Septa Unella’s torture scene in the Year 6 finale of “Game of Thrones” was — for many Cersei Lannister admirers, at the very least — gratifying to check out.
But it was really traumatic to film, in accordance to Hannah Waddingham, who portrayed the oft-memed villain.
In the scene, Lannister (Lena Headey) exacts revenge on her tormentor by pouring wine on her face and demanding she confess her sins. Filming lasted for 10 hrs.
“‘Thrones’ gave me a little something I was not expecting from it, and that is persistent claustrophobia,” Waddingham mentioned throughout an appearance Tuesday on “The Late Clearly show With Stephen Colbert.”
Waddingham explained she was “actually waterboarded” while filming.
“It was horrific,” reported the “Ted Lasso” star. “I’m strapped to a table with all these leather straps and I could not carry up my head ’cause they said, ‘That’s likely to be as well clear that it is loose.’ And I was like, ‘Right, I’d rather like it to be unfastened.’”
The process was so brutal that, at one particular level, Headey purposely aimed her pour away from her co-star’s confront, she beforehand admitted to Company Insider.
Waddingham advised Colbert that the “Game of Thrones” cast’s commitment to this sort of grotesque scenes is “the cause why I don’t believe that it is touched still in conditions of the cinematography of it, for a sequence.”
“It’s just a diverse degree,” she explained, adding that throughout an elevator journey that day, she relevant her experience to a different actor who — on viewing her grape juice-stained hair and leather-based strap marks — questioned her concernedly, “What has occurred to you?”
After telling him about the ordeal, he replied, “Well, you are blessed, I’ve just been crawling by s— on my elbows for four days.”
“It form of doesn’t subject when you’re in ‘Thrones’ because you just want to give the greatest [performance],” Waddingham stated.
However the strap marks she sustained on the “Game of Thrones” established are extended long gone, the actor showed off some new fight scars through her Tuesday speak clearly show appearance — sustained on the set of her latest motion picture, “The Tumble Guy,” which will be introduced May 3.
Although filming a scene with a male co-star, she claimed, “I was complaining that, you know, just since I’m a lady does not signify I can’t get concerned with the shizzle,” she informed Colbert. “So I was like, ‘I would like to punch him, be sure to.’”
Waddingham known as the scars her “badge of honor.”
