Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

I think I got a great one dialed up for you this week with one of the most charismatic,

charming, talented people in all of show business. She is the

Emmy winner, Hannah Waddingham. Hannah, you may know best, for her role as Rebecca Welton on

Ted Lassow. She, of course, was the team owner of AFC Richmond, a little gruff, a little

tough at the beginning, but broken down over the course of the show by Jason Siddakis's Ted Lassau.

That is the breakout role.

That is the role that has made her a star over the last several years.

And it's been a long road to this moment for her.

Ted Lassow finally delivered her to the world.

But as she says, it's been tough. She has been a star on London's

West End for 20 years, at least, maybe a little bit more than that. She came to Broadway with

Spam a lot in 2008. In fact, we have our conversation right in the heart of Broadway on 44th Street

at a restaurant across the street from the Schubert Theater, where she put

on Spamelot. She played the Lady of the Lake in 2008, so more than 15, 16 years ago. But she has

talked about and does in some detail here in our conversation about how hard it was to get TV

roles, even though she was a star

on the West End and a star on Broadway. There was a certain vision of people, okay, you're that,

you're a stage actor. So she just got small parts, and it all came to a head on the set of the 2012

movie Le Miserables, where she gets into a little confrontation with director Tom Hooper

because she has been frustrated for so long about sort of just taking what she's been given,

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