Ted Lasso’s Juno Temple was shocked she acquired forged in a comedy

Juno Temple has been nominated for an Emmy for her work on Ted Lasso two years in a row, however she was initially shocked that she booked a task in a comedy in any respect. In a brand new interview on The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon, she shares how she thought her casting was a mistake at first due to her drama background.

“You recognize, I’ve performed, like, lesbian werewolves,” Temple says, referring to 2012’s Jack & Diane. “I’ve spent various time in trailer parks, too, going by means of some stuff.”

Whereas Ted Lasso hasn’t shied away from addressing its characters’ much less lighthearted moments, the Apple TV+ collection turned a breakout hit for its feel-good tone. As Keeley Jones, Temple serves because the neon-lit coronary heart of the present, however as she recollects her first interactions with government producer and star Jason Sudeikis, she didn’t instantly see her place on the earth of AFC Richmond.

“He despatched me a textual content, and there was this second the place I believed, oh gosh, that is going to be awkward, as a result of I’m fairly certain he has texted the unsuitable actress, and I’m going to have to write down again and be like, ‘Yo, that is Juno Temple, I don’t know in the event you really know who I’m,’” she remembers.

Although Temple’s résumé accommodates loads of the grim interval dramas requisite for many British actors, a few of her earliest credit embrace the St. Trinian’s motion pictures and the Jack Black and Michael Cera automobile 12 months One, so she is perhaps promoting herself slightly quick.

“And it wasn’t a mistake,” she continues. “And I feel [Sudeikis] has this capacity with lots of people that have been forged within the present to see one thing in all of us that we didn’t essentially assume we had in us in any respect. That being stated, quite a lot of the occasions I’m telling jokes on Ted Lasso, I don’t know they’re a joke.”

Together with Temple’s real-life friendship with co-star Hannah Waddingham, no marvel her efficiency appears to be like so pure. She will be able to subsequent be seen within the upcoming fifth season of Fargo.