Hannah Waddingham has a ‘real problem’ with Tom Cruise haters

Rebecca from “Ted Lasso” is angling to get on Tom Cruise’s famous “cake list.”  

Emmy-winning actress Hannah Waddingham, 49, has stepped up to defend Tom Cruise, 61, from his haters. 

During an appearance on the U.K.’s ITV series “James Martin’s Saturday Morning,” she said, “I have to say… I’ve got a real problem with anyone that goes at him now.

“Having spent five days with him intensely on the [ship USS George H.W. Bush], no fineries, all this mucking in… he is without doubt one of the most lovely, encouraging, positive, inspiring human beings I have ever met. Isn’t he gorgeous? I have no time for anyone saying anything about him.”

Aside from “Ted Lasso,” Waddingham is also known for playing Septa Unella on “Game of Thrones” – the infamous “shame bell” woman who walked behind Cersei (Lena Headey) ringing a bell and yelling, “shame!” during Cersei’s naked walk through the streets of King’s Landing as atonement for her adultery.

Next up, she will appear alongside Cruise in the final installment of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning,” which is set to be released in 2025.

Cruise has gotten a lot of positive buzz in recent years for his famous “Tom Cruise cakes,” a notorious exclusive list of celeb pals who he sends expensive cakes to during the holidays.

He’s also gotten credited for “saving movies” as one of the last great American action stars — especially with the success of “Top Gun: Maverick,” when the movie theater industry was suffering, following the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. And, he threw his weight behind the striking actors during the Hollywood actors’ strike that lasted from the summer to November. 

It’s almost easy to forget the days that he shocked everyone – and not in a good way – by jumping on Oprah Winfrey’s couch in 2005.

Or, when he was generally thought of as a “Scientology nut,” especially when he got unflattering coverage in documentaries like HBO’s “Going Clear: Scientology & The Prison of Belief.” That 2015 film alleged that Cruise tapped his then-wife Nicole Kidman’s phone. 

He also publicly chastised the field of psychiatry and Brooke Shields for using antidepressants, in a notorious “Today” show appearance that Shields clapped back at.

But, all of that has seemingly been smoothed over in his PR turn-around, in recent years.

And Waddingham isn’t here for the haters. She did not specifically mention those reasons that people “go at him,” but she said she has “no time” for that.

She also previously talked up Cruise in a March interview with “Live with Kelly and Mark.” 

“I’ve met plenty of fabulous people,” she gushed. 

“He is one of, if not the most inspiring, encouraging, warm, tactile, friendly to everyone, engaging… I mean seriously, he and I were literally like two 12-year-olds together.”