Gwendoline Christie
Gwendoline Christie
Gwendoline Christieis an English actress and model. She is known for portraying the warrior Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones and playing Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 October 1978
CitySussex, England
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I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely changed my diet. I felt I wanted to undergo what was necessary for the part. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes and people’s expectations of me as an actress.
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I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.
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The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.
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People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'
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I used to do karaoke with Patrick Woolf in a karaoke box, and he would ring me up and say, 'Come down and do karaoke with me here,' and then we'd sing Kate Bush songs and get really, really emotional and theatrical in the booth.
I've always been able to look very different very easily.
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Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms.
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I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.
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I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.
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Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling.
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My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'
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Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that bear could do to order! He was one of the best actors I've ever worked with.
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I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to breeze through life's turmoils; there's more room to breathe.
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It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.