She is an outspoken feminist and antibullying activist that uses her fame to condemn body shaming. Her role as Brienne was a blessing to both herself and her fans as she confessed that it helped her love herself more. Gwendoline doesn't fail to emphasize the advantages of having features like hers and why everyone should be given an equal opportunity in life.
Gwendoline Christie joined the cast of Game of Thrones in , although her character didn't appear on the show until the second episode, "What Is Dead May Never Die. She has never named any member of the cast as her favorite co-star, although most fans assumed she was closest to Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime. The two shared many romantic scenes since Jaime is Brienne's only lover in the show, but their friendship doesn't seem to have drifted beyond the set.
Gwendoline is close with Kit Harrington, though. She shared many behind-the-scenes photos with Harrington, who plays Jon Snow , and the two appear to be close even away from the set.
Playing Brienne Of Tarth has put Gwendoline in the limelight , so she is no longer the struggling actress of the early s. Her performance in Game of Thrones brought her a lot of publicity that has seen her appear in some of the best films every year since , especially after In , Gwendoline appeared in the trailer of Star Wars: Force Awakens leading to the increased interest in the film because she was playing Captain Phasma, but her character wasn't given a lot of screen time which led to a backlash.
Billy Oduory is an author and editor with a vast experience in creating interesting entertainment reads. He has an eye for the fine interesting details that mainstream media ignores. You can follow him on Twitter billyoduory. By Billy Oduory Published Oct 17, As the meeting disperses, Brienne accosts Jaime and begs him to talk to Cersei to try to convince her to put aside their petty differences and join them in defeating the wights.
Jaime doesn't believe talking to Cersei will do any good. She is seen standing with Jon's party when Cersei returns from speaking with Tyrion, apparently having decided to help the North after all. Brienne returns to Winterfell alongside Jon and Daenerys's forces and helps organize the defense of the castle.
At Jaime Lannister's trial in the Great Hall, she speaks on his behalf, convincing Sansa, Daenerys, and Jon to spare him after telling them the story of how he saved her from Locke's men, along with assigning her mission to find and protect the Stark girls. Later, Brienne is overseeing Podrick's progress as he trains someone, when Jaime arrives to thank her for supporting him.
Thinking he plans to insult her once again, she is surprised when he asks to serve under her command in the upcoming battle. Though hesitant at first, she accepts. Brienne is present when Jon and the others discuss their plan of defense, refusing another of Tormund's advances in the process.
Later, she joins the Lannister brothers for wine , but orders a half cup for Podrick, since the battle could start at any moment; Tyrion serves Podrick a full cup anyway. After hearing Tormund's story of how he earned his nickname "Giantsbane", he questions her status among the nobility. Brienne confesses that she was never made a knight, due to tradition. Tormund scoffs at the idea and declares that he would knight Brienne ten times over if he was a king, presumably under the assumption that only a king has the standing to perform the knighting ceremony.
Jaime notes that Tormund wouldn't need to be a king to knight Brienne, as knights are also permitted to perform the ceremony. He offers to knight her himself, and she accepts, becoming Ser Brienne. She celebrates with the others, but the festivities are cut short by three horn blasts, signalling the arrival of the White Walkers.
Brienne, Jaime, Jorah Mormont and Grey Worm lead the Northern and Targaryen forces to fight the dead in the open during the Battle of Winterfell but are quickly overwhelmed, Brienne herself being saved by Jaime during the initial onslaught. As they are forced to retreat into Winterfell, they try to fend off the wights trying to breach the walls of the castle. However, the undead army is obliterated with the death of the Night King at the hands of Arya. After the victory over the dead, the living celebrate, and she rejects the advances of Tormund.
Brienne and Jaime exchange smiles and Tyrion, now very drunk, correctly guesses Brienne is a virgin. Her smile fades and says she must relieve herself. Jaime follows her into her quarters, and they end up having sex. Despite his love for Brienne, Jaime decides to head back after the Iron Fleet ambushed the Targaryen forces near Dragonstone , horrified about Cersei's fate if she loses.
Brienne pleads with him not to leave, stating he is a good man, but he states he is as hateful as Cersei. After Tyrion suggests that the lords of Seven Kingdoms choose their new king and suggests Bran Stark 's name, Brienne assents to the proposal.
