Hannah Waddingham didn’t maintain again when seemingly confronted by an inappropriate query on the pink carpet on the Olivier Awards in London.
In footage shared on X by person @odeiotedlasso, the Ted Lasso star, who was internet hosting this yr’s occasion honouring the perfect in UK theatre, may very well be heard calling out a photographer for his comment whereas strolling via the press pack.
“Oh my god, you’d by no means say that to a person, my good friend. Don’t be a d**ok, in any other case I’ll transfer off. Don’t say, ‘Present me leg.’ No.”
The group was then heard cheering because the actress walked off, shaking her head and clearly nonetheless irritated.
Waddingham later turned again towards the photographers telling him bluntly: “Have some manners.”
Earlier this yr, the British actress opened up on the Rule Breakers podcast about how she’d discovered to face up for herself after years within the business.
She informed host Michelle Visage that she’d needed to insist upon not taking small movie and TV roles.
“So I stated to my brokers on the time, ‘I’m not doing it anymore … If it’s one scene, I’m not doing it anymore, and also you shouldn’t be placing me up for it as a result of it’s insulting’,” Waddingham defined.
“I’ve been a number one girl for 22 years. I’m not doing it anymore. I’d moderately be in a world the place I’m appreciated.”
Waddingham additionally revealed lately that she’d developed “continual claustrophobia” because of a disturbing scene the place she was waterboarded “for 10 hours” as a part of her function in Recreation of Thrones.
“Thrones gave me one thing I wasn’t anticipating from it and that was continual claustrophobia,” she stated throughout a latest look on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, describing it as “horrific”.
