‘Ted Lasso’ Star Hannah Waddingham Talks Her Bond Villain Super Bowl Ad for Rakuten and ‘Hocus Pocus 2’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorHannah Waddingham made her Super Bowl commercial debut during today’s telecast of the championship game.The “Ted Lasso” star is featured in a spot for cash back shopping service Rakuten.
She plays a villainous (and glamorous) character that could easily appear in a “James Bond” film — she has a hairless cat named Leonardo! — in a high stakes poker game who loses to a Rakuten user.
The 60-second commercial, directed by Matt Aselton, was shot at Hatfield House outside of London.“They came to me because they wanted a very specific kind of type,” the Emmy winner told Variety. “They’d obviously seen me in ‘Ted Lasso’ and also what I’m like in real life.
I like that fact that it is their first foray into Super Bowl commercials and mine as well. We kind of went hand-in-hand together and we all wanted to create something that was pretty epic and movie-like.” I caught up with Waddingham from her home in the U.K.
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