"The O.C." only lasted four seasons, but the primetime teen soap about privileged families living in the beachfront town of Newport Beach, Calif., launched the careers of many stars and introduced some of the older cast members to a whole new audience. Here's what the actors from "The O.C." are up to now:
Mischa Barton (Marissa Cooper)
Mischa Barton was born in foggy London but took "The O.C." by storm, playing troubled California girl Marissa Cooper. Her character was eventually killed off in a car accident.
Despite a real-life DUI arrest in 2007 and a stint at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center psych ward, she kept pushing her career forward.
This year, Barton will star in two horror films, notably "Resurrection," admitting to TWELV magazine, "I literally became obsessed with that genre." Off-screen she sells her upscale handbag line. Does she miss all the press? Not at all: "I'm so relieved it's not how it was. … It was just over the top."
Ben McKenzie (Ryan Atwood)
Once a relative unknown, Ben McKenzie shot to superstardom playing Ryan Atwood, the bad boy from the wrong side of town who gets adopted into the wealthy Cohen family.
In 2007, he acted with his idol Al Pacino in the film "88 Minutes." He then took the starring role in the 2008 movie "Johnny Got His Gun," about a wounded World War II soldier alone in his thoughts.
These days, McKenzie plays rookie police officer Ben Sherman on the gritty police drama "Southland." The show -- co-starring Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, and Regina King -- airs on TNT. McKenzie recently booked the co-lead role in CBS's pilot drama "The Advocates."
Rachel Bilson (Summer Roberts)
Los Angeles native Rachel Bilson was encouraged to pursue a career in acting by her father, Danny -- who was a writer, producer, and director -- and at age 21, she nabbed the role of Summer Roberts on "The O.C."
After the series ended, Bilson made the leap to the big screen, co-starring in the Zach Braff film "The Last Kiss," and popped up on TV with guest spots on "Chuck" and "How I Met Your Mother." It wasn't until she reteamed with "O.C." creator Josh Schwartz that she found big success on the small screen again as Dr. Zoe Hart on The CW series "Hart of Dixie."
Adam Brody (Seth Cohen)
Adam Brody was cast as geeky Seth Cohen on "The O.C." and spent the next four years gracing teen magazine covers. Offscreen, he dated co-star Rachel Bilson for three years.
Brody returned to TV in 2011 to lend his voice to the animated series "Good Vibes." In 2012, he played Keira Knightley's ex in "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World." This year, he's been busy in the indie-film world with two movies recently released -- "Lovelace" and "Some Girl(s)" -- and three more due out by the end of the year. You can also catch him on Yahoo! Screen's series "Burning Love."
Peter Gallagher (Sandy Cohen)
For four seasons on "The O.C.," Peter Gallagher played the Newport Beach patriarch Sandy Cohen -- lawyer, public defender, and father to Seth, Ryan, and Sophie.
After the series ended, Gallagher appeared in several feature films, and in 2012, he played dad to Kathryn McCormick's ("So You Think You Can Dance") character in "Step Up Revolution." On the small screen, he's had story arcs on "Californication" and "Rescue Me." Gallagher's also done guest spots on "Shark," "Whitney," and "How I Met Your Mother." For the last few years, he's played Arthur Campbell, director of clandestine services at the CIA, on "Covert Affairs."
Kelly Rowan (Kirsten Cohen)
Kelly Rowan won a Prism Award in 2006 for playing Kirsten Cohen, the recovering-alcoholic mother of Seth and wife to Sandy, on "The O.C."
When the Newport Beach gang parted ways, Rowan worked on a series of TV movies both on camera and behind the scenes, and in 2011, she starred alongside Emily Osment, Kay Panabaker, and Meaghan Rath in the ABC Family TV movie "Cyberbully." Most recently, she began playing Eric McCormack's ghostly love interest Natalie Vincent on the TNT drama "Perception." The series premiered in July 2012, and Season 2 is set to start up in the summer of 2013.
Melinda Clarke (Julie Cooper)
Melinda Clarke portrayed Marissa Cooper's catfight-loving mom, Julie, long before Bravo's reality "Housewives" franchise made socialite backstabbing popular.
After "The O.C.," Clarke was cast in recurring roles on "Eli Stone" and "The Vampire Diaries." She also continued to pop up on "CSI" and "Entourage" (roles she had during her "O.C." run). She returned to her manipulative-character ways when she signed on to portray Amanda on "Nikita" in 2010. As recent series developments have indicated, the former "head of division" just might be the person to take Nikita down.
