SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for Game Of Thrones season 8, episode 4 ahead…
The guys behind Game Of Thrones sure know how to ruin your day, right? Just as we were feeling all warm and fuzzy at Jaime Lannister and Brienne Of Tarth finally admitting their feelings for one another, the script calls for Jaime to bugger off; back to his sister/girlfriend, Cersei Lannister.
As Jaime is making his excuses and leaving in the middle of the night, Brienne falls apart, and who can blame her?!
And now GOT’s director, David Nutter, has revealed that he asked Nikolaj Coster-Waldau aka Jaime to ad-lib something to say to Gwendoline Christie – who plays Brienne – off-screen to get the tears rolling.
“When I was shooting Gwendoline [Christie]'s close-up, what I asked Nikolaj to do is, I asked him to say — after he finished his dialogue — tell her, 'I don't love you anymore’,” he told Collider.
“And Brienne is such a sensitive person, as is Gwendoline. That's basically the thing that he's saying… but he's not saying it too directly.
“So, I had him say it off camera and when he did that, she kind of lost it completely and that's the reaction that was actually kind of recorded at that point.”
Gwendoline has spoken recently about how she had to go for a walk after reading in the script what was to happen between Jaime and Brienne.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she said: “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.
“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.”
Stupid Jaime.
