They did a great job of making a beautiful woman look homely as hell for the show. And she did a great job not-being-pretty - sinking her chin in for turkey neck, gruff tone of voice. I always pictured book-Brienne to be a worn saddle looking lady. Gwendolyn got as close as she could.
She and Dinklage as Tyrion got the “Hollywood Homely” treatment — give a bad haircut or a small scar to an otherwise objectively beautiful person and act like they’re hideous in-universe.
Yeah Tyrion in the books is described as almost an abomination, then later picks up a battle wound that disfigures him horrifically. In the shows he starts off as "smouldering" then picks up a battle wound and becomes "smouldering with a scar".
Fr, in the books he pretty much gets his entire nose cut off in the Battle of the Blackwater, in the show he just gets a sexy scar across his face. Though I assume at least part of the reason for them changing it is because the prosthetics/CG would be more trouble than it's worth.
Honstly, I it is more powerful that he gets treated like shit because he has dwarfism and his mother died giving birth to him.
The public prejudice exists from gossip, and the hate of his father from mourning for his wife.
Almost like sisters, and siblings in general, will be asses to each other just to be asses. And Sansa was described as kind of always being a bitch to Arya.
Arya is an 'ugly duckling' who begins to grow into her beauty as the story progresses. Bran sees Lyanna as a girl and mistakes her for Arya at first suggesting that like her aunt so will become a great beauty. The 'Kindly Man' also suggests that a grown Arya with her intelligence and beauty could become a courtesan of great influence.
Is it like even allowed anymore to specifically cast somebody as ugly? I feel like that would cause an unfathomable amount of problems in the public eye.
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u/Agent847 14d ago
Brianne is depicted as hella-ugly in the books. Gwendolyn Christie is anything but ugly.