While promoting upcoming films, Gwendoline Christie and Natalie Dormer discussed Game of Thrones characters and what we can expect next season.

Gwendoline Christie appeared on “Live with Kelly and Michael” to promote Star Wars: The Force Awakens. During the interview, Michael asked her about Brienne and Christie recounted how she first learned about the character through a fan campaign for her to get the role. She then read the books and fell in love with Brienne. She also spoke of how heartening she finds the popularity of a show that features a woman as “unconventional” as Brienne.

“What that says is, ‘We want to see different kinds of people in our entertainment’ and I do think Brienne of Tarth has been one of those,” Christie said.

On a similar note, Christie discussed her admiration for Star Wars‘ strong female characters during an interview with ScreenSlam.

“I remember even at [the age of 6] seeing Princess Leia and being so in a state of rapture due to her strength, her wit, her determination and thinking, ‘That’s unusual. I don’t really see women like that in the things that I watch … I like it and I like her and I want to be like her’.”

Christie expressed her excitement to be playing Star Wars‘ first female villain. “The idea that there is a female character who is encased in armor and we primarily form a relationship with her due to her actions and her character rather than the way she has been made flesh was very interesting to me.”

In another interview with Made in Hollywood TV, Christie described the process of filming Star Wars and Game of Thrones at the same time.

Of course, Christie isn’t the only Game of Thrones actress with a movie about to come out. Natalie Dormer spoke with Wetpaint to promote her upcoming horror film, The Forest. When asked what fans can expect in Game of Thrones season 6, Dormer replied:

“Gone off piste — we don’t have the books any more … This is Dan and David’s first independent season without the penmanship of George R.R. [Martin]. It’s going to be very interesting for the fans to see, it’s completely fresh snow to step into.”

Lastly, WOTW reader, Archie, sent us an interview that Michael McElhatton gave back in July in which McElhatton mentions that he receives all 10 scripts at once. So, it’s possible that the practice of handing scripts out one episode at a time only applies to those in minor supporting roles.

McElhatton says, “There’s a storyline planted in which I have a new heir on the way. I think that’s going to cause some problems for Ramsay. And that’s going to play out probably in not very favorable terms.”

At any rate, it’s always nice to see a Bolton out of character.