Hannah Waddingham Reveals How She’s Really Feeling About Ted Lasso’s Surprise Return

Hannah Waddingham has opened up about the return of Ted Lasso.

The British actor won an Emmy for her performance as Rebecca Welton in the Apple TV+ sports comedy, and later made no secret of her disappointment when it looked as though it would not be returning for a fourth season.

Eventually, earlier this year, it was confirmed that new episodes of Ted Lasso were in the works after all, two years after it last aired.

Speaking on Tuesday’s edition of Capital Breakfast, the former Game Of Thrones star admitted she had complicated feelings about the prospect of Ted Lasso coming back, as she and her co-stars initially thought they’d “mourned the loss”.

“We were all a bit like, ‘Oh’,” Hannah admitted. “We thought we’d mourned the loss, and now it’s rising from the dead.”

Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton in the most recent season of Ted Lasso
Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton in the most recent season of Ted Lasso

However, she added that the news was “amazing”, while letting slip that shooting is due to begin in July.

Putting the show’s continued popularity down to the writing, she enthused: “Our writers are literally Jedi Knights. They’re just incredible. And we’ve got, like, a full room of real feminist men. So, we’ve got all the fabulous women in there – but the men that are in there, I think you really see [that they are feminists[ in the scripts.

“You could easily have a show that was so male-dominated, because, you know, myself and Juno Temple are like the two main women in it. So, it could really be out of control – but you’d never feel that. It’s just so beautifully drawn.”

Ted Lasso star and creator Jason Sudeikis revealed in March that season four would centre around the titular character taking over a women’s football team.

Jason explained: “It’s daunting, because we told the story we wanted to tell. But there’s more there. And it is a neat group of people to work with, it’s a wonderful group of people, and characters to write around and for. It’s such a great group.”

Seasons one to three of Ted Lasso are now streaming on Apple TV+.

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The Fall Guy Comes Under Fire Over Joke About Amber Heard And Johnny Depp

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Well, that didn’t land.

The Fall Guy is hitting cinemas this weekend, but some people who got to preview the film aren’t impressed with a joke that references Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s relationship.

In the stunt actor-inspired action-comedy, Hannah Waddingham’s producer character walks into a messy trailer, where she tells Emily Blunt, playing a director: “It’s like Amber and Johnny were just in here.”

The scene didn’t sit right with many people online, who thought the “distasteful” and “cheap” line made light of domestic violence.

Others posted that they had been excited to see the movie before hearing about the off-colour joke.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard attend the 2016 Grammy Awards. A joke about their rocky relationship is at the center of a minor controversy.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard attend the 2016 Grammy Awards. A joke about their rocky relationship is at the center of a minor controversy.

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Heard and Depp married in 2015 but split just 15 months later.

Details about the pair’s tumultuous relationship would become public years later, when Depp sued Heard for defamation after she called herself a “a public figure representing domestic abuse” in a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post.

An intense court battle ensued, in which both actors accused each other of abuse. In the end, a jury ruled in Depp’s favour and ordered Heard to pay him millions in damages.

HuffPost has reached out to the distributor of The Fall Guy, Universal Pictures, for comment.

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