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game of thrones - Why did 'The Mountain' hesitate?


Spoilers from the Season 7 finale of Game of Thrones, "The Dragon and the Wolf".


In one of the final scenes, Jaime and Cersei are discussing Jaime's future with them, at which point



Cersei nods her head, signaling the kill order for 'The Mountain', yet 'The Mountain' pulled out his sword but why didn't he kill Jaime?




Answer




Jaime had an inkling that Cersei wouldn't actually kill him


Our good mate Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (the actor who portrays Jaime) breaks this down for us nicely in a recent interview with Leigh Blickley on HuffingtonPost:



[Leigh] Not going to lie, I thought this might have been your demise. The Mountain was ready to kill you! But you called her bluff.


[Nikolaj] Cersei had the chance with both her brothers to kill them and she was threatening to do so, but both times she eased off on the trigger. I get that with Tyrion she was setting him up for failure ― making him believe that he was the hero of the day, that he negotiated this amazing support from the Lannister army and what a wonderful thing he did. So that makes sense. For Jaime, I would think he would think there was part of her that still understands that he really is the last person that she has. That is the truth; that must resonate somewhere inside her. That would help. Or maybe the Mountain is just so thick that he didn’t get the eye signal. Maybe there’s a scene right after where she goes, “Why the fuck didn’t you kill him?! I gave you the signal!” I don’t know. Who knows. We’ll never know because that scene isn’t there, but that might be the case.
-HuffingtonPost, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Breaks Down That Huge Jaime Moment On 'Game Of Thrones'.



The caveat is that this is the actor's own interpretation of the scene, but that goes to show that the writers haven't told Nikolaj the actual reason for this. That's not to say that one doesn't exist, however, this is all the insight we have at this moment.


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