The set hides dangers and not only with acrobatics and stunt doubles: Hannah Waddingham knows this well, remembering when her stage costume caught fire due to a technical error.
Not long ago Hannah Waddingham admitted to developing claustrophobia following a traumatic scene on the set of Game of thrones that would have involved Cersei Lannister. In a new interview, the actress returns to the cinema with The Fall Guy he also told of the time, on set, that his costume suddenly fell apart fire.
The Fall Guy, Hannah Waddingham talks about the time her costume accidentally caught fire
When you act for so long in Hollywood and on the stage it is natural to accumulate some anecdotes that arise from stressful and upsetting experiences and this is what happened to Hannah Waddingham too. Fresh from the success of Ted Lasso and back to the room with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt in The Fall Guy, the actress said that often on set even scenes that don’t involve stunts and stunt doubles can hide pitfalls. In her case, the costume she wore for the Wizard of Oz in London’s West End caught fire. How did it happen? According to the actress, one of the fireworks used for the scene malfunctioned and, before she could even abandon her flying broom, she caught fire. Fortunately, the actress revealed that she did not suffer serious injuries, but that she had certainly expanded the repertoire of anecdotes to tell. To the microphones of ComicBookrecalled what happened:
At the theater they set me on fire by mistake. In The Wizard of Oz, I was on my broomstick, playing the Wicked Witch of the West. I had a feathered costume, I had this finger flash to set the Scarecrow on fire, but it went out too late, diverted the path and set my feathers on fire. It can happen.
The unexpected is always around the corner and accidents happen on set, not always involving stunt doubles as happens with Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy, one of action movie most anticipated of the year.
