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Gwendoline Christie hints that Brienne will not like Daenerys in Game of Thrones Season 8
Game of Thrones Season 8 is inching closer by the day, with 12 days to go for the premiere. This has been the week of promos, and the cast interviews are rolling in as usual, with no signs of slowing down. The latest one is from Gwendoline Christie, who plays Brienne of Tarth on the show. She recently discussed Game of Thrones Season 8 and her character in this sit-down with Entertainment Weekly. Read on!
Speaking of reading the Season 8 scripts for the first time, Gwendoline revealed she actually stayed up till the morning hours to read them. She also said that she was scared for the life of her character:
“Every couple of pages I thought I was dead. If you’re lucky enough to get to season 8, you expect to die on the first page. That’s the worst case scenario. The very worst case scenario is dying off screen. At one point while reading I said to my partner, ‘I think I died and nobody said anything.’
I had to go for a very long walk. A long walk and I did not stop. I had lots of questions. If there’s a character you care about and you feel like they go through some sort of hell you feel protective toward them.”
Gwendoline said that Season 8 is going to be satisfying, which is all we’re looking for at this point:
“There’s something about this story that’s compulsive and essential. What [showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] have done in terms of this being the final season is masterful. I don’t think there’s any way people aren’t going to want more.”
Speaking of Brienne’s journey in Season 8, she said:
“This season we see more of Brienne than ever before. I’m more involved this season and I’m delighted the character has been learning from everyone she’s been around. There’s been a timidness and a tense vulnerability that was the opposite of her physical strength. It’s been interesting to watch her embrace her intellect and humor and step forward in life and make decisions. I think this is a season where Brienne’s gender is really no longer an issue. She’s treated as an equal by all and that’s very pleasing.”
To top it all off, here’s what Gwen said when asked if Brienne got along with Daenerys Targaryen:
“Brienne’s allegiance is to Sansa.” She further added, “I do think she’d like a go on her dragon!”
Looks like Lyanna Mormont won’t be the only one to not like Daenerys Targaryen in Season 8. What do you guys think? Talk to us in the comments, down below!
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John Bradley says playing Samwell Tarly gave him a stammer
John Bradley played the character of Samwell Tarly in Game of Thrones for eight seasons, nearly a decade. In a show full of mavericks, geniuses, warriors and dragons, Samwell’s character was perhaps one of the sanest on the show.
Recently while speaking with Giles Paley-Phillips and comedian Jim Daly on the Blank Podcast, he shed some light about his portrayal of Samwell. Bradley said:
“I got into this trap with Sam, I set myself traps, because he had a traumatic childhood and suffered a lot – and it manifested through a stammer and a twitch sometimes”.
Bradley also spoke about how the character of Samwell began affecting his performances outside of Thrones. He added:
“Towards the end of that journey, that stammer would turn up in non-Sam acting and I’d do auditions when I’d stammer because it just seemed like the default place that I went to when I acted”.
Bradley found himself so much into the character that, at times his co-stars had to politely push him to speak quicker. He recalled an incident with Kit Harington:
“In one scene I came in first with Kit Harington and in the nicest way he said to me “can you come in a bit quicker?” so I can react a bit quicker and I was like “I can’t, I just can’t.
As lovely as the crew were, they assumed it was because I had forgotten my lines. It took me a while to get out of it and it went away over time.”
Well, John Bradley sure seems like a perfectionist doesn’t he? It almost seems fitting that he played the most studious character of them all in a show full of larger than life characters.
What’s your view on John Bradley’s revelation? Write to us in the comments below!
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Emilia Clarke reveals she had a hard time with Daenerys’ final Dothraki speech
Game of Thrones behind the scenes bits have been floating around on the Internet these days, since the disc sets for the full series hit the shelves. A new bit now has Emilia Clarke discussing how her final speech in Dothraki was “hell”. Read on!
Entertainment Tonight recently reported about the “Duty is the Death of Love” featurette from disc sets, and Emilia discussed her last speech as Daenerys:
“I knew that speech was going to be really important, and I spent a huge amount of time learning it. And for the first time in my whole Game of Thrones career, I got that word perfect.”
She continued to talk about how it was difficult to remember the language:
“I’m being so brutally honest here — I was in hell learning that speech. This pretend language was literally eating me up. I couldn’t do it. And then, magic happened. I woke up in the morning, went on, and it all came out. I was probably fighting not what I was fighting, but what Dany was doing.”
Well, it definitely must have been hard, watching her character give everything up that quick. What do you guys think? Talk to us in the comments, down below!
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Kristofer Hivju wants a Tormund and Brienne spin-off
Game of Thrones has had a lot good on screen pairings through the run of the show, but there have also been a few ships that never became pairs. One of them was Tormund and Brienne, the subject of many a memes, but sadly we didn’t see enough of it on the show. Kristofer Hivju, however, is all for a Tormund-Brienne spin-off. Read on!
Hivju, who played Tormund, was recently at the UK disc set release event in London, and did a Q&A session, reports Fandom. When asked what he thinks about a Tormund-Brienne spin-off, he replied:
“I’m up for it.”
He added that he would like it to be a rom-com set at Castle Black, with the pair:
“…trying to run it together; it’s 19 minutes per episode.”
He’s clearly thought it through. Now that he’s said it, it honestly wouldn’t be the worst thing to follow up the timeline of the show. He then talked about how Khal Drogo was his favourite character:
“[My favourite scene] was Jason Momoa’s speech in the tent before he kills Daenerys’s brother. He’s just ranting and he’s going all the way.”
Well, we would definitely love that spin-off, and we bet it would fly well with the fans. What do you guys think? Talk to us in the comments, down below!
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