Now playing on the Mitovich Mega Minute, my video Q&A with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, aka 366-year-old John Amsterdam on Fox's New Amsterdam. Enjoy! (The female coworkers he brushed up against in the hallway here sure did.)New Amsterdam airs its second episode Thursday, March 6, at 9 pm/ET, before settling into its regular Mondays-at-9 time slot.
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New Amsterdam star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau hasn't taken a sip of the Brooklyn Brown Ale offered to him on the show's Queens set. Perhaps it's because, despite playing John Amsterdam, an immortal cop who's lived in the New York area for 366 years, the Copenhagen native is more at home with a Carlsberg than a Big Apple beer. "I haven't tasted it," he says, eyeing the drink. "But I will."
Fox's New Amsterdam — premiering tonight at 9 pm/ET, then airing Thursday at 9 before settling into a Mondays-at-9 slot — is the first TV series for the 37-year-old, who played Liam Neeson's nephew in Kingdom of Heaven and is a full-fledged star back home in Denmark. He auditioned in London, where his rangy good looks and "whisper of an accent" charmed the room. "We call him the Great Dane," executive producer David M
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