Game of Thronesstarted as a black , copious , captivating fantasy epic . Over the years , however , the show kept getting darker , particularly in regards to how ittreated its distaff characters , who seemed to increasingly bear the show’smost horrific , disturbing violence . Unfortunately , that also turn out to have been the compositor’s case on the other side of the photographic camera on at least one occasion .
speak withCollider ’s Ladies Night After Hours , actor Hannah Waddingham — who you may be more familiar with due to her more recent part in Ted Lasso — talk about her experience playing Septa Unella , a appendage of the rage - like church building of the Seven who visit the bulk of miserableness Cersei ( Lena Headey ) get when she was imprisoned by the Sparrows . Septa Unella was also the one who sadistically enjoyed screaming “ Shame ! ” Shame ! ” as she forced the queen to take the air , nude , all the way to the Red Keep under the eyes of her subjects . Cersei being Cersei , there was no way Unella was not go to pay for the cruelty and indignity she heaped upon the pouf . When we next reckon her , in the season six closing curtain , “ The Winds of Winter , ” Unella was connect to a wooden table , and Cersei was pour pitchers of wine-colored onto the prisoner ’s brass .
I certainly usurp that there was some special effect involved so that Waddingham was n’t actually having liquid poured on her face for hour , over and over . I was incorrect and Waddingham had a portion to say about it . io9 has reached out for commentary from HBO and has not pick up a reply at fourth dimension of publication . We ’ll update if we find out back . [ Note : Before you go on , we need to bring up Waddingham give-up the ghost into large detail about her experience here and it ’s not easy to read . ]
Shame, indeed.Photo: HBO
speak to Collider , Waddingham explain what she went through like this : “ There I was strapped to a wooden table with right big strap for 10 hr . And definitely , other than childbirth , it was the worst day of my life . Because Lena was uncomfortable pouring liquid state in my font for that long , and I was beside myself . But in those minute you have to remember , do you dish out the piece and get on with it or do you chicken out and go , ‘ No , this is n’t what I signed up for , blah , blah , blah ? ’ And then , the funny matter was , after we ’d finish shooting it for the whole sidereal day , and people like Miguel Sapochnik , the theater director by the way , walking past with a cup of tea and a sandwich on - the - go and buy the farm , ‘ Hi , honey , you all proper ? ’ And I was like , ‘ Not really . ’ ‘ The crew have just been say we are actually really waterboarding you here . ’ And I was like , ‘ Yup , you do n’t postulate to secernate me that ! ’ ”
Did instalment director Miguel Sapochnik really not know what was being done to Waddingham ? Because it seems like someone should have known and put a stop to it . There were , unsurprisingly , physical ramification to getting genuinely tortured : “ I could barely speak because I had been screaming through the Mountain ’s hired man , which is quite frightening as a singer to completely mislay your voice , so I had no vocalisation at all to barely whisper , bruises already coming up like I had been assail and I was like , ‘ I ’ve basically just been waterboarded for 10 hour . ”
And there were other consequences , too : “ I had n’t even realized that it definitely give me claustrophobia around body of water . Definitely . I had n’t realise until I watched a program where the camera ’s down on the role player ’s face and they ’re being dipped into the water , but you see them font - up to the camera , and I got in a terrible panic about it . And I in reality fit and had a bit of a confabulation to somebody about it , because it ’s quite full - on being waterboarded for 10 hours , and then only one minute and 30 seconds can be used on camera . ”
Screenshot: HBO
Waddingham goes into more detail about her experiences film the scene over atCollider , very little of which is good ( although she is lofty of her work as an thespian ) . She did manage to clarify that the picture was to begin with planned to be even more outrageous than what we ended up seeing on screen , as it was supposed to end with undead dub the Mountain ( Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson ) despoil Unella , continue Game of Thrones ’ lurid obsession with show women get sexually assaulted . Waddingham credits thepublic uproaroverSansa ’s rape scenein time of year five with the modification .
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FictionGame of ThronesLena HeadeyTed LassoTelevision seriesThe wind of wintertime
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