Even celebrities have to call out cat-callers. Hannah Waddingham, star of shows like Ted Lasso and Game of Thrones, was minding her business in a beautiful one-shouldered lavender beaded gown at the Olivier Awards in London on April 14, posing confidently and electing not to stick her leg out of the dress’s side slit. Because, like, it’s her choice how much to reveal, and she will show leg if she wants to, as she did at the SAG Awards.
However, in a video captured by a fan and posted to Twitter, a photographer at the event apparently asked her to “show me leg,” prompting this perfectly British take-down: “Oh my god. You’d never say that to a man, my friend. Don’t be a dick, otherwise I’ll move off. Don’t say, ‘Show me leg.’ No.”
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Muh-thur. The one finger up, the smile, the “my friend,” the fact that she could clearly snap your neck if she so desired…she’s so polite, and she’s so not f-ing around. Let us not forget, this is the woman who put Cersei Lannister in her place! Shame on the photographer, shame.
The cheers from the crowd are well-earned.
And she’s right! A photographer might reasonably ask a celebrity to pose at a different angle to see more of their outfit, but “show me leg” is way too chummy, and it’s hard to imagine such a comment being thrown at a male celebrity. Besides, I just wanna focus on the fact that her dress has a cape. Show me cape, show me cape! (It might be a train?)
Another prime example of Hannah Waddingham being an amazing role model, even for us grown-up ladies, as well as for young girls like her nine-year-old daughter, who hand-crafted the up-cycled clutch Waddingham took down the red carpet in February.
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Show me bag! Show me bag.
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