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When Hannah Waddingham was told the writers of Ted Lasso were reconvening to discuss a once inconceivable fourth season, she had only one question: “Am I in it?”
Juno Temple, who plays Keeley Jones on the Apple TV series, asked her agents something similar. “I was like, ‘Oh, do you think they want me?’” she says, and she was deadly serious at the time.
The answer to both women was an unequivocal “yes.”
On Aug. 5, three years after signing off, Ted Lasso will return with an all new season and both actresses are very much a part of it. At 10 episodes, it will turn its focus from the AFC Richmond men’s soccer team, which had been at the center of the first three seasons, to its female team, affectionately dubbed the Lady Greyhounds. Creator and star Jason Sudeikis will be back, too, though the actors who portrayed players have been replaced by actresses, which was a necessary creative decision on the part of its writers. The new season is not a spinoff — but it isn’t a traditional continuation of the mothership either.
