Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's New Chapter: Climate Optimist!
PEOPLE MAGAZINE
"You get to experience places that you've never gone to before," the actor tells PEOPLE of his new Bloomberg docuseries, 'An Optimist's Guide to the Planet.’
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau became famous across the globe as the dashing yet complicated Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones, but nowadays the actor is more concerned with the future of Earth than drama in the Seven Kingdoms.
"If you look just 50 years back at all these issues — gender equality, eliminating extreme hunger, access to education, LGBTQ rights, civil liberties — we are in a whole so much better today than we were 50 years ago," Coster-Waldau, 53, tells PEOPLE at the premiere of his new docuseries, An Optimist's Guide to the Planet, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Jan. 31. "And there's a lot of work to do, but we are doing so much better. Climate change, we're not. We have to do better but we can and we will."
That's the focus of his six-episode series, which premiered Thursday on Bloomberg Originals and Bloomberg TV and can be streamed on Bloomberg.com, YouTube and the Bloomberg app.
