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  ==TV adaptation==
  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau plays the role of Jaime Lannister in the television series.
  Jaime is portrayed by Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the HBO adaptation ''Game of Thrones''. His casting was announced on August 20, 2009.
  In October 2014, Coster-Waldau and several other key cast members, all contracted for six seasons of the series, renegotiated their deals to include a potential seventh season and salary increases for seasons five, six, and seven. ''The Hollywood Reporter'' called the raises "huge", noting that the deal would make the performers "among the highest-paid actors on cable TV". ''Deadline Hollywood'' put the number for season five at "close to  an episode" for each actor, and ''The Hollywood Reporter'' wrote in June 2016 that the performers would each be paid "upward of  per episode" for seasons seven and the potential eight. In 2017, he became one of the highest paid actors on television and will earn £2million per episode for the show.
  Matt Fowler of IGN noted in 2013 that "the people who do seem to get redemption arcs on this show are the villains". Over the course of the first three seasons, the series has transitioned Jaime from an obvious villain to an antihero of sorts. Eric Dodds of ''Time'' wrote that Jaime had become "a complex, bizarrely likable character". Andrew Romano of ''The Daily Beast'' explained:
  Fowler wrote that Jaime's adventure with Brienne was "the best storyline of the season" in  Season 3, aside from the Red Wedding.
  Jaime's apparent rape of Cersei in the fourth season episode "Breaker of Chains" created controversy among fans and journalists, who debated the show's depiction of sexual violence against women as well as Jaime's character development.  The showrunners never commented on what their intention with the scene actually was.  The cast members involved initially gave only vague comments, but after the fourth season was released on Blu-ray and the showrunners avoided making any comment about the scene in it (it is conspicuously the only episode which has no commentary track), both Coster-Waldau and Headey publicly stated that the scene was never intended to portray rape at all - they were given no instructions to this effect (such as in the script) nor did they play it that way, and apparently the scene was just edited very confusingly.
  In the source novel ''A Storm of Swords'', the sex between Jaime and Cersei in the equivalent scene is consensual. Several critics argued that the TV series' change damaged Jaime's redemption arc. Dodds noted that the episode "irreparably changes the way we see Jaime Lannister". Alyssa Rosenberg of ''The Washington Post'' wrote:
  Coster-Waldau said, "If you look closer there are those moments where she—well, I haven't seen the finished edit, of course—but we tried to have it where she goes into it then she pulls away, she goes in then she pulls away, but of course he is forcing himself." Later he and his co-star Lena Headey (Cersei) spoke with ''Entertainment Weekly'' during the filming of season 5, admitting that they were never directed or intended to film a rape scene. Headey stated:
  The Jaime-Cersei scene was subsequently ignored for the rest of Season 4 and the rest of the series. Writing on website TheMarySue.com, Rebecca Pahle claimed that not referring to the scene again, instead of as a long and developed subplot, trivialized rape—if, in fact, it was ever the actual intention to portray it as a rape scene. Pahle argued that in real life a woman would be traumatized by being raped, not act as if nothing had happened immediately afterwards. Pahle said that even if the show's creators did not intend it as a rape scene, ignoring questions about the scene and hoping they would go away over time was insensitive to the audience.
  In 2016, Christopher Hooton wrote for ''The Independent'':