Gwendoline Christie

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine. ”

I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that. ”

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious. ”

I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. ”

Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack. ”

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. ”

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen. ”

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me. ”

I've always been able to look very different very easily. ”

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal. ”