Chris Carmack (Luke Ward)
Before Chris Carmack signed on to play hunky jock Luke Ward on "The O.C.," he was already well known for his sun-kissed good looks; he had modeled for brands like Abercrombie & Fitch and Guess years earlier.
Post-"O.C.," he was a regular on the short-lived WB series "Related." Now he's giving the small screen another shot with a six-episode arc on "Nashville" as Charlotte and Gunner's new country-music-singing neighbor. According to reports, if the show comes back for a second season, he'll remain a part of the drama. Also, his new thriller "Dark Power" is set to hit theaters in 2013.
Autumn Reeser (Taylor Townsend)
Autumn Reeser first joined the cast of "The O.C." as overachieving socialite Taylor Townsend in Season 3. She became a series regular in Season 4 when Mischa Barton left the show.
After "The O.C." ended, Reeser hit some rough patches, joining the cast of the short-lived sitcom "Valentine" and the film "The Lost Boys: The Tribe," which went straight to DVD. She bounced back in 2009, when she was cast as Lizzy on HBO's "Entourage." After some TV guest spots, she landed a role in the military drama "Last Resort" -- which was recently canceled after 13 episodes.
Shailene Woodley (Kaitlin Cooper)
Shailene Woodley played the original Kaitlin Cooper; Willa Holland took over the role for the final two seasons. Woodley portrayed George Clooney's oldest daughter, Alexandra King, in the Oscar-winning movie "The Descendants." She's also filming "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" with Andrew Garfield.
Chris Brown (Will Tutt)
Yes, that Chris Brown. Brown has pursued an acting career over the years, beginning with three episodes of "The O.C." playing Will Tutt, a band geek who briefly dated Kaitlin.
After the show, Brown appeared in the film "Stomp the Yard," and this fall, he will star in "Battle of the Year: The Dream Team."
Despite the scattering of acting roles, Brown is better known for his music career. He received two Grammy nods for his 2007 album "Exclusive," but the celebration turned to tragedy when he pled guilty to assaulting his girlfriend, singer Rihanna. He is currently serving five years' probation. Now, Rihanna and Brown seem to an off-agian/on-again relationship, and his music career is rebounding. The release of his sixth album, "X," will be a good indicator of whether all is forgiven.
Cristiano Ronaldo clearly enjoys nothing more than mixing it with the biggest names in the music business after catching up with pop star Rihanna backstage at her concert in Lisbon. The Real Madrid forward met British band One Direction at the Spanish club's training ground last week before flying to his native Portugal to watch Rihanna - whose hits include Only Girl in the World and Umbrella - perform on the latest leg of her tour. Madrid complete their La Liga season against Osasuna on Saturday - it will be manager Jose Mourinho's final game in charge before he re-joins Chelsea.
Valar Morghulis. It means “All men must die,” in HBO’s “Game of Thrones”’ fictional language of High Valyrian.
Jaime Lannister, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, is hoping that reality comes sooner than later for him right about now.
When we first met the eldest Lannister son, also known as “the Kingslayer,” he seemed tailor-made to earn the audience’s hatred. In the April 2011 series premiere, Jaime Lannister was gorgeous, arrogant and wealthy. He’d accompanied his twin sister and lover, Queen Cersei Lannister Baratheon (Lena Headey) and her husband, King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy), to pay a visit to Ned Stark (Sean Bean) in his Northern fortress of Winterfell.
While at Winterfell, Jaime and Cersei stole away to a deserted part of the upper castle for some alone time, but were spied by one of the younger Starks, Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright), who had climbed up the castle wall to see what he could see. To keep their secret, Jaime pushed Bran off the wall. In that episode’s shocking end, which set the audience up for many other shocks as the series has gone on, Bran plunged to the earth. Jaime intended for him to die — thus assuring that the twins’ secret was safe — but Bran managed to live, though paralyzed.
Little did we know then that Jaime also was headed for quite a fall.
