Hannah Waddingham, who played Septa Unella in Game of Thrones, opens up about the physical toll of filming. Other actors also share their challenges with the fantasy drama.
‘I had strap marks all over me like I’d been attacked’ … Hannah Waddingham as Septa Unella in Game of Thrones.
Photograph: Home Box Office /2015 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO® and all related programs are the property of Home Box Office, IncThe actor, who has said that ‘the worst day of my life’ saw grape juice being poured onto her face for 10 hours, isn’t the only star who has issues with the fantasy drama
Both Kit Harington and Maisie Williams have questioned the show’s ending, not least the fact that Williams’s character kills the Night King more or less out of the blue. “He couldn’t have been that bad when some 100lb girl comes in and stabs him,” Williams said at the time, while Harington opted for a more concise: “I was pissed that it wasn’t me killing the Night King.” More seriously, Emilia Clarke has spoken about how she felt pressured into filming nude scenes for the show.
After being asked if she did any of her own stunts on the show, Waddingham said that the show once required her to undergo “ten hours of being actually waterboarded”.“I’m strapped to a table with all these leather straps,” she told Colbert of the scene where Cersei ties her down and repeatedly pours wine on her face. “I couldn’t lift up my head because it would be too obvious that it was loose.
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