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"Game of Thrones" has not always been the global phenomenon that it is today.
Like many series, "Game of Thrones" started as a single pilot that was pitched to a range of networks in the hope that one of them would pick it up.
It may seem surprising to some, but it's no secret that the show's pilot was a total trainwreck.
In an episode of the podcast "Scriptnotes," the show's co-creator David Benioff said that watching the pilot was "one of the most painful experiences" of his life.
Read more: The original 'Game Of Thrones' pilot was a total trainwreck
Fortunately, the pilot never saw the light of day. So much of it had been rehearsed and reproduced that a different director was up and running.
However, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (who plays Jaime Lannister) said "The Late Late Show with James Corden" on Wednesday.
"It was unbelievably bad," Coster-Waldau said.
"It was actually amazing and there was no reason we were not going to pick that up."
Luckily, someone did.
Coster-Waldau said that one guy, Richard Pleper the CEO of HBO, was like: "This is great! Let's do it."
The rest, as they say, is history.
Watch Coster-Waldau tell the story below:
The eighth and final season of "Game of Thrones" premieres this Sunday at 9 pm ET on HBO.
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