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Gwendoline Christie : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn This week, it’s Gwendoline Christie! She’s best known for her part as Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones launched Christie’s career. Before it wrapped, she was cast in two Star Wars movies. She recently earned an Emmy nomination for her part in Severance as the lady who was in charge of all the goats. She talks to Bullseye about art, resilience, and getting ready to wrangle all those goats.

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Gwendoline Christie

Gwendoline Christie

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Joining us on Bullseye this week is Gwendoline Christie! She's probably best known for her part as Brienne of Tarth, one of the strongest, most intimidating characters on Game of Thrones. At first glance, Brienne seemed like a classic fantasy character: a knight, brave and true. Yet, Christie made it much more than a fantasy archetype.

Game of Thrones launched Gwendoline Christie's career. Before it wrapped, she was cast in two Star Wars movies. Since then, she's had recurring roles on the Netflix shows Sandman and Wednesday. If you watched Severance, you probably remember seeing her as the lady who was in charge of all the goats. If that makes no sense to you, go see Severance. It's weird and wonderful.

Christie recently earned an Emmy nomination for that part in Severance, because she's great in everything.

She talked to Bullseye about channeling her resilience in her creative career, and the animal experiences that prepared her to wrangle goats on Severance.

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