Game Of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie has said that the show ‘squeezed every drop’ out of her and honestly, we think it has for us too.
The actress, who stars as Brienne Of Tarth in the fantasy series, opened up about saying goodbye to the show and her beloved character after so long.
It appears she won’t miss the workload, as she admitted: ‘It was just a lot, a lot, a lot. It was a lot! … I agree with Kit. They squeezed the orange. Every last drop of juice out of that orange! And just a husk was left behind.’
However, she makes no secret of the impact that the show had on her life, confessing to the Guardian’s Weekend magazine: ‘That character has changed my life. I feel emotional. I feel emoji – the tears straight down, and the scream [ones].’
And her stint on the show has helped her in a host of ways, with the 40-year-old previously revealing that it allowed her to deal with body insecurities.
‘I remember when I had my hair cut off, the armour, the mud … I completely changed the way that I looked,’ she recalled.
‘I knew I had to overcome the things that I was uncomfortable with, like my androgyny, my height, my physical strength, feeling like an outsider, being told I was an outsider.
‘It’s definitely given me more confidence.’
With Brienne being just one of the many fierce female characters populating Westeros, Gwendoline also recently explained that the abundance of awesome women is down to the GoT fandom.
Speaking to Variety, she said: ‘Something I’m deeply proud of in this show is that it has honoured the books, it has taken the characters that are so exquisitely drawn and described in the books, and maintained that and kept it in the TV show.
‘And I think that this huge phenomenon that is Game of Thrones has illustrated that people want to see female characters, they’re interested in those stories. And it has provided some really exceptional female characters.’
Maybe one of them will even take their spot on the Iron Throne. Only time will tell.
Game Of Thrones returns 14 April on Sky Atlantic. Seasons 1-7 are available to watch on NOW TV.
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