“I did know from the beginning where the show was headed, and I think that was important, at least for me, so I could find the balance in playing him,” says Coster-Waldau. “I thought it was wonderful to start at that extreme place. Since then, I’ve had a lot of ground to cover.” You may not have heard of him, but Coster-Waldau, who is Danish, is an acting vet. At 42, he’s married with two children and has been working around the world since his early 20s. This year alone, he’s starred in Guilllermo del Toro’s “Mama” with Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain and co-starred with Tom Cruise in “Oblivion,” which has racked up nearly a quarter of a billion dollars at the global box office. He’s currently shooting, “The Other Woman,” with Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Kinney and Kate Upton.
While Coster-Waldau, like Headey, exactly embodies the golden Lannister visage described by George R.R. Martin in the novels on which the TV show is based, his physical beauty has quickly become irrelevant. He spent most of Season 2 chained in a cage — even on the actor’s actual birthday, July 27 — or being dragged on the ground being kicked and shoved by extras. Things haven’t improved much in Season 3.
Although Jaime managed to escape his Stark captors, who are at war with the Lannisters, and begin the journey back to his family in King’s Landing, accompanied by the she-warrior Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie), his hope of freedom came to a screeching halt when he was recaptured by one of Robb Stark’s bannermen, Locke. After he talked Locke’s men out of raping Brienne, they repaid Jaime’s sense of justice by chopping off his sword hand. As the most famous knight in the realm, that’s a cut Jaime’s having a hard time coping with.
“I actually see him as quite an honorable man,” says Coster-Waldau, although that’s hard to see from the point of view of the series’ first episode. “Although, I think if he was told that he could have either saved Brienne or saved his sword hand, I think he would have just told those men, ‘Be gentle with her,’ and shut up.”
Jaime’s relationship with Brienne, who is a tall and imposing fighter herself, has turned into an unlikely alliance but a pivotal moment awaits both characters. While Jaime’s incestuous relationship with Cersei is considered as morally taboo in the made-up land of Westeros as it is in modern society, Cersei is the only woman Jaime has ever loved or been with. The same certainly cannot be said for Cersei.
Jaime isn’t in love with Brienne — who herself loved the now dead (and gay) Renly Baratheon, brother of King Robert — but he’s found a kindred spirit in her.
“It’s been the first time he’s been forced to spend time with someone outside of his family,” says Coster-Waldau. “After he meets someone who’s so honorable, just and trustworthy, it does remind him of himself.”
Besides the horrific scene of Jaime losing his hand, Coster-Waldau also got to play a crowning moment in Jaime’s story this season, in which he confesses to Brienne the true story of how he earned his “Kingslayer” title.
The story is complicated, but suffice to say that Jaime killed the king he had sworn to serve because that king had gone insane and was about to commit mass genocide. While that may have been a noble act, from that day on everyone thought Jaime did it solely to claim power for his own power-hungry family. “It was the right thing to do, but he’s been vilified for it,” says Coster-Waldau.
While it’s been a tough season for Jaime Lannister, it’s been a great one for Coster-Waldau as far as drama is concerned: “I was always hoping the show would make it that far,” he says. “I knew that confession scene would come up and that it would be a high point of the season.”
The lesson of Jaime Lannister is “don’t judge a book by its cover,” he says. “That’s what’s so interesting about any of the characters in this show really. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens further down the road with some of the characters who you currently think are the good guys. People in this show change.”
For example, a reunion with Cersei is in his immediate future, and “Jaime’s a different man now,” says Coster-Waldau.
And as we’ve seen — with the beheading of Ned Stark in Season 1, the death of Renly Baratheon in Season 2, and the loss of Jaime’s hand this season — no character, no matter how major, is safe on “Game of Thrones.”
SOURCE this interview hasn't been posted mods and i fixed the source. also while i love jaime can i say that i am so tired of people woobifying him, the comparisons to sansa on tumblr are especially ridiculous. i wish more people could realize that jaime's ac from asos-adwd is a an ~self acceptance~ arc not a redemption arc ugh
Like I said on Instagram the other day, a girl can never have too many leather-jackets, which explains this… Hunkydory’s biker jacket has haunted my mind for several months and the other day I decided to finally click the buy-button. Got it two days later and have been wearing it ever since. We were indeed meant to be. In love? Get it here.
Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock Holmes star is bear-ly recognisable as he films new series as detective
Who's this under a guardsman’s bearskin hat? Actually, it’s elementary my dear Watson – anyone could spot Sherlock Holmes in that disguise.
These Sunday People pictures show actor Benedict Cumberbatch looking like he had the Hound of the Baskervilles on his head this week as he filmed his third series featuring the legendary detective.
