Jaime Lannister's definitive moment comes when his right hand is forcefully lopped off. This meant Nikolaj would have a prosthetic arm protruding out of his own forearm to create the illusion, but he still turned to real life amputees to gain a knowledge of what it's like to live without a limb. He told Vulture: "There was a lot of thought going into it, what it means. Its not that uncommon you see soldiers coming home from deployment whove left limbs behind on the battlefield and Ive been trying to read about people whove experienced this."