THE FUTURE
christie how do you move on after this? This has been eight years of my life, and I have loved every moment of it. But personally I am very ready to change and work on other things, because I’ve explored this character – although I still feel like there’s a lot of depth – and what she’s presented to me is a template of something I want to explore more: depth in a character who is a woman and the stories of our society. It’s given me a real taste for that. Coster-waldau I like to think that Game Of Thrones will eventually make a good Trivial Pursuit question. “Multiple oscar-winning actress Gwendoline Christie, what was her first major role?”
Christie If only! It will be interesting to see if Game Of Thrones will endure. I think it will, because it feels like there were lots of firsts in this show. And also the writing is just very good. The books are very good. [Showrunners david Benioff and dan Weiss] are very good. So it stands up on its own terms outside of it being a cultural phenomenon. I’m very interested to see how it will continue to resonate through our lives.
williams I read other scripts now and think, “This is trash!” The stories are just not complex. And then sometimes you read a script which is definitely like 30 pages too long, and you think, “But there’s still no twist.” It’s sometimes really difficult to find something that surprises you. I think that’s what the show has always done so well. And you can’t do that sort of writing unless you are good at writing, because otherwise it just becomes sort of nonsensical, and you’re just being shocking for the sake of being shocking rather than writing something that’s believable. I’m constantly craving something which makes me, like, gasp as I read.
Turner It just so happens that the first thing we ever did had the best writers and the best producers and best characters. our first thing also had very empowered female characters as well. And so you go out looking for other scripts, and you’re reading them and you’re like, “Why is it written like this? Why haven’t they included this and this and this? Why isn’t it structured like this?” We have been spoiled.
The final season of Game Of Thrones is available to download now.