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Gwendoline Christie has revealed that her role in Netflix’s Wednesday is the first time she’s ‘felt beautiful’ on screen.
Christie, 44, is best known for portraying Brienne of Tarth in the HBO blockbuster series Game of Thrones between 2012 and 2019.
She also played the First Order stormtrooper, Captain Phasma, in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) films.
In 2019, for her role in Game of Thrones, Christie earned herself a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
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In both Game of Thrones and Star Wars, Christie played tough, giant and stoic characters – largely due to her unusual 6ft 3-inch stature, for which she was once bullied at school.
Now, though, the actress has been able to enjoy a different kind of role as Principal Larissa Weems in The Addams Family spinoff, Wednesday.
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And she noted in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that it’s the first time she has ‘felt beautiful on screen’.
Christie revealed that Tim Burton, who partially directs the series, asked her to create the Larissa Weems role and all of her characteristics.
She recalled: “He said, ‘You can do whatever you like with the character, feel free to make it whatever you want and we’ll keep talking about it’.”
Having had a huge influence on the role, Christie explained what her time as Weems has meant to her on a personal level.
She said: “It is the first time I’ve ever felt beautiful on screen.
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“I cannot express my extreme gratitude more heartily to Tim and [costume designer] Colleen [Atwood] and our hair and makeup team.
“Colleen Atwood is rightfully a legend, and what she does is close to witchcraft in terms of transformation.”
In the first series of Wednesday, which premiered last week, Weems is a strict and protective principal.
It’s also revealed that she’s a ‘shifter’ – someone who can take the form of anyone or anything.
This, Christie says, was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock movies.
Christie explained: “What kept coming to me was this idea of this Hitchcock-style heroine, this screen siren, that maybe that young woman would look to our mystic portal, the cinema, to be an incarnation of her fantasies.”
She added that fortunately, Burton and Atwood ‘had exactly the same idea’ when it came to her character.
Wednesday is now available to stream in full on Netflix.
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