Game Of Thrones Star Reacts ('Oh God') To That Episode 6 Dragon Reveal

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Sunday's Game of Thrones. 

Remember when we thought the worst thing a White Walker could do was turn a human into a scary, extremely dangerous, blue-eyed footsoldier of the dead? How quaint.

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Sunday's Game of Thrones (read full recap here) seemed to give the Night King's forces the ultimate weapon when it revealed that Daenerys' dragon Viserion — killed by a frozen spear thrown by the undead head honcho himself during the battle at Eastwatch — had been turned into a wight.

A really gigantic, flying, even-more-lethal-than-normal wight.

Jaime Lannister wasn't even in the hour, but that didn't stop Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from opining on the herculean twist when TVLine chatted with him last week. Read on for his take on the zombie dragon, and what it might mean for — among other things — the Kingslayer's call times in the future.

TVLINE | The white walker dragon is the craziest thing I have seen on this show. When you first found out about it, what was your reaction?

I was like, "Oh god, does that mean that we're all going to turn into white walkers?" Because that's a lot of time in makeup every morning. That was my first thought.

TVLINE | It feels like the kind of development that could take the show to another level, for lack of a better way to put it.

[Laughs] I stopped speculating a long time ago. I don't know. I haven't seen it. I can't wait to watch that bit. I read it and I was like, "Holy... woah! That's crazy!" And seriously, I was like, "God, I don't want to be a white walker, because I don't want to walk around like a zombie." But who knows? It might be the last six episodes will just be [makes zombie-like groan]. [Showrunners] Dan [Weiss] and David [Benioff] could do that and just enjoy making us all be like that. "Yeah, today you're going to be zombies, and that's going to happen for the next 250 shooting days." [Laughs]