Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister Actors on Their Characters’ Moving Reunion in ‘No One’

Warning: This article contains minor spoilers forGame of ThronesSeason 6 Episode 8, titled No One. Read at your own risk.

Let's face it. While a lot of fans are shippers of Brienne and Tormund's romance, with one fan even creating a montage of the two characters, we can't escape the fact that there will always be untold feelings between Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie).

Well, for Jaime and Brienne shippers, there's a scene on this Sunday's hour that provides some fan service, but not quite so much. The scene is full of pent-up emotions though, with Jaime and Brienne having to undergo a political face-off as they try to resolve a seemingly impossible situation. Brienne is in Riverrun to seek an alliance with the Tully's for Sansa, while Jaime is there to reclaim the Tully's castle for the Lannisters.

Brienne approaches Jaime to gain access to the castle, but it is also during their conversation that audiences are given further hint at what's truly going on between the two. Apparently, despite their time away from each other, the spark is still there between the two.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Coster-Waldau and Christie talks about this inevitable face-off.

Both Coster-Waldau and Christie have been excited to shoot the scene, with the two also highlighting how their characters have grown since they last met.

Coster-Waldau said:

It's a great scene.

These characters are so much about holding their cards so close to their chest and they don't want to reveal how they're feeling. But we know there's history between them, that this is more than two knights meeting. But they would never acknowledge that.

Christie said:

I was excited, It was really fun to be with Nikolaj again, and I thought the way of which their reunion happens is not really expected.

I just loved that it was so formal, because within the confines of such formality, and having to negotiate with each other, there are so many other stories begging to be told in those moments. There's a slow process of creeping familiarity among two people who haven't been together for a long time; it was allowed to build. And I love that Brienne asserts her intelligence and her newfound mind of strategy and negotiates with Jaime and gets the outcome she wants – he allows her safe passage to go in and negotiate. It wasn't cliched in any way. You continue to see the strength of Brienne. She is so dedicated to the moral good she does everything she can to uphold her oath to Catelyn Stark.

Of course, the two actors also address the question fans have been asking since season 3 – is there really a romance between the two?

Well, as noted by the site, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss used Bronn, albeit crassly, to suggest that the two characters want to have sex with the other.

Coster-Waldau said:

[Bronn] tells us what the audience suspects.

It's a great way to get all that stuff into the audience's head before the scene because then there's this added subtext. Jaime is always about Cersei and what he can do to help her and how to achieve whatever she wants. And for Brienne, it's the same – she has an oath to Catelyn Stark. She's extremely strong willed and has her honor and has to do the right thing always. Sometimes, with both of them, you just want go, ‘For godssake, let it go for one second. What about what you want?' They never listen to themselves. And what I love about the end of this scene is there's some heartbreak. Because, once again, they were close. But are they ever gonna be able to talk about something other than someone else's agenda?

You can read the full interview here.

Well, at least the two characters didn't have to draw swords, and Jaime was able to use his newly grown skills to prevent any further deaths. I think Brienne's reunion with him influenced his desire to keep things less bloody.

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