Benedict, 36, was assisted by real soldiers as he shot scenes at Apsley House, the former London home of the Duke of Wellington.
At ease: Benedict chats to guards
The house, known today as Number One, London, is near Hyde Park and just a few miles from Baker Street, Holmes’ HQ in the famous mystery tales.
Benedict, who has also starred in blockbuster movies including War Horse, has been filming the new Holmes series for the BBC since March, to be screened later this year.
He said: “I think they’re talking about the winter to show it. Around Christmas, but I’m not quite sure when.”
At least this scene is far less daring than one episode in which Benedict was spotted leaping from the roof of St Bart’s hospital in London in front of arch-enemy Professor Moriarty.
He recently said of Holmes: “His appeal is universal. He’s the ultimate outsider hero. He’s a very difficult, odd entity.
“He’s got a God complex. He suspects he’s not human and therefore everyone else is just a let-down to him.”
I don't know if its his talent or his voice or the fact I have been working in England for the past 9 months or the fact he kinda reminds me of my boyfriend but I have come to actually like this guy.
Confession: my best friend is a Sherlock Holmes superfan. She has merch. She’s read all the books. She’s written a cycle of (really great) poems based on his legend. I, meanwhile, have read a few of the adventures, seen a few of the Granada episodes, and find Sherlock in all his incarnations — as Robert Downey Jr., as Benedict Cumberbatch, as Johnny Lee Miller — mightily cute. Earlier this year, I was the Watson to my friend’s Holmes at a Sherlock Holmes charity ball, where I met several other superfans. No one had very nice things to say about Elementary.
In fact, most of the people we met at the ball, though able to spout off trivia about everything from the strictly canonical stories to films new and old to the BBC series, hadn't even bothered to watch very much of CBS’s modern-day adaptation. “It’s not that it’s a bad show,” one girl told me. “It’s just not Holmes.” Any Holmesian purist could be forgiven for such a feeling: Holmes is a junkie! Watson is a girl! When I forced my friend to watch the first episode, she wasn't convinced to change her mind. She found Elementary‘s Holmes to be too broken, too embittered, too emotional on all fronts to be any Holmes she recognized.
And, he is. But perhaps that is a more faithful adaptation of Holmes’s psyche than it seems. In the other new modern adaptation, BBC’s Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch plays the famous detective as almost cruelly cold, playing up the hint of Asperger's that has long been identified in Arthur Conan Doyle’s characterization. But in Elementary, Holmes has suffered from his unique mind, and that, at least to this viewer, makes perfect sense.
In the season one finale, when Moriarty (this is a whole other essay, but I actually don’t hate this majorly anti-canon plot twist as much as I thought I did; at least it gives Irene some actual, serious agency, and turns the finale into a war between two genius women, with Sherlock rolling around in pain. Not canon, but good television) leans over Holmes’ hospital bed, she tells him that she understands why he’s an addict: because his mental sensitivities, the qualities that make him such a great detective, also leave him in near-constant pain. She may be the villain, but she’s right. What kind of space is there, in a modern world, for someone like Sherlock Holmes? It’s easy to see how someone whose mind is constantly spinning, constantly noticing, constantly drawing connections might feel overloaded by the world and turn to drugs, might be twitchy and tortured and desirous of quelling his many needs in untoward fashions. I think the modern Holmes of Elementary is much more realistic than the modern Holmes of Sherlock; being alive is messy and awkward and difficult, especially if you’re different from everyone else. Cumberbatch's Holmes is a fantasy — a great one, like Doyle’s. Miller’s Holmes might live down the street.
So while Elementary doesn't feel any need to stick to the canonical stories (though there are some sweet Easter Eggs for those superfans, mostly bee-related) it’s a smart police procedural with good female characters and a believable adaptation of one of the most singular characters of all time. If you love Holmes enough to go to a costume ball in his honor, you should think about giving it another chance.
Summer must-haves: crop top / bralette (perfect with anything high waisted) and earrings with a mid/southern american vibe. Both from H&M.
Tässä pari pakkohankintaa kesää varten: bralette / toppi (täydellinen minkä tahansa korkeavyötäröisen kanssa) ja korvikset Etelä-Amerikka viboilla. Molemmat H&M:ltä.
A Fitness Hut, cadeia de ginásios low cost, ultrapassou a barreira dos 20 mil sócios. O número está dentro das expectativas da marca iniciada há dois anos.
