Hannah Waddingham opened up about her expertise on Recreation of Thrones, portraying Unella, one of many Septa of the Religion of the Seven who tortures Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) in season 5.
The Ted Lasso star stopped by The Late Present With Stephen Colbert to advertise The Fall Man. Whereas discussing if she did her personal stunts in her upcoming movie, which stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, the host requested about any stunts she could have carried out on the hit HBO sequence.
Following Unella’s torture of Cersei, the Excessive Sparrow permits the Lannister matriarch to return to her son’s facet however first, she should full a stroll of atonement bare from the Nice Sept of Baelor to the Crimson Hold as Unella shouts “Disgrace” at her the entire method. When Cersei regains her energy, she imprisons and tortures Waddingham’s character by waterboarding her with wine.
“Thrones gave me one thing I wasn’t anticipating from it, which was power claustrophobia,” Waddingham advised Stephen Colbert. “It was horrific. Ten hours of being really waterboarded. … Like really. I’m strapped to a desk with all these leather-based straps. I couldn’t carry up my head as a result of I mentioned that will be too apparent that it’s free.”
She defined when she left the set, her hair had been dyed purple from all of the grape juice used within the scene, and he or she couldn’t communicate as a result of the Mountain, aka Gregor Clegane, had his hand over her mouth whereas she was screaming throughout filming.
“I had strap marks all over the place like I had been attacked,” Waddingham continued. “One of many different guys who had been capturing one thing else was like, ‘What has occurred to you?’ And I advised him the whole lot, and he went, ‘You’re fortunate. I’ve simply been crawling by shit on my elbow for 4 days.’ And we have been laughing about how each of us are in Recreation of Thrones, and it type of doesn’t matter once you’re in Thrones. You simply wish to give the very best.”