Zoe McConnell for Variety Most actors dread a bad review, but Hannah Waddingham credits the critics for catapulting her to the next phase of her career.
It was 2000, and Waddingham had recently wrapped a musical about artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. The show closed early after a panning in the press, but Waddingham’s turn as Toulouse-Lautrec’s lover, Suzanne Valadon, was singled out for praise. As one British newspaper put it: “She deserves to be in a better musical.”
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