Hannah Waddingham shares drama teacher’s insult that turned her into TV star

Hannah Waddingham shares drama teacher’s insult that turned her into TV star  Source: Michelle Visage’s Rule Breakers, BBC Sounds

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00:00 I had one drama teacher that said to the whole class,

00:03 "Oh, Hannah will never work on screen because she looks like one side of her face has had a stroke."

00:08 And I thought, "I will do. I will do. Come hell or high water, I will work on screen."

00:16 And it gave me a compact for years. And this is why in my Emmy speech, I made a point.

00:23 The one thing I said to myself, "If this weird moment comes and I get this award,

00:30 and I get my foot in this door, I'm going to rip it off at Tinge's for

00:36 musical theatre people or theatre people to follow."

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