Hannah Waddingham Gets Honest About Ted Lasso Season 4: ‘We Thought We Mourned It’

Hannah Waddingham arrives at the premiere of "Smurfs" on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)Ted Lasso fans have pretty much been in mourning since the show wrapped two years ago, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to hear it’s been emotional for the cast to revisit the beloved series.Hannah Waddingham and Jason Sudeikis lead the Apple TV+ sports comedy for three seasons before concluding with a third and final outing in May 2023, which fans praised for its “perfect ending”. While there were rumblings of the show’s return for some months, creator and star Jason finally confirmed the rumours earlier this year. Now Game Of Thrones star Hannah, who plays AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton in the series, has opened up about how she’s really feeling about reprising the role.“It feels like it was the most beautiful, beloved dog that was buried, and now we’ve exhumed it, and I am here for it,” she told Variety on Sunday at the Smurfs premiere in Los Angeles.“I was hankering and hankering and hankering and hankering to see where Rebecca had gone, where she was going to. She’s my girl. She’s in my bloodstream, so I’m thrilled that it’s been exhumed,” the Emmy winner added.“I can’t wait to get involved with that and put my penneth in and go shopping for her looks.”She echoed comments made back in May on Capital Breakfast, when she revealed her complicated feelings about bringing back Ted Lasso. “We were all a bit like, ‘Oh’,” she admitted. “We thought we’d mourned the loss, and now it’s rising from the dead.”However she insisted that the news was “amazing”, revealing that shooting is due to begin in July.Speaking on Travis and Jason Kelce’s podcast New Heights earlier this year, Jason Sudeikis confirmed that Ted Lasso would be returning to our screens, revealing that his character would be coaching a women’s football team.“It’s daunting, because we told the story we wanted to tell,” he explained. “But there’s more there.“And it is a neat group of people to work with, it’s a wonderful group of people, and characters to write around and for. It’s such a great group.”Last year Jason fired back at critics of Ted Lasso’s third season, insisting that the characters were all “in better shape than when they started”, adding: “If you don’t see that in that show, then I don’t know what show you’re watching.”Related...Hannah Waddingham Just Revealed 1 Startling Detail About Her Most Iconic Game Of Thrones SceneHannah Waddingham Has An Epic Response As She Finally Breaks Silence On Ted Lasso Return ClaimsHannah Waddingham Well And Truly Stole The Show At The British Grand Prix With This Phenomenal Performance

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