She is made Lord Commander of the Kingsguard , with the emblem of a raven now present on the armour of the sworn brotherhood, an ode to Bran's status as the Three-Eyed Raven. While reading the " The Book of Brothers ", she comes upon Jaime's entry and decides to complete it. She praises his actions and says he "died defending his queen", welling up while writing it.
Brienne later takes part in the first meeting of the small council , under the stewardship of Tyrion, the new Hand of the King. She tells Podrick to take Bran away from the meeting so he can focus on finding Drogon , who has been seen flying towards Volantis , using his abilities as a warg. When Bronn suggests rebuilding the city's brothels since all of the well-known ones were destroyed following the Battle of King's Landing , she expresses disapproval at the thought of priortizing it over rebuilding the royal fleet, which clearly takes precedence due to the lack of ships in the Six Kingdoms following the war for Westeros.
Brienne has spent most of her life as the object of scorn, rejection and — at best — pity. When she tried to dress and act like a proper lady, she was met with mockery and disdain for her unattractive appearance and lack of feminine social graces; when she turned to a career more suited to her talents as a warrior, she received only contempt and resentment for her gender despite her considerable skill.
These aspects of her life have resulted in her being penalised by Westerosi society due to unconventionality. Her lifetime of scorn and condescension led her to becoming extremely pragmatic and blunt. However, it has also provided her with nerves of Valyrian steel, and she is completely unafraid to face off against warriors as powerful or as intimidating as Jaime Lannister arguably the best sword in the realm , Loras Tyrell a renowned warrior and even Sandor Clegane a physically brutal and extremely intimidating person with an infamous temper.
Perhaps because of this background, Brienne is as awkward in personality as she is in appearance; Catelyn Stark notices that she has none of the easy confidence of some other warrior women. She yearns for respect and acceptance from others, and easily gives her love and loyalty to the few people who treat her with any degree of genuine courtesy.
Renly Baratheon, Catelyn Stark, and Jaime Lannister are among those who have won Brienne's friendship and service in this manner. Brienne, much like Eddard Stark , is motivated by her own sense of honor and duty, thus seeing most dishonorable acts as unacceptable.
She often faces situations where her honor is eclipsed and opposed by her heart, since she confessed to Jaime that her failure to sway the Blackfish would result in the two of them fighting one another again, saying so in a tone that states outright she doesn't want to fight him - even though she has a considerable chance of defeating him.
She can be headstrong, sarcastic, cynical and judgmental, but she is also honest, straightforward, loyal, and determined. Although she has received extremely poor treatment from most knights, Brienne clings to a naively idealized concept of knighthood. Despite — or perhaps because of — the fact that she has no expectation of ever being recognized by society for her accomplishments and strength of character, she nevertheless strives to live up to the ideal of a true knight at all times.
Brienne adheres to the expectations and guidelines of knighthood almost formally, since she expressed at the climax of her fight with the Hound that she had no wish to kill him which he ignored and continued to fight her , and also carried out the killing of Stannis Baratheon as if it were an official execution, even permitting him any last words. However, she incorrectly cited that Renly was the rightful king, even though he was second to Stannis, but this was done mostly out of personal loyalty.
Evidently, Brienne expressed considerable joy when she was eventually knighted by Jaime prior to the Battle of Winterfell and was applauded by those who had witnessed it. This brought Brienne things she had craved for her entire life: becoming a knight surrounded by genuine companions who fully accepted her. Brienne has proven herself to be one of the strongest fighters in Westeros, albeit the most underrated.
In combat, she relies on a combination of her intimidating size, strength, and unrelenting brute force to win most fights. This unrelenting style is what allowed her to defeat Loras Tyrell and Sandor Clegane, two of the greatest swordsmen in the realm. She could fight three men at the same time, beat two armored soldiers in a confined space and hold her ground against Jaime Lannister.
Even after she was presented with a prominent disadvantage, such as being disarmed, she would resort brutally to continue fighting, shown when she proceeded to fight the Hound even after he'd ridden her of her sword.
Jaime confessed that he considered her a good fighter, even before they became friends. Brienne of Tarth is extremely noble and humble at all times, as evidenced by her confessing at several points that she was not a knight, and at one point not even a lady - even though she was inevitably a lady of Tarth as the only daughter of Lord Selwyn Tarth.
