“Hannah Waddingham” It is reasonable to think that Game of Thrones ended considerably earlier, even though it concluded more than five years ago. Much of this may be ascribed to House of the Dragon, which is much more of a TV spin-off than that annoying person at the dinner party who never knows when to go home. This is partly because of the hilarious ineptitude of the Game of Thrones finale, which affected me like a blunt force trauma. Another cause is the performers’ incessant complaining about how horrible their time on the show was.
Kit Harington and Maisie Williams have both criticized the show’s ending, pointing out that Williams’s character kills the Night King almost abruptly. At the time, Williams said, “He couldn’t have been that bad when some 100-pound girl comes in and stabs him,” but Harington opted to say, “I was pissed that it wasn’t me killing the Night King.” More significantly, Emilia Clarke has talked about how she felt forced to record naked scenes for the show.
The singer is inclined to explore accepting the offer, an insider confirmed in an exclusive interview with The Mirror, saying, Hannah Waddingham would be an incredible signing for Strictly this year, and so far things are looking very positive.”
They asserted, giving an indication of her interest in the program: “She is eager to participate and loves the show. She has heard so much about it from Anton [Du Beke].” All that needs to be determined is if she can fit it into her calendar.
It’s a significant commitment, of course, and she is in high demand right now. The Strictly executives are aware that Hannah Waddingham would be a huge hit with fans as she quickly approaches the level of national treasure.
They came to the conclusion, “So they are doing everything they can to make it work on their side, and hoping that they can encourage her to sign on the dotted line—getting her on board would be a real coup for them.”
Now Hannah Waddingham has joined the fight. It’s easy to forget that she was Septa Unella in the first two seasons of Game of Thrones, even if she’s been quickly rising to the status of national treasure in the last few years because of her role on Ted Lasso and all of her almost endless performances since.
Even though her most well-known scene included her screaming the word “shame” and ringing a bell as Lena Headey’s Cersei Lannister was paraded through the streets in her underwear, it doesn’t seem like the role was easy. During an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Waddingham revealed that she had “chronic claustrophobia” due to a scene she shot for Game of Thrones.
Hannah Waddingham
When asked if she did any of the program’s stunts herself, Waddingham revealed that she once had to put up with “ten hours of being actually waterboarded.”
She told Colbert about the scene in which Cersei ties her up and pours wine all over her face, stating, “I’m strapped to a table with all these leather straps.”If I raised my head, it would be too obvious that it was loose. The Mountain covered my lips to keep me from screaming, my hair turned purple from the grape juice, and I had strap marks all over my body that looked like they had been from an attack.
Waddingham quickly transitioned from interrogating her at that point to a story about how much she swears, despite the fact that she had already discussed the subject, due to the unique format of late-night interviews in the US. In a video interview with Collider a few years earlier, she described the experience as “definitely, other than childbirth, the worst day of my life”.
Hannah Waddingham talks about the event and it’s intriguing to see because she is clearly bothered by it. She blasted the director for his insensitivity in the Collider interview, claimed she had to keep telling herself the production company wouldn’t let her die, said the scene made her feel claustrophobic near water, and brought up the fact that her 10-hour waterboarding session only took up ninety seconds of screen time. Waddingham seemed strangely upbeat about the entire experience in spite of all of this.
“Go ahead, feel uncomfortable…” When she talks about the experience at the end of the tape, she advises the viewers to “push yourself,” as if going through ten hours of agony would somehow make it easier for them to enjoy a very short scene involving a character whose significance to the show is so minimal that the majority of viewers wouldn’t even recognize her.
An intimacy coordinator would have been needed for a situation like this these days, and one who might have argued for Hannah Waddingham. It’s obvious that Game of Thrones, with its lengthy cast of vocally unhappy actors, is a product of its era.
