Major spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8, episode 4 ahead.
Game of Thrones season eight, episode four broke all of our hearts when not only did we have to watch peaceful Missandei brutally killed and the majestic Rhaegal gunned down, we also had to witness bad*** Brienne of Tarth get her heart broken by Jaime Lannister.
Don’t even mention the stupid coffee cup or Ghost getting shafted.
Now the episode’s director revealed what Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) said off-screen to make Brienne (Gwendoline Christie) cry.
‘When I was shooting Gwendoline [Christie]’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”,’ David Nutter told Collider.
‘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.’
He added: ‘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.’
Harsh.
Well, it certainly seemed to work as the scene was absolutely heartbreaking.
Brienne and Jaime finally slept together in episode four after their relationship really seemed to blossom into something special, making Jaime’s departure even more painful.
Here’s hoping it’s part of a larger plan to try and kill Cersei (Lena Headey) and not because he actually doesn’t love her.
Either way, we’ll never forgive Jaime for having Brienne out in the snow in her housecoat crying over a one-handed man who sleeps with his sister.
Game of Thrones season 8 episode 4 is streaming on NOW TV.
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