Hannah Waddingham reveals Game of Thrones waterboarding scene gave her chronic claustrophobia
Hannah Waddingham has revealed she left 'Game of Thrones' with "chronic claustrophobia". The 49-year-old actress - who played Septa Unella for eight episodes of the hit HBO fantasy show - had to be “strapped to a table with all these leather straps” for 10 hours of waterboarding and had grape juice thrown at her, which turned her hair purple, and the stunt left her with trauma. Waterboarding is a torture method of causing a person to suffer a physical and psychological sensation similar to that of drowning by strapping them head-down on a sloping board with the mouth and nose covered while wat...