Hannah Waddingham REVEALS Trauma From Filming ‘Game of Thrones’ Waterboarding Scene E- News

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00:00 Thrones gave me something I wasn't expecting from it and that is chronic claustrophobia.

00:05 Hannah Waddingham shares she battled a difficult acting experience.

00:09 The Game of Thrones actress who appeared as Septa Eunella on seasons 5 and 6 of the hit

00:15 HBO series says there's one scene in the show that left her traumatized.

00:20 While on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert April 2nd,

00:23 she shared how filming the series gave her chronic claustrophobia.

00:26 And the Ted Lasso star reveals the specific scene in season 6 that spurred that fear.

00:32 Thrones gave me something I wasn't expecting from it and that is chronic claustrophobia.

00:37 10 hours of being actually waterboarded. Like actually waterboarded.

00:43 No because Thrones is such a, the reason why I don't believe it's touched yet in terms of

00:50 the cinematography of it for a series. It's just a different level.

00:53 With that comes actual waterboarding. So I'm strapped to a table with all these leather

01:01 straps and I couldn't lift up my head because I said that's going to be too obvious that it's

01:05 loose. I was like right, I'd quite like it to be loose. So I'm on my way back and I'm in this

01:11 sproncy fancy pants lift and I had purple, my hair's already bleached to death. I had grape

01:18 juice all in my hair so it went purple. I couldn't speak because the mountain had his hand over my

01:23 mouth while I was screaming and I had strap marks everywhere like I'd been attacked. And the lift

01:28 doors open, one of the other guys who'd been shooting something else was just like, what has

01:33 happened to you? And I told him everything and he went, well you're lucky I've just been crawling

01:38 through on my elbows for four days. We were laughing about the fact that both of us are in

01:42 Game of Thrones and it kind of doesn't matter when you're in Thrones because you just want to

01:46 sure give the best. While the experience had a lasting impact on her, she says it was all worth

01:51 it for this reason. I mean I've talked about it since with David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the two

01:56 exec producers on it. I was like good job it's for them because it was horrific. During an interview

02:01 with E! in February, Hannah spoke about who she would love to collaborate with in the future.

02:07 I would actually really like to collaborate in some way. I was talking about it's like I'd love

02:19 to do something with Carol Burnett, I really would. Yeah she's the real deal, I love her.

02:25 So her, but also myself and Sterling K. Brown presented the Earthshot Prize in Singapore

02:31 and we just hit it off immediately and I would love for he and I to do something. I've been

02:39 very spoiled with Ted because it's not a comedy, it's not a drama in my eyes. It just is its own

02:45 thing and scenes can ebb and flow and undulate from one thing to the other very easily. So I

02:51 would like, I'd love to find a piece with him because I just think he's just brilliant. But

02:58 in the meantime of course I have my fabulous collaboration with Octavia Spencer that takes

03:06 my breath away. So yeah, she's somebody that I need to pinch myself that I would have ever

03:14 had the opportunity to work with.