“I did ballet and gymnastics as a child and have always enjoyed doing leaps and jumps. I was going to say let’s do some lying down, but that’s not a power stance.” –Gwendoline Christie Photographed by John Akehurst for Vanity Fair, Nov. 2015
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“I absolutely had to sacrifice my personal vanity. I’m thrilled I did that. You realise quickly that vanity can be quite worthless. When I was younger, I wasn’t sure I wanted to act because I was told it would be so hard for me, and possibly not an option at all, because of the way I looked. I leapt at the opportunity to play a character that was so outside the realms of convention. I love the part because it defies gender stereotypes and it defies aspects of femininity that always told me ‘no’.” – Gwendoline Christie for Bazaar UK (December 2014)
“All my life men like you’ve sneered at me, and all my life I’ve been knocking men like you into the dust.”
You want her? Go get her.
My name is Brienne, not wench.
“Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s always summer in the songs. In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.”
We don’t get to choose who we love.
Brienne, drawn in PS
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