Ted Lasso Season 2 Updates: Ted Lasso, a buzzy new comedy that was released last summer, ended its first season, with early fans pushing their friends and family to watch the feel-good program, which stars series creator Ted Lasso. Jason Sudeikis is the titular American football coach who is recruited to move across the pond and take over the helm of a Premier League club.
Now, as the second season approaches its conclusion, the program has become a worldwide phenomenon, with millions of fans and seven Emmy Awards to its credit, including Outstanding Comedy Series.
ET obtained a Ted Lasso exclusive from Apple TV+ before the season 2 finale on Friday, which has the show’s attractive female protagonists, Hannah Waddingham and Juno Temple, questioning each other about how they landed the life-changing roles and what’s next for their characters.
When it came to wrapping off season 2, Temple made it clear that she was done “I’m f**king pleased, but I’m also terrified… You simply want to make others proud of you.”
“Now that we know how great season 1 went, all we can hope for is that viewers continue to enjoy our character adventures and connect with them in the same way they did before.” way they did with season 1,” she added, “even if they bring fresh emotions and new adventures and all that.”
“I believe season 2 is fairly different, in terms of truly going into the dirt,” Waddingham concurred.
“The human part of it,” Temple continued, “that we all bottle up and don’t really want to talk about.”
Both ladies were nominated for Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy, which Waddingham won, but they came to the program in quite different ways. It was all very “secret squirrel” for Waddingham, a West End performer best known on TV for portraying Game of Thrones’ “Shame Nun,” Septa Unella.
When she read the pilot script, she remarked, “I wasn’t told what it was, who it was for, or who had developed it.” “But that gave me the luxury of just asking, “Who is this woman, at face value?” That is, I believe, the first time [that has occurred].”
It’s impossible to envision anyone else as Rebecca Welton, the scorned new owner of AFC Richmond who is hell-bent on wrecking the team only to spite her lecherous ex-husband, in the pilot. However, as the role grew, so did the actress.
“I’ve watched your insight into Rebecca as a woman as we’ve done press together about it, and learning about how much she meant to you in such a deep, deep way, that makes you have such an understanding of her, which is why she’s such an outstanding character,” Temple praised.
In a season 1 scene, Ted consoles Rebecca outside of her fundraising yearly gala, where she’s been upstaged by her ex, Rupert (Anthony Head), and is battling to conceal the cracks from breaking through on her polished veneer, according to Waddingham.
Professionally, the two are at odds, but when Ted informs Rebecca that she isn’t the only one who sees Rupert for the jerk that he is, something significant shifts in her character, a reference to the growing bond between them. It’s a quiet, great performance that Waddingham confessed almost didn’t happen.
Sudeikis, a Saturday Night Live album, is known for making last-minute script changes — “writing up against the wall,” Temple laughed — which his co-star “balked” at, especially in the emotionally charged sequence.
“Oh, my God, you can’t offer me something 10 minutes before we’re about to be on television,” Waddingham remembered. He continued to do it since he was aware of the consequences. I was limiting myself, and I was just thinking, ‘This is becoming crazy how close this has gotten to my life.'”
Temple, who portrays football WAG-turned-PR maven Keeley Jones, received the pilot from Sudeikis first-hand and has frequently related the story about how certain she was that the show’s creator and star had her confused with someone else. The actress, who is known for her darker, dramatic parts, confesses to being anxious about portraying a comic character. She did, however, take a look at the script.
She said, “I hadn’t read anything like it.” “From the beginning, it made you laugh and also made you feel incredibly emotional, you know?”
When she realized Sudeikis had envisioned her in the role of Keeley, the actress informed Waddingham, “The great selling point was that he did talk to me about our friendship… It was a subject about which he was quite enthusiastic. He was genuinely concerned about these two women assisting each other in ways they had never idea was possible.”
“It feels like they’re soulmates,” Temple continued, “but they didn’t realize it until the episodes started to progress.” “I honestly think that by the conclusion of season one.”
Waddingham gushed, “Our amazing female writers give us such a great service.” “And I adore the fact that they’ve actually said, ‘Go on, do something that takes you out of your comfort zone.'”
“Don’t be shy,” Temple agreed. “They have a lot of guts.”
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Waddingham and Temple were particularly delighted by the addition of a captivating new female character in Ted Lasso season 2: Richmond’s sports psychologist, Dr. Sharon Fieldstone, played by Sarah Niles.
“We had our first read-through on Zoom, and she began reading that character… ‘Oh!’ I said “Temple recalled something.
“She offered a very chilled-out, effortless power, and is a perfect counterbalance to where yours and my characters are,” Waddingham continued, noting that she had a “serious issue” with Sudeikis about not getting enough screen time with her.
Waddingham and Temple are still counting their blessings as the show begins production on season 3, which is thought to be its final season.
Waddingham revealed to her co-star, “I can’t believe my luck that you were even back for season 2.” “I figured she’d be off since she’s so large, and I’d hear Juno wasn’t coming back.”
Temple sneered at the idea. She exclaimed, “[Keeley] saved my mental health!” “I wouldn’t miss this for anything in the world.”
“This entire cast, crew, character, and everyone… the fact that we get to do it again? Thank you, God “Added the actress.
Ted Lasso may be a show about a men’s sports team with few female characters, but it doesn’t feel quite right to term it a “male-driven” comedy given the powerful characters the actresses depict and the way the program continually addresses toxic masculinity in its different, insidious forms.
“I’ll never forget that moment when someone told us, ‘This is a show I want to show my kid because of the relationship you two have formed,'” Temple remembered.
“It absolutely sucked the wind out of both of us,” Waddingham said, adding, “That’s the finest compliment we could get.”
