Gwendoline Christie hatte „wirklich Probleme“, bevor sie für „Game of Thrones“ gecastet wurde: „Ich war nie eine konventionelle Wahl“

> She continued, “At drama school, they told all of us, if you’re very, very lucky, one day you may find a part that speaks to you. And in it speaking to you, in a sense, it does the work for you. I didn’t think I’d ever quite find that.”

> Christie said she didn’t have that belief because, in part, “I was really struggling with myself if I’m honest.” She explained, “Society still does sometimes, but on the whole then, find me difficult to digest. I’ve never been a conventional choice. But that part was like a bolt from the blue.”

> But she said “nobody” thought she’d really book it. “I’d just been told consistently, ‘You’ll never work on screen because you’re too tall and you’re too unconventional looking and you’re too large overall and you’re too much taller than most men,’ ” she said. Christie is six feet, three inches tall.