Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham says being waterboarded for 10 hours on Game of Thrones was the second worst day of her life

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Waddington tells Collider that originally the plan was for Cersei Lannister to punish her character, Unella, by having The Mountain rape her. “She was meant to be raped by The Mountain, and I think they’d had so many complaints about the rape of Sansa that they chose not to go with it," she says. In her waterboarding scene, Waddingham says there was no movie magic. "There I was strapped to a wooden table with proper big straps for ten hours," she says. "And definitely, other than childbirth, it was the worst day of my life. Because Lena was uncomfortable pouring liquid in my face for that long, and I was beside myself. But in those moments you have to think, do you serve the piece and get on with it or do you chicken out and go, ‘No, this isn’t what I signed up for, blah, blah, blah?’ And then, the funny thing was, after we’d finished shooting it for the whole day, and people like Miguel Sapochnik, the director by the way, walking past with a cup of tea and a sandwich on-the-go and going, ‘Hi hunny, you alright?’ And I was like, ‘Not really.’ ‘The crew have just been saying we are actually really waterboarding you here.’ And I was like, ‘Yup, you don’t need to tell me that!’”