With Game Of Thrones sweeping all before it and Scandinavian thriller Headhunters landing soon, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is on the verge of a well-deserved breakthrough. After all, anyone who looks *that *much like Jaime Lannister deserves to have an oxen perpetually roasting on the spit of life.
There are precious few swords or sandles in his next major undertaking, though - unless sci-fi epic **Oblivion **has some major surprises in store for us. Tron Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski is already hard at work creating a post-apocalyptic world in which aliens lurk menacingly and Tom Cruise's solder, Jack, is charged with repairing the drones that protect our planet.
Coster-Waldau, who plays veteran weapons expert Sykes in the movie, explained** **his character's dynamic with Cruise's jaded trooper in intriguing terms when **Empire **caught up with him. "It's a Tom Cruise movie for sure; I don't think there's a scene without him. I play a soldier who's not a big fan of Tom's character. He's seen a lot of horrible things and there's a lot of boiled-up anger in him."
So is he on the side of the angels or the bugs? "I think Tom's character would probably described my character as a bad guy, but I don't think the audience would..."
Watch this space for more on a movie - or pick up a copy of the new Empire magazine for more from Coster-Waldau. **Oblivion **is current pencilled into Universal's diary for April 19, 2013. With Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough and Morgan Freeman also on board, it's already plenty intriguing.