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Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) is a fan-favorite “Game of Thrones” character. Tough yet humble, fierce yet honorable, Brienne was an underdog everyone except the Hound’s fans could root for. It’s a part that also raised Christie’s profile significantly, helping her land memorable roles in projects like the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy<\/a> and “Wednesday.”\u00a0Joining “Game of Thrones” was a clear net positive for Christie, which is why it’s odd to learn that her agent urged her against it.<\/p>\n “I immediately rang my agent and said, ‘I want to do this,'”\u00a0Christie explained at “Game of Thrones” season 3’s UK launch in 2013 (via Digital\u00a0Spy<\/a>).\u00a0“My agent said, ‘What are you talking about? I’d never ever put you up for this. She’s ugly, her nose is broken, her teeth are broken, and you’ll need to use a sword.'”<\/p>\n In the show’s source material, the people around her constantly trash Brienne’s looks. Her appearance is a core aspect of her character and part of why she’s so thick-skinned and uninterested in behaving like a typical lady. Christie herself, on the other hand, has no interest in fighting in real-life. As she told The Standard<\/a> in 2018:<\/p>\n “It just was, in every sense of the word, incredible that that part should come along, made for me in a way that none of my friends would’ve identified for a second. They saw all of the fighting, the physicality, the fact that it was a character who was constantly being described as ugly. None of the people who knew me could understand why I would want to play that part. […] I had to cut my hair, change my body, strip off my make-up. This is not the person I have presented to the world at all.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n