'Game of Thrones' Star Hit with Bad Legal News
by EG
Jaime Lannister is in the middle of a difficult political situation on Game of Thrones, and the actor who plays him is in the middle of a difficult legal conundrum in real life. Read on for details of the situation.
Via Deadline.
Unlike Game of Thrones itself, the legal battle between Emmy nominee Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and his former manager over commissions and contracts doesn’t look to be ending soon, despite the recent $2 million ruling by an arbitrator who found in favor of the actor’s ex-reps.
Coster-Waldau, who plays Kingslayer Jaime Lannister, and his attorney were handed a detailed interim decision late last month (read it here) telling him to pony up “$1,752,564.55 plus pre-judgment interest at 10% per annum.” Seasoned arbitrator Henry J. Silberberg on August 22 also ordered the actor to make biannual payments on his now-$1,066,667-per-episode GOT earnings and any other cash that evolved out of Jill Littman’s handling of his career up until 2015.
Heading into the 70th Primetime Emmys on September 17 with an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series nomination, Coster-Waldau got a Final Award on Tuesday (read it here) that also drilled in with a specific $224,720 in interest plus the more than $1.7 million for breach of contract and now various legal fees – which, along with the amounts the actor was paid for an Apple ad and more, are laid out in the Interim Award.
Add to that the long road this lawsuit has traveled and the eighth and final season of the HBO blockbuster based on George R.R. Martin’s books set to premiere next year, and you’d think that it would be time for the WME-repped actor to cut his losses and move on.
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