Brett Goldsteinswears he’s not annoyed with hisTed LassocostarHannah Waddingham.
Waddingham is about to speak when she catches Goldstein’s eye and stops.
Goldstein quickly replies, “That’s just my face!
Brett Goldstein.Chris McPherson for EW
You interpret that look any way you like, that’s my face.”
And I thought, “Oh my God, you sound like Mary Poppins.
Just stop talking, say the script, and shut up.”
Brett Goldstein and Hannah Waddingham.Chris McPherson for EW
BRETTGOLDSTEIN:You know I was stalking her for years before the job?
WADDINGHAM:He’s not actually joking.
GOLDSTEIN:He’s not joking.
Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein.Chris McPherson for EW
GOLDSTEIN:“I’ve seen this show.
I’ve seen you in the shower.”
[Both laugh]
GOLDSTEIN:Everything she’d ever done.
Hannah Waddingham.Chris McPherson for EW
WADDINGHAM:Thank god he was hot, otherwise I would’ve had to have a word with him.
But Brett, you first heard the words as a writer obviously.
I always had love for Ted Lasso.
So I actually heard of it long, long before.
And then one day Bill Lawrence called me up and said, “What are you doing?”
And I said, “I’m busy, what do you want?”
“I’m busy stalking Hannah.”
GOLDSTEIN:Yeah, “I’m outside Hannah’s house, what do you need?”
I said, “She’ll be home any minute!”
I was like, “I really hope this happens” and then it did.
WADDINGHAM:But that was as a writer.
GOLDSTEIN:That was as a writer, yeah.
WADDINGHAM:Before you did your special on them.
GOLDSTEIN:Before I blackmailed them.
It was around then I was like, “This is the guy.”
WADDINGHAM:You serious?
You got that far in?
GOLDSTEIN:Because all the time I kept thinking, “Could I do this?
Could I do this?”
It was around halfway through I thought, “I have to do this.”
WADDINGHAM:I can’t imagine anyone else on God’s earth playing this part.
GOLDSTEIN:Well bless you, same to you.
What was the moment you all realized the show was a hit?
WADDINGHAM:For me, it was when it came out.
I thought no one would watch it.
GOLDSTEIN:People didn’t know how to get Apple TV.
My parents didn’t know, I didn’t know.
So I was like, even if it was amazing no one’s going to watch it.
When’s the first time a stranger wanted to talk to you all aboutTed Lasso?
WADDINGHAM:That was here, this country.
You, me walking along and being like, “Things have changed.”
It was so odd, and especially if we walk around in any kind of pack.
And he went, “Can you sell me drugs?”
And then he stopped and he went, “Man, you look like Roy Kent.
Anyway, where can I get drugs?”
[Laughs] Then he walked past Phil and he went, “You look like Jamie Tartt!”
That was my favorite.
WADDINGHAM:And does it not bloody hurt?
Because it sounds like it does.
I don’t know how you’ve never lost your voice with that.
How do you do that?
GOLDSTEIN:It’s a real gift.
WADDINGHAM:He’s being modest.
GOLDSTEIN:I genuinely don’t remember but I imagine it evolved.
How much improv is there on this show?
GOLDSTEIN:Probably less than you might imagine.
WADDINGHAM:Next to nothing.
The one thing I always get involved with is anglicizing Rebecca to death.
She doesn’t talk like that, for God’s sake.
[Laughs]
What is your favorite scene that you’re not in?
GOLDSTEIN:There’s loads.
WADDINGHAM:Oh my God, there’s so many.
GOLDSTEIN:The scene where Hannah’s singing “Let It Go” and Jason has a panic attack.
I was there when they did the first rehearsal of it.
I had a tear, we all did, it was f—ing amazing.
WADDINGHAM:Did you?
GOLDSTEIN:Yeah, it was beautiful.
GOLDSTEIN:Aren’t you in that?
WADDINGHAM:I am in it but I love what he does in it.
Like deeply, deeply it sticks in my throat.
WADDINGHAM:Yeah, it does for me.
GOLDSTEIN:I think I felt that way from the beginning.
That’s how I felt from the beginning on this job.
Leaving her to do her own thing…
I don’t like it!
Brett, you know how it ends.
Hannah, do you?
GOLDSTEIN:I told Toheeb [Jimoh] a long time ago how his character dies.
[Laughs] Basically I was like, “You die by a helicopter.”
And he was like, “Oh, I’m in a helicopter crash?”
And I said, “No, you run into a still helicopter.
It’s not even on, you just run into it.
And that’s how you die.”
[Laughs] No spoilers, but that’s his ending.
I was very tired.
[Laughs] There’s more deaths in this season, more helicopters.
WADDINGHAM:Those bloody helicopters are a nightmare.
She ended the second season on a good note.
WADDINGHAM:She did end on a good note.
Did you have a final-season bucket list for your characters?
WADDINGHAM:I want to shout out the window again!
GOLDSTEIN:You got one coming up, babe.
WADDINGHAM:Have I?
GOLDSTEIN:I think so, yeah.
WADDINGHAM:God, he’s got such an annoying superpower!
GOLDSTEIN:But it could also be cut so that’s why I shouldn’t tell you.
Brett, did you have a bucket list in the writers' room?
Killing Sam, obviously.
But I think it will make him even more memorable.
I said, “Wait, wait, wait!
Wait till you hear what I got for Sam!”
