“Arise, Ser Brienne of Tarth, knight of the Seven Kingdoms“, so proclaimed Jaime Lannister. The entire Game of Thrones fandom was in tears even as Brienne broke into a glowing smile. Speaking about the already iconic scene to The Wrap, Nikolaj ‘Jaime’ Coster-Waldau confirms what all of us were thinking – Jaime knighted Brienne as a way to express his love for her.
The knighting of Brienne was one of the most memorable moments in last Sunday’s episode, and perhaps the entire show. When asked about his decision to knight Brienne on the spur of the moment, Coster-Waldau said,
“I mean, it’s clearly a woman that he has enormous admiration for and just a human being that he admires. And we saw a scene earlier [in the episode] where he asks if he can serve under her, because he knows she is amazing at what she does and she’s a great warrior and she has all the qualities and is the most deserving of the title of knight of anyone in that world. So I think it’s obviously an act of love.”
Oh-kay!
So does that point to some romantic possibilities in the coming episodes between our favourite lady knight and redemptive bad boy pair? Coster-Waldau is very careful with that answer.
“I mean, we have another four episodes to go, so I think that the less I say about them the better. You know, what she did in the beginning — she saved his life …by vouching for him and clearly there’s a lot of respect [there].”
As always, Coster-Waldau is quick to acknowledge the ‘competition’ – namely, Tormund Giantsbane. The lovable wildling has been trying to win Brienne’s love for several seasons now with hilarious results. But it was his question that actually set in motion the whole knighting ceremony.
For Jaime, women being barred from knighthood was a normal thing. He needed Tormund’s outsider perspective to see there may be some injustice there.
Coster-Waldau states as much when he says,
“I don’t think he thought of it, but then when you hear Tormund Giantsbane go, ‘Well, why can’t a woman be a knight?’ and then she goes, ‘tradition,’ and he says ‘f**k tradition’ — it kind of, I think that inspires him, that moment.”
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