Since bursting onto our TV screens in 2020 as team owner Rebecca Welton on “Ted Lasso,” Hannah Waddingham has been on the fast track to where she should be, which is as many screens and stages as h…
“I actually quite like the fact that people still can’t believe that was me,” she says with a laugh. Her character, Septa Unella, sports a rough-hewn habit and a makeup-less face; it would be difficult to conceive a role more diametrically opposed to that of Rebecca.
Rebecca is still reeling from her years with Rupert , the billionaire ex-husband whose cruelty fueled her revenge-hire of Ted in the first season. It’s a subject the actress understands firsthand. “The show has to go there to allow us the luxury of having the funny moments,” she says. “I think that’s why it’s captured everyone’s heart, because you feel wrung out in every way. As life does.”
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