Hannah Waddingham ‘struggled’ as a taller actress until working with ‘generous’ Jason Sudeikis on ‘Ted Lasso’
Hannah Waddingham said working with Jason Sudeikis on “Ted Lasso” was “unique” because he did not care that she was taller than him.
“I think being a woman who is not small, very tall, I had always struggled,” the actress, who is 5’11, admitted in a resurfaced interview on “The View” from June.
“You know, the amount of times they’d just be like, ‘Well, you know, we’ve already cast a guy who is 5’7,’ or, ‘We’ve already cast a guy that’s this big,’ and you’re like, ‘OK!'”
However, Waddingham, 49, said she had a different experience when she auditioned for “Ted Lasso.”
“When I went in for this, Jason [Sudeikis] was like, ‘I don’t care if she wears four-inch heels. Let’s do it.'”
The “Game of Thrones” alum said it was “nice” that Sudeikis didn’t care about her height or age.
“I was like, 45 when we started shooting, which, in itself, is fabulous and unusual — ridiculous that it’s so unusual,” she told the talk show’s hosts.
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“But the fact that he was just like, ‘No, I don’t care that she’s taller than me,’ That is a completely unique situation to find yourself in where the man is so generous that they want to raise you up and celebrate everything that you are and not that you are, like, some skinny mini.”
Waddingham, now 49, and the “Horrible Bosses” star, 47, starred alongside each other as Rebecca Welton and Ted Lasso, respectively, for all three seasons of the hit Apple TV series.
The sports-comedy drama, which first premiered in 2020, ended after three seasons in May 2023.
When the show wrapped, Waddingham confessed that she wasn’t sure if it was really the end for “Ted Lasso.”
“I don’t know. None of us know,” she told Entertainment Weekly in May. “I don’t even know if Jason knows. If he does, he is a sly dog.”
