Hannah 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…
