Gwendoline Christie on Being Captain Phasma and Brienne of Tarth 

Gwendoline Christie on Being Captain Phasma and Brienne of Tarth

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"I don’t think many female actors get the opportunity to play a part where they’re not having to think about the way their face looks ..."

Actress Gwendoline Christie, known for her role as Brienne of Tarth in Games of Thrones, recently spoke about her portrayal of Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the challenges that come with the role.

“I found it to be a really interesting acting challenge, not just because of what I felt this character was representing — and it was just what I felt, and we talked about it a little bit, but it was never like a manifesto, ‘this is what it must be’ — and it was exciting to me to have that weight of responsibility taken away, of having to be a certain way as a woman, to have to be mindful in a way that isn’t always useful," she told Variety. "To have that stripped away was very liberating, and it meant that as an actor I had to focus on other things. I had to focus on what my body was communicating and what exactly my voice is communicating.”

Christie also explained that playing Brienne on Game of Thrones helped her prepare for the Star Wars role, since there is one key similarity between them. "I don’t think many female actors get the opportunity to play a part where they’re not having to think about the way their face looks, but I found exactly the same thing with Brienne of Tarth, and that was very liberating,” she said.

“It was great as an actor to work on your skills — that it isn’t about holding your head so you look beautiful. It’s about what you’re transmitting, and to be in service of an idea greater than yourself, whether it’s the character’s overriding objective or, beyond that, hopefully something more sociopolitical. We have seen an image of [Phasma] and again, it’s an unconventional kind of woman exhibiting a kind of strength, but in a very different way to my other two characters.”

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But Game of Thrones and Star Wars: The Force Awakens aren\'t the only big projects for Christie this year. She\'ll also appear in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2.

“It’s great to be involved in three big franchises, but [they’re] big three big franchises that are looking to expand our consciousness about each other as human beings, and that’s very exciting," she said.

Christie will first be seen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 in November, followed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December. Game of Thrones, meanwhile, is scheduled to return in the spring.

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