I don’t think Brienne has seen something of herself in somebody like that before.
“And working with Gwen was great fun.
“Oh, it was really fantastic,” agrees Christie.
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“We worked really hard on it.
It was exciting to see that development somebody else too, in Maisie.”
Even then, however, Arya was intrigued by this fellow female warrior.
“The day we were filming we knew that fight backward,” Christie notes.
“We got to really put some energy into it.
There isn’t a desire to hurt each other, it’s about a matching of skills.
“I think Brienne is trying to keep it civil and trying to be grown up about it.
The first half the scene is Arya nitpicking and trying to get a reaction and being annoying.
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