Before Ted Lasso, Hannah Waddingham Played A Game Of Thrones Villain
Years before her Ted Lasso role as Rebecca Welton, Hannah Waddingham played a disturbing and unforgettable villain on HBO's Game of Thrones.
Prior to her portrayal of Ted Lasso's Rebecca Welton, actress Hannah Waddingham played a notorious Game of Thrones villain: Septa Unella. Waddingham's role as Unella, a nun tasked with torturing Queen Cersei Lannister, solidified her reputation as a powerful TV antagonist. Unella's psychological torment of Cersei, including forcing her to walk naked through the streets, earned her a place among Game of Thrones' most memorable villains.
However, Unella's character ultimately met a grim fate, waterboarded with wine in the same dungeon as Cersei, after Cersei's revenge on the religious extremists in the Season 6 finale. Hannah Waddingham later revealed that the scene originally featured a brutal sexual assault, but was changed due to backlash from the Sansa Stark assault scene.
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