Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Hannah Waddingham stars alongsie Jason Sudekis in Ted Lasso. She plays team owner Rebecca Welton in the series. Hannah joins guest host Linda Holmes of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour to chat about her role in Ted Lasso. Plus, she talks about her years of performing in theater, her iconic part on Game of Thrones, *and* what it's like to perform in an award-winning musical when a mouse is stuck in your dress.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:14.8	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:23.2	It's a unique challenge for an actor to play a villain in a movie or a TV show that isn't
0:28.6	just compelling to watch, but also someone you sympathize with, maybe even relate to.
0:36.3	On Ted Lasso, there is a character named Rebecca.
0:39.3	Ted Lasso is of course a sitcom about an American football coach who finds himself in London
0:43.8	coaching a soccer team.
0:45.9	If you haven't seen the first season of the show, we are going to have some spoilers
0:49.5	right now.
0:50.5	Anyway, Rebecca is the owner of Richmond FC, the soccer team.
0:55.8	When the show begins, she has just inherited the team in a divorce settlement, and she's
1:00.8	the one who came up with the idea of hiring Ted, played by Jason Cedacus.
1:05.9	If it seems like a bad idea, well, Rebecca would at least at first agree.
1:10.9	Her goal in hiring Ted is to ruin the team, make it a joke in the British press.
1:16.9	The team, she says, is the only thing her ex really loved.
1:22.1	But as the show goes on, you learn more about Rebecca.
1:24.4	You find out about the humiliation and heartbreak she endured during her marriage, and you
1:29.1	see her change.
1:30.6	She gives up on revenge.
1:32.0	She stops working to sabotage the team, and she finds inspiration and joy through Ted
1:37.6	and the rest of the squad.
1:40.0	In the hands of most actors, the part could easily become a cliche, her transformation
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