Gwendoline Christie calls the scripts for Season 6 “truly brilliant”

Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth) is still on hype detail for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and she’s teasing Game of Thrones Season 6 along the way. At least in a recent interview with ComicBook.com, it was she who brought up Brienne, rather than the interviewer. Maybe Christie figures that, if it’s going to happen anyway, she might as well control the narrative. “I absolutely adore and love playing [Brienne of Tarth],” she said. Window open.

Naturally, she couldn’t reveal any direct spoilers, but she did deliver some high praise for Season 6. “I think the scripts for the new season of Game of Thrones are really, truly brilliant, and it is my absolute pleasure to be a part of it.”

This tracks with Christie’s earlier comments that Season 6 will be “more epic” than what’s come before. To Christie, at least, that’s a good thing.

Keep in mind that Christie has said that she only reads her parts of the scripts, so we might not want to take her comments as an endorsement of the season as a whole. However, a few other people close to the production have made similar comments, and the consensus seems to be that Season 6 will be more fast-moving than previous years. For instance, after getting a look at them months ago, Emilia Clarke said that the new season is “go, go, go,” and that she “[couldn’t] handle how sick some of [the scripts] are.”

"We’re just going to hit the audience with every episode, coming up with something more mental that the last. I can’t believe some of the twists in store."

Jeremy Podeswa, the director behind the controversial “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken,” has said that Season 6 is going to get right into the thick of things (he’ll be directing the first and second episodes of the year). “We just get right into the story, and it’s very propulsive narratively—the whole season is—and it’s heading towards a destination that is very exciting.”

So it looks like we’re in for a high-octane year. I can see this being good or bad news, depending on your point of view. On the one hand, epic moments are epic. Set up properly, scenes like Joffrey’s wedding or the Massacre at Hardhome can be memorable, series-defining scenes. On the other hand, the idea of a whole season constructed out of epic moments sounds a bit exhausting. The litany of epic scenes in the fifth season finale—Stannis’ defeat to Arya’s blindness to Cersei’s walk to Jon Snow’s murder—left me feeling stretched a little thin, and I hope the writers have tempered the epic scenes with some slower, moodier stuff.

Still, it’s great to see cast members so enthusiastic. With filming wrapping up this week, we’re about to enter that time of the year when HBO starts hyping the coming year, and then Season 6 will be here before we know it.

h/t Deadline