‘Game of Thrones’ Stars Recall ‘Horrendous,’ ‘Traumatic’ Waterboarding Scene

The infamous “Game of Thrones” scene in which Hannah Waddingham’s Unella is tortured by Lena Headey’s Cersei Lannister remains the stuff of “GoT” lore.

Waddingham previously detailed that the shoot took 10 hours and was “other than childbirth… the worst day of my life.” At first, Unella tortures Cersei and famously shouts “shame” during Cersei’s walk of atonement to the Red Keep.

Once Cersei regains her power, she turns the tables on Unella and imprisons her.

The last viewers saw of Unella, she was being tortured by Cersei and left in the brutal hands of The Mountain.Waddingham and Headey recently looked back on the scene in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly timed to Waddingham’s Emmy nomination for “Ted Lasso.”“I wanted to ask you, which we never really talk about because I think both of us found it quite traumatic at the time: Our waterboarding,

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