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.

It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.

I like to be comfortable. And I don't like to have to worry about having to adjust things if things are too short; I don't want to feel self conscious, so I like to wear things that make me feel empowered.