Game of Thrones Season 8 episode 4, “The Last of the Starks” had a very emotional moment between the fandom’s long “shipped” couple — Jaime and Brienne. We saw the two get together, finally, as they made love. However, that didn’t last too long, as in the same episode, we got to see Jaime leave her for Cersei, and Brienne breaks out crying as it happens. Game of Thrones director David Nutter has revealed what Jaime said to her that made her cry. Read on!
The scene actually doesn’t show Jaime saying anymore, but in a recent interview with Collider, director David Nutter revealed that Nikolaj Coster-Waldau said something off camera to Gwendoline Christie, that helped her bring out the reaction for the scene:
“When I was shooting Gwendoline’s close-up, what I asked Nikolaj to do is I asked him to say — after he finished his dialogue — tell her, ‘I don’t love you anymore.’ And basically, Brienne is such a sensitive person, as is Gwendoline, that that’s basically the thing that he’s saying … but he’s not saying it too directly. So I basically had him say it off camera and when he did that, she basically lost it completely and that’s the reaction that was actually kind of recorded at that point.”
He also talked a bit more about the scene:
“Well, it was interesting. It was one in which, for the first time, [Brienne] is really – is professing her love for him by asking him to stay behind and stay with her and not go forward. And Jaime’s — his self-realization of what am I made of? Who am I? And what’s causing me to do this? And basically, Cersei’s causing him to do this in some respect.”
He also discussed another important reaction, that of Grey Worm’s after Melisandre is executed:
“I just spent time with him alone and we talked about it and kind of let him know how his reaction … it has to be such that it needs to validate what happened … also, to legitimize what happened, and also, to give a sense of how it really affected Grey Worm and how he would react to that. And we discussed that quite extensively.”
Nutter also teased the next episode, while referring to Daenerys’ reaction to the same scene:
“I’ve never seen Dany that angry and that determined. So, I would keep my head down when it comes to the next episode.”
Well, keep an eye out for fire and blood in the next episode. What do you think? Talk to us in the comments, down below!
