Gwendoline Christie on Playing the ‘Complete Opposite’ of Brienne of Tarth

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Gwendoline Christie plays a character quite different from Brienne of Tarth in “Top of the Lake: China Girl.”CreditSundanceTV/See-Saw Films

Gwendoline Christie on Playing the ‘Complete Opposite’ of Brienne of Tarth

By JENNIFER VINEYARD

SEPT. 6, 2017

If Jane Campion’s first season of the crime drama “Top of the Lake” seemed remote and somber to some, the second season, “Top of the Lake: China Girl” has more of a sense of humor, even when delving into the darker recesses of life. (In this case, migrant sex workers, institutionalized misogyny, mental illness and more.) In the second season, which begins Sunday on Sundance, Elisabeth Moss’s detective Robin Griffin, who returns home to Australia after time in New Zealand, is assigned an overeager assistant, played by “Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie.

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ittle about the actor and sometime model Gwendoline Christie is strictly conventional: she describes herself as someone who sees a norm and wants to sprint in the opposite direction. Even so, in the hours before we meet, Christie has really outdone herself. The 40-year-old is just back from New York fashion week, where she stunned a Manhattan crowd silly by walking the runway dressed in a huge, floral, giant, rainbow-coloured... What was that thing, I ask?

Gwendoline Christie on ‘Game of Thrones’ and Brienne’s Love Triangles

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Gwendoline Christie on ‘Game of Thrones’ and Brienne’s Love Triangles

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By JENNIFER VINEYARD AUG. 28, 2017

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Gwendoline Christie in the “Game of Thrones” Season 7 finale. CreditHBO

In Sunday’s Season 7 finale of “Game of Thrones,” after arriving at King’s Landing from Winterfell, Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) bears witness to the presentation of the undead wight, the hard-won proof of the common evil all of the show’s characters will soon face.

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Can opposing sides put aside their squabbles and band together to prevent the end of the world? For her part, Brienne tries to facilitate that, even if she’s rebuffed in the moment by Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), her former road trip partner. We talked with Ms. Christie about Brienne’s tête-à-tête with her gold-handed man, her reunion with a past combatant and her unusual love triangles. Following are edited excerpts from that conversation.