Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau joins the cast of The Last Thing He Told Me opposite Jennifer Garner. The Last Thing He Told Me is based on the New York Times bestselling mystery novel of the same name by Laura Dave. Dave will serve as co-creator of the limited series along with Josh Singer, the Academy Award-winning writer of SpotlightThe Last Thing He Told Me was also featured in the Reese Witherspoon Book Club before being optioned by her production company, Hello Sunshine, which will now see Witherspoon serve as an executive producer on the series.

As reported by Deadline, Coster-Waldau has joined the cast of The Last Thing He Told Me as the male lead alongside Garner and Angourie Rice. Olivia Newman, director of Where the Crawdads Sing, another bestseller adapted to the screen through Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine, is set to helm the miniseries. The plot of the show centers on Hannah (Garner) and her sixteen-year-old stepdaughter (Rice) as they form an unexpected relationship while searching for Owen (Coster-Waldau), the family patriarch who mysteriously disappeared.

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Most audiences will recognize Coster-Waldau from his two-time Emmy nominated performance as Jamie Lannister on HBO's mega-hit Game of Thrones. Following the Game of Thrones finale in 2019, his acting career has mainly focused on films like The Silencing and Against the Ice, the latter of which he co-wrote and produced. Coster-Waldau was also a producer on the Academy Award-nominated documentary Flee. As for The Last Thing He Told Me, the series is set to stream exclusively on Apple TV+, though it currently doesn't have a release date. Further details on The Last Thing He Told Me miniseries will be forthcoming as the project develops.

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Source: Deadline