He has a rugged physicality that’s served him well in movies like Kingdom of Heaven, Black Hawk Down and even Wimbledon, but Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (the “j” is pronounced as an “i”) is an actor still probably best known by face, and not name. That could be changing, though, as the Danish-born actor has a plum role on HBO’s zeitgeist smash Game of Thrones and a meaty part in Tom Cruise’s next film. His latest movie is the deliciously twisted dark crime comedy Headhunters, a Norwegian import that centers on a corporate recruiter (Aksel Hennie) who also moonlights as an art thief in order to pay for his lavish lifestyle, and finds his double life compromised when he crosses paths with Coster-Waldau’s character, a disgraced CEO who’s more than he seems. I recently had a chance to talk to Coster-Waldau one-on-one, about his movie, cinema’s greatest shit-centric scene since Trainspotting, acting in different languages, and what he can’t say about Oblivion, that Cruise film. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the full, fun read.