“Ted Lasso” premiered during the summer of 2020 with the world in various stages of lockdown. Throughout the filming of Season 1, the passionate response from an instantly devoted fan base, and the pandemic-era production of Season 2, Waddingham and Temple have trusted each other implicitly as they’ve navigated a singular experience in both their careers. The same holds true for the actors, who are now so close that Waddingham considers Temple to be a “fairy godmother unicorn” to her young daughter. Finding the groove of their friendship, which even blossoms into a mentorship when Rebecca offers Keeley a job (fittingly, while they’re both taking a break in a ladies’ loo) was a game changer. “It would’ve been very easy for the women to be ciphers, to exist as the villain or the ingénue, or to only be there to see how they reflect on the men around them,” Lawrence says. “I think the show showing that is one of the things I’m proudest of being a part of, actually.”Īs the writers were developing the series, about a British soccer team, they actively worked to not only “poke fun at toxic masculinity and relationships,” as co-creator Bill Lawrence recalls, but to make Rebecca and Keeley more three-dimensional than they might’ve been in the sports-movie equivalent of the show. “Women are such extraordinary creatures, and we don’t have to be competitive,” she says. For Temple, playing Keeley, who resists any hint of clichéd catfights with Rebecca, is a career highlight.
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