Embracing her distinctive side. Gwendoline Christie is a major star now, but some naysayers once doubted that she’d ever make it in film and TV.“I’d been told, just simply because I was a tall woman with somewhat unusual looks, that I would probably never work on screen,” the Wednesday star, 44, recalled in a Vogue video published on Thursday, January 26.
Her “huge breakthrough,” she added, came when she landed the role of Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones.“This part had been lovingly crafted by George R.R.
Martin,” the U.K. native explained, referring to the author of the Song of Ice and Fire books on which the series was based. “I had to take my hair away.
I had to acknowledge my height, my strength, my size, my androgyny and also my vulnerability.”After the show wrapped, however, Christie was still “very concerned” about “being cast-able” for parts in movies and television. “I was concerned that maybe I wasn’t being considered for roles because I was just too unconventional and maybe I should make more effort to fit in,” the Top of the Lake alum said. “And then I thought, ‘No, I’m not going to make any effort to fit in.
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