Game Of Thrones star Hannah Waddingham has claimed her character Unella was meant to be raped by The Mountain, however, the storyline was axed.
At the end of the sixth season of the HBO fantasy, Unella was tortured by Cersei (played by Lena Headey), who tortured her by dousing her in wine.
She was then imprisoned in a room with The Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson), but after the door had closed behind them the show moved on without revealing what had happened.
But now, Waddingham has shared that the original plan was for Unella to be sexually assaulted.
‘She was meant to be raped by The Mountain, and I think they’d [bosses] had so many complaints about the rape of Sansa that they chose not to go with it,’ Waddingham claimed.
‘I think they possibly changed it when I was mid-air flying to Belfast because suddenly I got sent these new sides that said that I would need a wetsuit top.
‘And I thought they’d sent me the wrong bits. And sure enough, when I got there, I was then put in a wetsuit top and I was like, “Because?” And they went, “Oh, it’s waterboarding instead”.’
Speaking about filming the savage scenes, Waddingham added to Collider that it was ‘the worst day of my life’.
‘Lena was uncomfortable pouring liquid in my face for that long, and I was beside myself,’ she continued to the publication.
‘But in those moments you have to think, do you serve the piece and get on with it or do you chicken out and go, “No, this isn’t what I signed up for, blah, blah, blah?”’
Last year, actor Iwan Rheon told Metro.co.uk that filming the controversial rape scene with Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) was the ‘worst day of his career’.
‘That was horrible,’ he said of the scenes which aired in 2015 episode Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.
‘Nobody wanted to be there. Nobody wants to do that, but if it’s telling a story then you have to tell it truthfully.
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