This was probably motivated by her self-induced belief that she was inferior to the standards of a true knight, given that she has faced being underrated and underappreciated for her appearance and gender her whole life. The irony of the entire situation is that she exemplifies the qualities of a true knight: She is a strong and skilled fighter, is merciful and compassionate, unshakably loyal and determined, and takes her duties as a warrior sworn to a higher authority extremely seriously.
The only reason she isn't viewed as such by the people of the Seven Kingdoms is because she is a woman. For her role as Brienne, Christie extensively trained to get into the right physical condition, as well as cutting off her long hair and reading all of the available novels to study her character's development in detail.
She has said that Brienne is very different from her own personality and style. As a trained dancer and photography model, she favors heels and lots of make-up. In her interview with SFX magazine she talks about the way fans made her aware of the part. She found her name posted on a website as the one who should play Brienne, and then when she asked her agent about this part, he had already been emailed by another fan informing him of it.
Many actresses auditioned, and Gwendolyn Christie came dressed and in character. According to author George R. Martin , "This was another one of those cases where there was hardly any debate. The day the first batch of auditions went up for the role, we looked at a dozen actresses who were reading for Brienne, and one actress who WAS Brienne. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Brienne is considered ugly and ungainly, but is immensely skilled at combat.
She is taller and stronger than many men, and her father and his head of household guards have trained her for many years in the arts of combat. Some people consider her a freak, while other men hope to marry her to inherit her father's wealthy lands.
For her part, Brienne yearns for respect, acceptance and a chance to prove her valor in a worthy cause. Brienne is described as homely: her hair is a squirrel's nest of dirty straw; her features are broad and coarse; her teeth are prominent and crooked; her mouth is too wide; her lips are so plump they seemed swollen; a thousand freckles speckle her cheeks and brow; and her nose had been broken more than once.
Her only lovely feature is her eyes, large and very blue, trusting and guileless. Very few people Renly, Cortnay Penrose, Catelyn, and Jaime see beyond her ugliness and realize that she is honest, decent and honorable, if also naive and stubborn.
Brienne becomes a POV character in the fourth novel. Brienne is the oldest daughter of Lord Selwyn of Tarth. She had two younger sisters but they both died in the cradle. She had an older brother named Galladon, but he drowned when she was eight years old, leaving her as Selwyn's only surviving child and heir. The TV series vaguely acknowledged this in Season 5's " High Sparrow " when she described herself as her father's only "living child.
When Brienne was young, Septa Roelle was her tutor. The books don't make specific mention of her mother: in the TV series she says that she never knew her, implying that she died when Brienne was very young.
Brienne has a good relationship with her father and describes him as a good man. She notes that since her mother died he is in a relationship with a new female romantic interest every year or so. Martin, Brienne in the books is supposed to be unusually tall and muscular for a woman, but not freakishly so. She is above six feet tall but not near seven feet i.
She is taller than Jaime Lannister or Renly Baratheon, and significantly more heavyset. Still, she is not quite as tall as either Greatjon Umber or Sandor Clegane i.
Rory McCann , who plays the latter, is 6'6". There is widespread fan speculation that Brienne of Tarth is a descendant of the famous knight Duncan the Tall , who eventually rose to be Lord Commander of the Kingsguard under his friend King Aegon V Targaryen. George R. Martin has stated that, with time-jumps in between each story, he intends for the prequel novellas to cover the entire lives of Dunk and Egg, up until about 50 years ago.
There are three pieces of evidence that Brienne might be Duncan's descendant:. There is also speculation that Hodor may be a descendant of Ser Duncan, as Hodor is also extremely tall, over seven feet in height, and the upcoming fourth prequel novella, The She-Wolves of Winterfell , reveals that Ser Duncan traveled to Winterfell. At one point Bran Stark has a greensight vision of the past, and sees a very large man "as tall as Hodor" in the Winterfell godswood, being kissed by a slender young woman - who might have been Old Nan.
Speaking at Balticon , George R. Martin seemed to have all but confirmed that Brienne is a descendant of Duncan the Tall: a fan asked him if he would eventually decide how Brienne is specifically descended from Ser Duncan - not "if" she is descended from Ser Duncan - and his short answer was that he hadn't decided yet.
