Just five years earlier, the pop culture commentariat were hailing “ the rise of the sadcom.” It was prime time for half-hour shows that were technically branded as comedies but could feel like anything but, whose fixations were the dark, harrowing corners of the human experience: addiction and depression self-loathing and nihilism, trauma and PTSD, from BoJack Horseman to Rick and Morty to You’re the Worst to Girls to Louie. Not that Ted Lasso would’ve made much sense if it had premiered in any other year either. It was the kind of show you would have to cajole your cynical friends into watching-a soccer show? Based on a commercial?-only to witness them first begrudgingly, then wholeheartedly, embrace the most lovable breakout of the year. It turned out to be just what audiences were seeking: a straight shot of sunshine, a glimmer of joy in an otherwise joyless year. It might, at first, seem like Ted Lasso was failing to read the room. The air above California was so thick with fire that the blue sky burned orange, and the fate of democracy seemed to hang in the balance.
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When Ted Lasso premiered on Apple TV+ in August 2020, the United States had just surpassed 5.4 million COVID-19 cases nationwide and pandemic-related deaths exceeded 1,000 per day. Temple's struggles probably sounds familiar, at least in part, to those who've spent the pandemic isolated, terrified, and grieving. I’d started my conversation with Temple with what’s become a perfunctory opener-How has your year of Covid been? Are you and your family okay?-and she responded by detailing the number this brutal stretch had done on her mental and emotional health: heightened anxiety, waves of insomnia that left her “incredibly nocturnal,” body image struggles that were intensified by how trapped she felt at home just staring at herself in the mirror and the postage-stamp picture of her face in the corner of every FaceTime call, “hating parts of your body, exteriorly, and then having to remind yourself that it’s okay to not be a certain size, a certain height, all of those things.”
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(When Keeley starts taking herself seriously as a career woman, she buys herself a Barbie-pink notebook with the words “My Adventures As A Unicorn” emblazoned in shiny letters across the cover.) She is her friends’ most devoted hypewoman, the advocate who believes enough in the people around her to actually hold them accountable for their bad actions.
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Coleen Rooney, more Tami Taylor x Fran Fine. She’s a WAG, sure, but her energy is less Rebekah Vardy v. And I was frightened, actually.”īut Temple’s Keeley became, like the show itself, someone you can’t help but root for. Temple’s excitement about the role was laced with uneasiness, though, as she simmered in the worry that she hadn’t really “earned” the part because she didn’t have to audition.
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Season one would also establish a friendship between Keeley and Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham), the team manager, who is older and icier and does not appear, at first, to be the sort of person whom Keeley would befriend. The arc Sudeikis described intrigued Temple, especially when it came to Keeley’s relationships: a love triangle between Jamie and his teammate, Roy, which would prompt all three of them to grow (“that sounded just playful and brilliant,” Temple says). Keeley describes herself in season one as “sort of famous for being almost famous ” when we meet her, she’s doing a bit of modeling but mostly hangs around her boyfriend’s team’s locker room. Sudeikis wanted Temple to be Keeley Jones, a cheerful, former Page Three girl dating Jamie, the team’s young, hotshot star. He had a plan, she recalls, for the way every character was “going to surprise people” with their emotional depths and contradictions, starting with Ted, whose pathological sunniness deflects from the ache in his own life: a crumbling marriage his positivity cannot salvage. Temple's gut reaction to the script was solidified by Sudeikis.