Hannah Waddingham showed off a scar she got from punching an actor in a 'The Fall Guy' fight scene
Hannah Waddingham said she got a scar from punching someone in a fight scene for "The Fall Guy."
Waddingham told "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" that she asked to be part of a fight.
Waddingham wouldn't reveal who she fought in the scene.
Hannah Waddingham showed off a scar she got while shooting a fight scene for her upcoming movie "The Fall Guy" on Monday's episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
Waddingham plays an executive producer in the action comedy about a stunt man, starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Winston Duke, which will be released in the US on May 3.
Asked if she does her own stunts, Waddingham told Colbert that she wasn't supposed to but her role kept getting expanded, and she ended up filming a fight scene in the last 20 minutes of the movie, but wouldn't say who with.
"I was complaining that just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't get involved with the shizzle," Waddingham said. "So I was like, 'I would like to punch him, please."
"So I really smacked it to him and see all these scars here. Look at my wounds," Waddingham said, showing Colbert her fingers. "So that's my badge of honor."
Colbert joked: "I would get some funds, if I were you, from the scars."
Most film sets have worker's compensation insurance to cover the cost of medical care for accidents or injuries on set. Films that use SAG-AFTRA union actors require this insurance.
Waddingham went on to say that she didn't do stunts in "The Fall Guy," but recalled filming her famous waterboarding scene in the season six finale of "Game of Thrones."
"'Thrones' gave me something I wasn't expecting from it, and that's chronic claustrophobia," Waddingham said. "Ten hours of being actually waterboarded."
In a 2021 interview with Collider, Waddingham said that her character Septa Unella was originally going to be raped in the scene, but the producers changed it to waterboarding at the last minute.
Waddingham added that she wanted to give her best because she loved the series, so she asked to be tied to the table with leather straps for the scene. Waddingham told Collider in 2021 that it was the "worst day of my life," and she was now claustrophobic around water.
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