In a new interview, Game of Thrones‘ Michelle Fairley discusses playing Catelyn Stark, and offers some thoughts on why she hates Jon Snow and more. The interview is focused on her season 1 storylines, though she does speculate about the character’s future.
Michelle Fairley talks to DIY TV about how Catelyn changed in the first season, and says:
I don’t think she ever wants to be Queen or whatever, she’s quite happy to be the wife and the mother, that’s her main role. [But] she’s not a coward, she’s actually somebody who’s got all those qualities inside her but she’s never had to utilise them in that way until she’s on the way back from King’s Landing. Then she loses her husband, I think all of these different things which happen to her just add to her strength. The grief that she has for Ned is the energy she requires to keep going, to propel her forward to get revenge actually.
On Catelyn’s journey throughout the series, she says:
I think her journey’s fantastic, which I love actually. The heartbreaking thing about her is her one goal is to get her children back together again and that’s all she wants and she’ll do anything for that.
She also talks about Catelyn’s hatred of Jon, Ned’s bastard:
That’s one of the many aspects about Catelyn that I was fascinated by. She, on the surface, seems to be this incredibly loyal, honorable (woman) from a noble family who acts in the right way but the one thing she cannot control is this absolute hatred that she has for Jon Snow. She allows him to be in her family but it’s almost like it eats away at her and she can’t control it. She doesn’t take it out on Ned she displaces it entirely and takes it out on Jon Snow because it’s the whole thing of looking at Ned and seeing that he betrayed her. And it’s not being able to deal with that betrayal and the manifestation is Jon Snow.
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Read the full interview at DIY TV.
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