A Fitness Hut tem cinco clubes abertos: um no Porto (Trindade) e quatro em Lisboa (Amoreiras, Arco do Cego, Cascais e Odivelas).
Em 2013, a marca pretende abrir dois novos clubes, segundo entrevista recente dada por um dos seus investidores à Vida Económica.
verdades mas o auge do estilo era quando tinha o Alexander Skarsgård ao lado.
Today’s post is dedicated to this american actress. Enjoy her style through all these inspirational pictures! What do you think about her?
… El post de hoy está dedicado a Kate Wosborth. Un repaso por el estilo de esta actriz estadounidense a lo largo de más de 70 fotografías. ¿Qué os parece?
Every year I try to delay buying any swimwear as much as I can, but I end up missing the ones I really like. Something you wear ocassionaly for 3 months a year only does not seem like a priority and I always end up focusing on footwear or sunglasses. This year though I decided I would change that and hopefully get at least one good swimsuit. Unfortunately I usually don’t find what I like in stores so shopping online is a much better alternative. It is tricky though because I find swimwear is something you really need to try first! Since I already have a lovely one piece I went with a bikini this time to have some variety. I actually got the first bikini by 3.1 Phillip Lim. I actually love the simple design and it’s my favorite color so hopefully it’s a keeper.
Browsing online this is my selection of the best pieces available:
Bikinis: 1.navy by 3.1 Phillip Lim 2. high waisted by Rachel Comey 3. striped bikini Norma Kamali
One Piece: 1. striped by J Crew, 2. navy blue by Lanvin, 3.flower print by Bottega Venetta
tudo bom e aquela t'shirt do John Maus a rockar <3
You were right, there is a trend going on . . .
the addition of the leopard makes this my favorite look. . .
This isn't a look exclusive to women . . . This dude is rocking the white head to toe, well, i guess we can't see what he's got on his feet.
And couples look cool doing it too. No wait, scratch that. CHLOE SEVIGNY and suspender clad hottie look cool doing it. . . you and your man/woman probably won't. sorry.
Summer is in the air! I felt like throwing an all-day-and-night-party this weekend. The theme was rosé premiere! I don’t know how we did but we managed to be over 30 people in my tiny apartment for about 12 hours… Here’s the fest – enjoy!
Karolina & me
love pills
Carro E came and she had pink gift her, tada!
suddenly everybody came
time for food and cupcakes
cheers!
pretty Karolina
Emma!
Viggy & Marie came by
me, Marie-Louise & Henrik
I’m cracking up…
Erik’s duck face
can I just eat you two?
Bea & Aline was here
decoration
Emma, Joel & Christian takes what left to sit on (window)
Josefine & moi loving the summer night
I never wanted the evening to end, but as always all good has to come to an end…
Now time for bed! Hope you had a great wknd too, bisou!
With the possible exception of the bear she battled, it's tough to think of a performer on Game of Thrones more perfect for the part they're playing than Gwendoline Christie as the towering, glowering Brienne of Tarth. At 6'3", she captures the sword-wielding maiden's imposing physicality. But it's her willingness to totally ditch the sex appeal and glamour of virtually every other character on the show and embody Brienne's lonely life as an outcast, clinging to a moral code it often seems she alone upholds, that makes her a justified fan favorite. To hear Christie tell it, Brienne's recent experiences with Jaime Lannister (played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) are opening up new paths of exploration in a part she's been dying to play since before she even knew it existed.
This is the first time I've interviewed an actor who moved me to tears in the last thing I saw them in. Wow, was it that bad? [Laughs] No, I'm really touched. What was it?
When you said "Goodbye, Ser Jaime." I'm really, really, deeply touched, I really am, because it's marvelous to hear when your work touches someone. But it's so much more than me – it's the writers, it's the writing, it's the director, it's the cinematography, and it's the brilliance of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
A lot of the impact came from seeing Brienne treat a person with kindness who's not used to being treated that way, but it's also that in doing so, she was letting her own guard down. In that moment, she recognizes him as a man rather than a monster. I'm so pleased that that came across, that she wants to give him the respect that she feels that he deserves, to be recognized as a man and worthy of the title of "Ser" as well. I don't think he's experienced that for a very long time.
