The 10 Best Acted Scenes Of Game Of Thrones Season 8
3. Jaime Leaves Brienne Behind In Winterfell
While being a fan favourite, Gwendoline Christie’s acting as Brienne has often been restricted to stone-faced, rigid speech patterns to express her dedication to her knightly training and strict honouring of conduct. But here we see Brienne in a completely new light.
Having finally found happiness with Jaime after seasons of build-up, it’s snatched away from her in an instant, and she breaks down in a way that we never would expect to see from her character. As Brienne begs Jaime to love and stay with her in the dead of night without her armour, the gradual breaks in her voice only make it harder to accept that Jaime was never capable of breaking away from Cersei.
Her desperate pleas turn to howls of tears as he rides away forever, and her anguish keeps her eyes shut long enough for her to not even get a final look at him before he rides off into his death.