Game of Thrones star Hannah Waddingham says she now suffers from chronic claustrophobia after being waterboarded for 10 hours while filming.
The famous actress detailed her intense experience April 2nd episode On “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” she continued to describe the scene, “‘Thrones’ gave me something I didn’t expect: chronic claustrophobia.” did. “[I had] 10 hours of actual waterboarding, like actually being waterboarded.I’m on my way home and I’m in the elevator in these fancy pants and my hair is already bleached and dead [but] My hair turned purple because I got grape juice on it. While I was screaming, Yama had his hand over my mouth, so I couldn’t speak, and there were scars from the straps all over my body, as if I had been attacked. ”
The 49-year-old actress spoke about what she went through for the hit TV series.
“So I’m strapped to the table with a leather strap and I couldn’t lift my head because they said it would be obvious that it was coming loose. And , I thought, “Yeah, I want those so bad.” ”
“I talked about it with David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the two executive producers of the film, and I was like, ‘Good for them, because it was terrible,'” she said. .
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Waddingham plays Septa Unella on the hit HBO series and said the show’s acclaimed cinematography involved incredible sacrifices from the actors involved.
“When the elevator door opened, one of the other guys who was filming something else said, ‘What’s going on?'” I told him everything, and he said, , ‘You’re lucky I only spent four days crawling on my elbows in poop’…but that doesn’t matter on Thrones,” she said. (Related: Director reveals the real reason Sidney Sweeney was screaming in pain with blood streaming down his face)
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“The reason I don’t believe it is [Game of Thrones] “It’s emotional, but it’s just on a different level in terms of filming the series, which involves actual waterboarding,” Waddingham told Colbert.
