Although Hannah Waddingham has extensive experience in TV, including on “Game of Thrones” and “Sex Education,” she’s found that TedLasso has completely changed her relationship with the camera. Emmys2021
Hannah Waddingham was convinced she wouldn’t get it. The British actress loved the idea of a comedy about the human condition set in the world of English football, but she just assumed the creators would want someone more recognizable.
Waddingham, who admits she is not really a fan of soccer , embraced Rebecca from the moment she was cast, convinced that although the character was initially presented as an antagonist, she needed to be understood by the audience. It was important to the actress that Rebecca be as complicated and genuinely human as possible.“I wanted people to understand from that very first scene that just because she stands tall and she stands strong, she’s not,” Waddingham remembers.
Although Waddingham has extensive experience in TV, including on “Game of Thrones” and “Sex Education,” she’s found that“Ever since I started playing roles like Septa Unella on ‘Game of Thrones’ — you couldn’t get a more raw-looking, grim mess — I learned to enjoy letting the camera in,” the actress says. “Even if the character is glamorous, like Rebecca is, I enjoy the moments when the façade comes down.
“It would be very easy for them to have written her as having her epiphany that she doesn’t need to feel these things about [her ex-husband] Rupert anymore and that she can stand on her own two feet and that the people she has around her now are far more worthy of her energy than he was,” Waddingham notes. “I wanted to make sure that we’re still seeing her flaws and misgivings and wobbles.
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