Hannah Waddingham’s Willow Cameo: How the Ted Lasso Star Signed On

When you’re coping with franchises as widespread as those Lucasfilm makes, it’s not all that shocking to see massively well-known folks pop up in small roles. Everyone desires to work on Star Wars or Indiana Jones in order that they’ll do no matter they’ll to get on display. Apparently although, that additionally extends to Willow.

That’s as a result of the newest episode, “The Battle of the Slaughtered Lamb,” options one of the adorned actresses in latest reminiscence in a really small position. One that she crushes, after all. And io9 requested showrunner Jon Kasdan the way it got here to be. Here’s what he stated.

We’re speaking, after all, of Hannah Waddingham, the Emmy-winning star of Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso. Waddingham reveals up on Willow as Hubert, a girl dwelling within the woods alongside along with her pal/companion/undefined relationship Anne (Caoimhe Farren). When a determined, escaping Elora (Ellie Bamber) stumbles upon the ladies, Hubert provides to assist her. But when she finds out it’s the well-known Elora Danan, she pledges whole allegiance to her. It’s a beautiful scene that’s sadly punctuated by her premature demise.

“I had this idea very early on that when Elora escaped from the knights of Tir Asleen… she would have a brief detour somewhere that felt too good to be true,” Kasdan advised io9. “And what we thought of was this lovely little campsite and these two women who were funny and sort of a joy to be around. Very much in the spirit of Willow characters where they’re eccentric in sort of a slightly self-involved [way] and live in their own universe a little bit. And that emerged as a storyline.”

“And when we were searching out who to play that part, Hannah was another person who sort of raised her hand and said, ‘I love this stuff. Put me in there, give me anything I can. As long as I get to fight, I’m down,’” Kasdan continued. “And of course, she came in, she blew us all away, and we all instantly regretted her death and wondered how we might potentially bring her back.”

It’s laborious to return again from a sword via the chest but when anybody can do it, it’s Waddingham within the magical world of Willow. You can watch the full episode here or Lucasfilm launched a short clip.

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