This would seem to confirm that she is descended from Ser Duncan, but Martin hadn't at the time figured out the intervening generations. She first met Renly when he came to Tarth to see her father who was his bannerman. He treated her with courtesy and respect. He danced with her, and she has been in love with him ever since.
Lady Catelyn realizes this the first time she sees Brienne looking at Renly down at him, as she stands a half-hand taller than him. Brienne always tries to be at Renly's side. She offers to guard him the night before the battle, but Renly says no as he and Loras are going to "pray together privately.
According to Loras , Renly thought that Brienne was absurd - a woman dressed in man's mail, pretending to be a knight. Yet he kept her close, because all his other knights wanted things of him, castles or honors or riches, but all that Brienne wanted was to die for him.
Loras also believes that Brienne killed Renly. When she and Jaime return to King's Landing , Loras a member of the Kingsguard in the book narrative confronts Brienne and orders her to draw her sword. Jaime intervenes and warns Loras that Brienne is as strong as Gregor Clegane , and if Loras duels her it will likely be his corpse that is carried away afterwards. When Brienne joined Renly's army, he greeted her courteously and welcomed her to his service. She expected the other knights to treat her with coldness and mockery, but to her surprise many of them were exceedingly kind to her, going above and beyond the others to win her favor, except Randyll Tarly who was openly hostile toward her.
Brienne was confused and suspicious to be treated so warmly. The mystery was solved when Dickon Tarly overheard by chance four knights talking about a wager that three of the soldiers put on the first who could claim Brienne's maidenhead, and many others joined the contest. Dickon told his father, and Randyll put an end to the wager, knowing that some of the challengers were less honorable than others, and it was only a matter of time before one of them decided to claim the prize by force.
He told Brienne about the wager, bluntly claiming it was her fault. Brienne was deeply offended, and said that she came to fight and never did anything to encourage those knights. Randyll was not appeased, and told her that her presence alone encouraged them because a war host is no place for a maiden.
Except this time Sansa, too, takes that declaration seriously, and recites her own lines of that oath with a little prompting from Podrick as to the exact wording. Oof, I just teared up again. The cameramen, likewise, have some fun with their height difference. It certainly helps, amid all of this, that Gwendoline Christie IRL has a gargantuan, braying laugh that undercuts the ultra-seriousness of all of this.
Oh, shut your meadhole. Just like her. She is primed to thrive in the post-show Seven Kingdoms, with fucking Bran on the throne, and order and righteousness restored, and a wealth of prequel ideas in play but nearly all of them reaching back into the illustrious, lawless past. Certainly she has earned a measure of peace and tranquility, even if the show has not. A false but nonetheless comforting sense of offscreen Happily Ever After is perfect for her, in a Lawless Good sense. The Australian singer-songwriter is back with a new collection of songs that shows off her sweeter, softer, and more adventurous side.
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She had feelings for him and seemed to have lost sight of what was important as long as she served him. She even failed to notice Sansa's candle pleading for help when she ran to go and avenge Renly when Stannis was finally defeated in battle. Brienne was good with a sword, but no one expected her to beat The Kingslayer nor Sandor Clegane when it came to one-on-one combat until she did.
Game of Thrones didn't have many great swordswomen, and Brienne would be the best of them all. She wielded the sword better than most of the best male fighters in the show and managed to beat the most formidable knights.
Despite her flaws in judgment and her blind loyalty even to doomed causes, Brienne was always the knight to look up to if you needed a battle won. She stayed loyal to her oaths, including the one of becoming a knight, which seemed impossible in the first seven seasons of Game Of Thrones. Jaime choosing Caesei over her was the first time Brienne of Tarth really broke down and cried despite all the hard times she had already survived.
Jaime Lannister was Brienne's doom; At least, nearly. From the first time she set eyes on the Kingslayer in Robb's custody, Brienne seemed to fold to his gaze. Their toxic relationship, full of insults and honesty, was all interesting but still bothering for most fans. Jaime was a crooked man full of hate, just like his father and sister, and Brienne knew that very well. She retained her moral code throughout the relationship, but most fans would agree that her purpose would be better served if she found love in someone with better morals and who would at least love her back.
Without Ser Brienne, House Stark would have finished the show smaller than it was, if not extinct.
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