Few will be forgetting the Coronavirus pandemic any time soon.
Even better, it gave us breakout star Hannah Waddingham.
“I feel a real responsibility for women of a certain age,” she toldThe Times.
I’m actually quite glad.
People have gone, ‘Oh, wouldn’t it have been nicer if it had happened younger?’
We could all learn a lesson or two from the barrier-breaking star.
From British soaps to the Hollywood big leagues, let’s look at the complete evolution of Hannah Waddingham.
As such, a 9-5 job was never going to be her vibe.
Waddingham hails from a family of creatives: her mother and maternal grandparents were all professional opera singers.
“The force has always been strong … “Finding out some people’s parents worked in offices, I was like, ‘What do you mean?
Doesn’t everyone sing and dance for a living?'”
Making her stage debut in “Joni and Gina’s Wedding,” Waddingham started out in dinner theater.
She first faced discrimination as a child ballet dancer.
“The teacher was like, ‘Mr.
She also appeared on a show that served as a precursor of sorts to her most famous role.
Waddingham joined the series in 2005, playing Jools, the lover of soccer chairman Hazel.
“He had a struggle with ITV.
‘She’s not famous enough,'” she recalled execs telling Litten.
I’m actually angry.”
Angry as she may have been, her theater success soared in the subsequent years.
At her audition, she impressed him with her impeccable vocal range, singing both opera and show tunes.
“I thought it was to understudy,” she said.
He did I got the job!”
She wouldn’t star in another film for four more years.
I found it deeply offensive."
Asked whether she thought the role would bring her fame and fortune, Waddingham was surprisingly pessimistic.
“I’m very fatalistic about these things,” she admitted.
The scene is made all the more iconic by Septa Unella’s sonorous mantra of “Shame!”
And Septa was played by none other than Hannah Waddingham.
She snagged the role soon after appearing on “Benidorm” and was heavily pregnant when she auditioned.
I saw you in Spamalot,'" she recalled to The Times.
“I went, ‘Oh God, thank you.
But Rebecca doesn’t sing, does she?’
And under his breath … Jason went, ‘She does now.'”
At 45, she scored the part of scheming soccer boss Rebecca Welton, propelling her to epic stardom.
Waddingham did win an Emmy, along with two Critics Choice Awards and a Screen Actors Guild gong.
But when she approached 40, Waddingham and then partner Gianluca Cugnetto conceived naturally.
The couple welcomed their daughter, whose identity Waddingham chooses to conceal from the public, in 2014.
She was in the hospital for a while with them not knowing what it was."
“The biggest gift Ted Lasso has given me is that it’s shot 40 minutes from my house … Chatting to Glamour, she revealed that the gig was a dream come true.
“The West End community is fully obsessed with Eurovision,” she enthused.
I mean, it has to be the most historical one to be a part of.”
“She’s endearing herself to new audiences and I really hope we get to see more of her…
There’s not really anything she can’t do,” said Eurovision devotee Paul Jordan, perThe Guardian.
For Hannah Waddingham, having to say goodbye to Rebecca was an incredibly painful experience.
In fact, the phone simply won’t stop ringing for the breakout star.
she told The Times.
“And I think, ‘No, I wouldn’t like to come and do that, thanks.
Why would I want to do that, for 25p a week?’
There’s a little Rebecca in her, still.
And amid all the discrimination she has faced, Waddingham has emerged the victor.
