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 Lasso.

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 Sadekis's Ted Lasso.

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

She's now starring in a new movie called The Fall Guy alongside Ryan Gosley and Emily Blunt, funny action-packed movie, and it's been a long road to this moment for her.

Ted Lasso 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 Miserab 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 which is small parts in movies and small parts and TV shows. It changes there in that moment. She gets on

Game of Thrones as the Shame None and then of course lands with Jason Sedacus and the group on Ted Lasso. So she is just a wonderful

person. You'll hear the charisma coming through your headphones. You'll hear the

smarts, the experience, the life she's lived all coming out right now in my

conversation with Hannah Waddingham on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

Hello, it's so nice to see Hello. Hi.

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