When Hannah Waddingham stops by The View, it’s at all times an excellent time. The Ted Lasso actress joined the Sizzling Matters desk this morning to advertise her upcoming Apple TV+ particular, House For Christmas, but additionally shared loads of particulars about her much-missed comedy sequence and the way shut she stays along with her Ted Lasso co-stars, even after the sequence wrapped final spring.
Waddingham, who starred on Ted Lasso as Rebecca Welton from 2020-2023, admitted to The View that regardless of years on the present, she’s not precisely a soccer skilled.
Whereas Ana Navarro thanked Waddingham for “instructing [her] about soccer,” the actress bravely replied, “Can I be sincere and say I nonetheless know completely nothing about soccer. That was the best performing job of my life.”
Later within the section, she assured The View that she and her Ted Lasso co-stars are as tight as ever. Actually, Waddingham simply joined Jason Sudeikis in Kansas Metropolis this previous weekend, the place she carried out in a charity live performance, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Waddingham, who was just a little hoarse days later, informed The View, “As you possibly can hear, it was numerous enjoyable,” she stated of performing with Sudeikis at his seventh annual Thundergong! charity occasion, which came about Nov. 11.
She added, “I made a decision I used to be a rock star for the evening, therefore sounding fairly like a drag queen at the moment.”
As for the remainder of her Ted Lasso co-stars, Waddingham could be very a lot in contact with them, too. She defined, “The entire Ted Lasso household — we is probably not filming, which is a good disappointment for all of us. However we’re in one another’s telephones, we’re in for good, for positive.”
She added, “And we don’t say that to make everybody assume it’s some shmaltzy factor. It’s only a reality.”
Throughout Waddingham’s final go to to The View, she defined one of many unlikely explanation why she finds Sudeikis so endearing. The actress, who’s 5’11, informed The View throughout a June look on the present that she appreciated working with the SNL alum as a result of he was unbothered by her peak.
“Being a lady who’s not small — very tall — I had at all times struggled,” Waddingham stated on the time. “The quantity of occasions they’d be like, ‘We’ve already solid a man who’s 5’7.’ Whereas after I went into this, Jason was like, ‘I don’t care if she wears four-inch heels. Let’s do it.’”
She added, “That may be a fully distinctive state of affairs to search out your self in — the place the person is so beneficiant that they need to elevate you up and rejoice every part that you’re and never that you just’re, like, some skinny-mini.”
The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.