Brienne is very focused on a moral code, on the good of the world around her and what is right. But in their bathtub scene, she recognizes his humanity, and his own struggle with what it is to be honorable. She's also seeing something of him in her – she's seeing his striving for the good of all, to an extent. It's a revelatory moment. It really expands Brienne's mind, shows her not to regard everything as being quite so black and white. We start to see the complexity of a person's mind developing.
Nikolaj described Jaime's time with Brienne in much the same way. She's shown him something outside the closed systems of the Lannisters and the Kingsguard. They're quite similar people in terms of their psychology and their lives. They found a kind of symmetry, somehow. A kinship. Brienne has certainly never had a relationship with a man like Jamie. I mean, in terms of physical proximity and what they share emotionally, this is the closest she's ever been with any man that she's not been related to certainly, but probably with any man, full stop. For the pair of them, there's a moment of enormous expansion where everything they've regarded as normal and set in stone prior is changed, and there's a multitude of possiblities.
Is romance one of those possibilities? Do I think they will get together? [Laughs] I mean, it's very . . . The world of Game of Thrones, the world that George R.R. Martin has created and that Dan [Weiss] and David [Benioff]'s translation adapts brilliantly, is a world that's never straightforward. I genuinely have moments of absolutely no idea. I don't even know if I want them to, because what they're experiencing is a bond that is quite unusual and quite pure bond. He did come back and save her life, which is enormous. I think it makes us examine a lot of possibilities and angles of what love is, and what love makes us capable of.
And Brienne is a virgin and Jamie has only slept with his sister, so . . . [Laughs]. We're looking at two highly unusual individuals. I don't think that anyone genuinely can predict the way in which their relationship will go in any regard. Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.
I enjoy asking these questions about shipping, because it's absolutely one of the pleasures of fiction. But I worry that it flattens the range of intimacy that is available to human beings. To force it all into a romantic or sexual framework is to deny a lot of human experience. Yeah. But at the same time, we wll want to see the impossible actually happen, to see these two extraordinary characters reach that amazing stage. Everyone's a sucker for some love and romance and whatever that may bring. But with those two? Lord knows. [Laughs] I mean, he couldn't even say goodbye to her! He just kind of nods and looks at the floor and leaves. If anything, it's the virgin that's making great strides. [Laughs]
You've spoken very frankly about how your unusual height has affected your life, and some of your modeling work seems to touch on this as well – taking ownership of your physical body. Brienne has struggled with her physicality as well. She's gone a different road, obviously – she's a warrior, not an actor – but I wonder if you see overlap between her and yourself. Absolutely. That's why I wanted to play the part so much. I never thought I'd ever come across a part like this. I was always told about this in drama school, that occasionally you might come across a part where you say, "Yeah, I know that. I know it. I don't have to pretend to try and get there. I know this." As soon as I read about the character, I had to play it.
And it's a character that we don't see that often. I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, "Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant." They describe it to me like outsiders. It sounds a bit worthy, but I genuinely feel that as an actor part of my job is to highlight those recesses of human life and human psychology that we don't see that often. And if I have the opportunity, which I very luckily have, to play the part of an outsider, then I felt like I might be doing some good. Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling.
An additional wrinkle for Brienne is that she's pretty much universally seen as ugly. When you're made up to look that way, when you change your hair and your demeanor and your physicality to look that way, does it change how you feel? Yeah, totally. As a woman, we all want to feel attractive. We all want to feel that we're making the very best of ourselves so we can accept ourselves. It's like all of these gorgeous, devastatingly beautiful actresses in the show, and then there's me harrumphing around. [Laughs] So it can be tough to look like that.
But you have to step outside of that and think about what these things really mean. I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. I hope that it makes us examine exactly what "unattractive" is. Perhaps it's not the conventions that we have or the blueprint in our minds. And if it makes people question for a minute what unattractive is, and the way in which we may respond as people to what we think unattractive is, then it's worthwhile.
I ship Jaime/Brienne with the passion of a thousand suns, but I can definitely appreciate what she and the interviewer say about shipping sometimes taking other emotions outside of a romantic context for granted. regardless of whether they get together in canon, I think Jaime and Brienne have one of the best (platonic) relationships in the series and seeing that develop was my favorite part of ASOS. <3
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Summer is in the air! I felt like throwing an all-day-and-night-party this weekend. The theme was rosé premiere! I don’t know how we did but we managed to be over 30 people in my tiny apartment for about 12 hours… Here’s the fest – enjoy!
