‘Ted Lasso’ star Hannah Waddingham calls out red carpet photographer for sexist remark: ‘Don’t be a d–k’
Hannah Waddingham slammed a photographer during London’s prestigious Olivier Awards on Sunday, who reportedly told the “Ted Lasso” star to “show me leg.”
“Oh my God, you’d never say that to a man,” Waddingham, 49, replied on the red carpet in a videoposted on X (formerly Twitter)as she stood outside Royal Albert Hall.
“Don’t be a d–k otherwise I’ll move off. Don’t say ‘show me leg.’ No,” she continued. The “Mission Impossible” actress, who was dressed in a floor-length purple gown, was later spotted continuing to exchange words with the photographer while shaking her head.
Waddingham’s telling-off has since gone viral.
“I not only saw Hannah Waddingham,” said the person whoposted the video. “But I saw Hannah Waddingham being pissed at an a–hole misogynistic p—k photographer and calling him off on it and I never yelled MOTHER so loud.”
“HANNAH WADDINGHAM FOR PRIME MINSTER, PLEASE. I didn’t know it was even possible to love her even more,” a second fancheered.
The award-winning actress has never been one to mince words.
Earlier this year, the actress brutally slammed a former teacher who once told her that she would never make it on television due to her physical appearance.
“I had one drama teacher that said to the whole class: ‘Oh Hannah will never work on-screen because she looks like one side of her face has had a stroke,’” the “Hocus Pocus 2” star told Michelle Visage on her BBC podcast “Rule Breakers.”
“I thought, ‘I will do. Come hell or high water, I will work on-screen,’” she told Visage.
Waddingham, who later won an Emmy for her role as AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Weltonin the Apple TV+ series in 2021, said the comment gave her a “complex for years.”
“In my Emmys speech, I made a point — the one thing I said to myself [was] if this weird moment comes and I get this award, and I get my foot in this door, I’m going to rip it off its hinges for music theater people, or theater people, to follow,” the three-time Olivier nominee said.
The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” judge praised Waddingham on her courage and said that she could have gone “one of two ways” after hearing the comment.
“You could either break down and hate your life and be depressed, or you could rise up and do what you did and accept ‘Oh I actually, I’m gonna show you,’” Visage said, adding that it “says more about that teacher saying that to a child with stars in their eyes.”
Waddingham is set to return to the silver screen in the upcoming Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt-led film “The Fall Guy,” as well as “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part 2” starring Tom Cruise.
