau spoke about the relationship.

“They're so much more alike than they could imagine,” he told the publication. “They, in many ways I think, share fundamental beliefs and are both very honourable and alike in the way that they are loyal to the people they love and they will do anything to help and protect the people they love.

“The later scenes, you constantly feel this subtext of a weird fondness and attraction between them that they never act on, and could never act on. It's intriguing. You kind of go, ‘Why can't you just…?’"

Speaking of the scene inside the tent specifically, he added: “The subtext is so clear that they're happy to see each other, but they don't know how to recognise that. The truth is that they've never, you know... Yes, Jaime's been with his sister his whole life and that's the love he knows, and God knows that's a version of it.

“Brienne, she loved Renly I think, but they would never recognise the thing that there is between them because it's just beyond imagination -- or at least they would never allow themselves to go to that place.”

While it sounds like Jaime and Brienne may never happen, there are still fans hoping Tormund will end up with the Warrior of Tarth.

In the same interview, Coster-Waldau also spoke about what’s next for Jaime: “He has to get back. I think that's the whole focus. He knows his sister and Tommen are extremely vulnerable. This whole religious uprising, no one saw that coming and it's just taken over everything. He understands how dangerous a situation it is, and he knows that Cersei is on trial very shortly.

“Even though the idea is, of course, that [he] would think she's safe with the Mountain fighting for it, he's seen enough of the High Sparrow not to trust him. [laughs] So I think he wants to get back.”

Meanwhile, commenting on the same episode, Blackfish actor Clive Russell discussed why the show’s iteration of the character is different to in the books.