
Probably perfect for the action role required for portraying Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen in Against The Ice, Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau played charismatic Jaime Lannister in HBO’s fantasy drama Game of Thrones, for which he received two Emmy Award nominations. 'Against The Ice' star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister in 'Game Of Thrones'. "It’s also a story of living under extreme pressure and circumstances, of constant struggle for survival, fighting off threats of extreme cold, lack of food, hungry polar bears and not least the frailty of the human mind." " Against The Ice is an intense exploration of two men, two opposites, trapped in an epic dangerous setting,’ says Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. As the days grow longer, their mental hold on reality starts to fade, breeding mistrust and paranoia, can they fight to stay alive? Battling extreme hunger, fatigue and a polar bear attack, they finally arrive to find their ship crushed in the ice and the camp abandoned. Leaving his ship behind, Mikkelsen treks across the ice with his young, inexperienced crew member Iver Iversen (Joe Cole).īut although they find proof that Greenland is a single island, returning to the ship is much harder than expected. The crew want to disprove the United States’ argument that Greenland is two different islands and stop their claim to North Eastern Greenland. 'Against The Ice' plot based on a true storyĪgainst The Ice is set in 1909, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau plays Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, who’s heading up Denmark’s Alabama Expedition.
