Game of Thrones Season 8 episode 4 “The Last of the Starks” finally saw the fandom’s biggest ship consummate their love. Jaime and Brienne made love, and in the same episode, we saw Jaime leave Brienne to go south for Cersei. In an interview with EW, Gwendoline Christie, who plays Brienne, revealed her feelings about the whole thing. Read on!
Speaking of the build-up to them getting together, Gwendoline said:
“It was very important to me that we saw Jaime and Brienne’s relationship expressed throughout the battle. They’re in a rare situation where they can completely trust and depend on each other. You take a complicated and solid relationship into a brutal and mind-blowing apocalyptic war. Does it break them apart or force them closer together? You take that relationship and put it into the highest stakes possible and it gets stronger and they worked together completely.”
Speaking of her reaction to their lovemaking scene when she first read the script, she said:
“What’s always important to me is the “how.” Not the “what,” it’s the “how.” It’s important to me how these things come about. I felt it was important to see a moment of choice from Brienne where she chooses to do this. Brienne is a virgin. As far as we know, Brienne hasn’t had a sexual or romantic encounter before. In the books, the character sleeps in her armor to protect herself. It’s important that she choose to explore life in that way and have that experience. I was pleased that if something happens between her and another character that she wants it. I like that she instigated it. As an unconventional woman that we’ve seen grown, I enjoy that she decided to grow in a different way.”
She also revealed Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s reaction to the script:
“I received a text from [Jaime actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau] just laughing. I sent back a being sick emoji. How modern.”
Apparently, Nikolaj also told her to not laugh during the scene, and the two had to try hard to stay serious. Moving on, she talked about how she felt about Jaime leaving Brienne to go south:
“I was so upset for her. I know it’s just a character and I’m an actor who’s lucky to do her job. It’s so heartbreaking. But it’s life isn’t it? Life is heartbreaking. I never assumed they would be together. I didn’t think that would happen. And now I can feel a million hearts breaking.”
She continued:
“I have no judgment of Cersei but their relationship is dysfunctional. That’s when I went very red. I was very upset and I had to go for a walk.”
Gwendoline also said it bothered her more than them actually getting together in the first place:
“I know it’s silly. It’s just a character, not a living human being, but I feel for her so deeply. I love that she doesn’t crumble from it. She goes back to work. Because she always loves work — that feels refreshing, a woman can be happy without a companion. Woman don’t have to be defined by their partner and that’s good. But my god. That’s the Game of Thrones, isn’t it? Just when you think things are going to go well it punches you harder than ever in the guts…”
Well, that is true. What did you think about Jaime and Brienne in this episode? Talk to us in the comments, down below?
