A big Nordic pussy.
That's how Noah Taylor describes fellow Game of Thrones' star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau when quizzed about the Danish actor's claim the Australian dished out some real pain when filming the scene where the Kingslayer loses his sword hand.
Taylor plays Locke, who slices off Jaime Lannister's right hand in the hit TV series.
The props team made a huge knife for the 44-year-old to wield that had a gap in it so the Australian could whack it down on Coster-Waldau's arm without actually harming him.
But it required accuracy and, Coster-Waldau claimed recently, Taylor painfully missed his mark.
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Asked about those comments, Taylor was quick to quip to AAP: "Big Nordic pussy."
But it's clear both men are actually very fond of each other.
"It's like a knife with a big hole in the middle," Taylor said of the prop.
"So ideally the hole goes over the wrist ... but he (Coster-Waldau) is a trooper - and a lovely, lovely man."
The Dane, speaking in London in mid-February, further claimed Taylor missed his mark in another scene when Jaime falls off his horse into the mud before Locke beats him up.
The Australian was meant to kick him in the stomach but because it was muddy and the pair were rolling around "he kind of missed and hit my ribs," Coster-Waldau said.
Taylor tells AAP it definitely wasn't deliberate.
"You've got to understand with those shows, they are asking you to horse ride, sword fight, fight - all those sorts of things in mud, at night, in winter," he said.
"We're not trained stunt people so accidents happen.
"Obviously I'm not trying to injury anyone - that's the last thing you want to do."
Taylor started to say the incident hurt him more than Coster-Waldau.
"No, well I'm sure it hurt him more, actually, but it's a horrible feeling to hurt someone."
