There have been many moments where Game of Thrones has left viewers of the series traumatized. From the Red Wedding to the confrontation between The Mountain and Oberyn Martell, HBO's production has been extremely explicit when necessary. However, this has caused more than one problem for some cast members.
In an interview with the American program The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the actress Hannah Waddinghamwho played Septa Unella in the later seasons, claims that she developed chronic claustrophobia after filming one of her final scenes in the series, specifically the sequence in which Cersei tortures her as revenge.
“Game of Thrones gave me something I didn't expect, which was chronic claustrophobia. It was horrible. Ten hours of being subjected to waterboarding torture. I was tied to a table with all these leather straps. I couldn't lift my head because “I thought it would be too obvious that it was loose.”
The actress reveals that even Lena Headey, who played Cersei, felt pretty bad when he started throwing liters and liters of liquid in her face and saw that she was suffering a lot. But in the end, Waddingham knew what she was getting at and explained that Game of Thrones He played on another level in every way, so he endured and left one of the most distressing scenes in the entire series.
Luckily, it seems that he has managed to handle this problem, so let's hope that in the long term he can slowly recover from this trauma. And she is not the only person in the cast who has suffered problems due to the series; Several months ago, Pedro Pascal revealed that he ended up suffering an eye infection after taking photos with fans who wanted to recreate his death in the series.
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