HBO's Strategy To Avoid "Game Of Thrones" Leaks Sounds Like A Nightmare For The Actors

This sounds like an actor's nightmare.

Game of Thrones had a rough Season 7 in terms of avoiding spoilers and leaks.

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Hackers stole scripts and documents from HBO during the season, and in unrelated incidents, unaired episodes leaked early as well.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau — aka Jaime Lannister — revealed in an interview on the Swedish show Skavlan that the HBO series is taking SERIOUS steps to avoid any leaks for the upcoming final season.

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"We’re not even going to get the script," Coster-Waldau said, adding that the actors will instead be fed lines through earpieces as they shoot scenes.

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Additionally, actors will only learn and shoot their scenes one at a time, without knowing the events of the rest of the episode.

Rumors surfaced that HBO might even shoot two different endings to the series in order to prevent spoilers, but Coster-Waldau expressed doubt about that rumor in a previous interview.

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"You’re not going to waste $100,000 a day to shoot something you’re not going to use," he said. "It’s not going to happen."

However, feeding actors lines without delivering them a script of any kind would be an unprecedented approach.

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We'll find out how well it works as we go through our long, long wait for Season 8.

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