Game of Thrones: Actress says she was waterboarded during torture scene

Some folks wish to assume that it’s important to undergo in your artwork, however ought to that artistic course of contain literal torture? Just lately whereas showing as a visitor on Collider Ladies Night, Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham revealed that she was waterboarded for upward of 10 hours whereas filming a scene for HBO’s Sport of Thrones.

Waddingham performed the spiritual zealot Septa Unella (aka the “disgrace” nun) in seasons 5 and 6, and in line with her story, engaged in a real-life torture scene for the epic collection. Throughout her interview, Waddingham defined that the unique scene concerned her character being raped by Gregor Clegane, a.ok.a The Mountain. Nevertheless, Sport of Thrones had already been criticized for its extreme rape scenes, so that they discovered one other option to make Septa Unella undergo.

“I feel they’d had so many complaints concerning the rape of Sansa [Sophie Turner] that they selected to not go together with it,” Waddingham stated. “Unbelievably, they modified it fairly on the final minute. I feel they presumably modified it once I was mid-air flying to Belfast as a result of all of the sudden I received despatched these new sides that stated I would want a wetsuit high. I believed they’d despatched me the incorrect bits.”

Sadly, as soon as Waddingham had arrived on set, she shortly realized that the scene hadn’t been rewritten.

“They have been like, ‘Oh, it will be waterboarding as an alternative,'” she recalled. “And I used to be like, ‘However we’re not truly doing waterboarding.’ And so they have been like, ‘No, no, no, we’re.'”

For the scene, Waddingham says she was sure to a picket desk with “correct massive straps” for hours as Cersei (Lena Headey), poured wine onto her face. “Positively aside from childbirth, [it] was the worst day of my life,” she stated. “Lena was uncomfortable pouring liquid in my face for that lengthy, and I used to be beside myself. However in these moments, you go, ‘Do you serve the piece and get on with it?’ Or do you hen out and go, ‘This is not what I signed up for.'”

Including to the fear of this case, Waddingham says she was unable to talk above a whisper later that night and had “bruises already arising like I might been attacked.” To make issues even worse, the expertise caught along with her lengthy after filming. “It positively gave me claustrophobia round water,” she stated. “It is fairly full-on being waterboarded for 10 hours — after which, for just one minute and 37 seconds for use on digicam.”

At this level, you is likely to be asking your self, how does one thing like this occur? Evidently, all of it comes right down to authenticity and going above and past to promote Cersei’s hatred to audiences. “I did not need the strap tight round my neck, however as they identified if the digicam can see you lifting your head to avoid wasting your self, that is not genuine,” Waddingham recollects. “As Dan Weiss identified, he got here up and stated, ‘Look, within the script it says Cersei empties the rest of her glass of crimson wine to get up Unella. Individuals aren’t going to assume that is sufficient. That isn’t sufficient retribution for Cersei. It must be three-quarters full or so — if we will cheat it, much more — of a carafe of wine.’ The one factor I stored considering to myself was the manufacturing firm is not going to allow you to die, so get on with it, be uncomfortable.”

What do you make of Waddingham’s story? Do you assume they went overboard or does Waddingham giving her consent make it okay? Tell us what you assume within the feedback part under.