NEW “Game of Thrones” star Pilou Asbaek has teamed up with “Borgen” writer Tobias Lindholm for a third time for the upcoming film “A War.”

    Dealing with contemporary wartime issues, the film is a sharp analysis of Denmark’s military involvement in the Middle East.

    In the film, Asbaek plays a Danish military commander who is captured and threatened by the Taliban.

    The 33-year-old actor said he felt like an amateur when shooting the film.

    “Yeah because we were working with real professional soldiers who have all been based in Afghanistan a couple of times and if I was the guy who would fall out, if I was the guy who couldn’t handle a gun or didn’t know how to navigate in the weird military language that they got. I would be an absolute idiot because then it wouldn’t be so realistic.”

    “A War” has been praised as a potential Oscar winner after impressing critics and audiences at its Venice Film Festival premiere.

    (SD-Agencies)