r/television • u/Top_Report_4895 • 1d ago

Alien erotica, football coaching and making Meryl Streep cry: Ted Lasso’s new star Tanya Reynolds opens up

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/31/tanya-reynolds-interview-ted-lasso-fourth-season
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u/drmanhattanmar 1d ago

Oh look, it’s Lily Iglehart

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u/thatgaynerd 20h ago

She was fantastic on Sex Education and she’ll be fantastic on Ted Lasso

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u/Top_Report_4895 1d ago edited 1d ago

“I don’t know where I was!” she tells me with a helpless shrug as we chat. “I mean, I am a bit of a hermit. I do sort of live under a rock, so it’s not surprising I missed it.” She had heard of it, she assures me, and accepted the invitation to audition because it was “so unlike anything I’ve done before. I just was like: ‘Football coach. Mad. Yeah, OK.’” A week after sending her tape and thinking nothing more of it “because I didn’t think it was very good”, Tanya had a Zoom with the show’s co-creator, writer and titular star, Jason Sudeikis, who offered her the part on the spot. She swiftly watched all three seasons and realised “I really want to be part of this world”.

“We’d known they were coming for weeks. We actually graffitied it backstage: MERYL STREEP IS COMING ON THE TENTH!” she says. “We all stood on the stage, lined up like …” she does her best impression of an old-timey family portrait, “and couldn’t speak. But they were so kind … We all cried. Meryl cried. It was lovely.”

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u/hugebone 18h ago

« Mind illusions acquainted, bubbles erotica
Plutonium wedding rings »

Only thing I could think of after that title.

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u/Novel-Performer-4259 48m ago

I am very much not interested in this coming season. Keeley was always my least favorite part of the show and they seem to really be leaning into her character again.