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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: Hannah Waddingham was told she didn't have a face for TV by drama teacher
Caption: Hannah Waddingham was told she didn't have a face for TV by drama teacher. The Ted Lasso actress has revealed that she was determined to prove her drama teacher wrong after receiving the childhood insult. ”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'" Hannah Waddingham / Michelle Visage's Rule Breakers podcast. ”I thought, I will do. Come hell or high water, I will work on screen.” The British star admitted the comment "gave (her) a complex for years” and she used to "knacker (herself) senseless" trying to show the teacher they were wrong. ”I would say that was my biggest rule break ever - to go, 'You know what? I'm just going to see,'" she continued. "I used to be doing a (theatre) show at night and I used to literally take anything to get myself on screen.” Hannah also recalled that a school headteacher was "always dismissive" of her and didn't support her acting ambitions because she turned her back on academia. ”She refused to give me a reference, so I managed to get a scholarship for the drama school I went to and I walked back in, put it on her desk and left the room without shutting the door”. THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT
Keywords: Ted Lasso,drama teacher,Michelle Visage,Rule Breakers podcast,British star,academia,scholarship,drama school,Game of Thrones,Sex Education,Emmy,Critics Choice Award,Screen Actors Guild Award,Rebecca Welton
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