Keeley Hazell just lately revealed that Jason Sudeikis based mostly the position of Keeley from Ted Lasso on her. In her new memoir, the British mannequin claimed that she virtually scored the position after a number of auditions. However issues didn’t go as deliberate for her. Finally, she did play a task in Ted Lasso, nevertheless it was nowhere close to as vital as Juno Temple’s character.
Keeley Hazell may have been forged in Ted Lasso as an alternative of Juno Temple
US Weekly revealed how Keeley Hazell mentioned her near-casting in Ted Lasso as Keeley in her new memoir, Everybody’s Seen My Tits. The 38-year-old actress and mannequin revealed how Jason Sudeikis had met her to debate an element he had reportedly written for her. She mentioned that the present hadn’t been picked again then.
“[Sudeikis] was going to play the lead, Ted, a cheery and optimistic American soccer coach who’d come to educate a British soccer (soccer) workforce, which, in the event you haven’t discovered, is a wholly completely different sport,” she recalled concerning the sequence, “The present hadn’t been picked up at this level, which means, it was only a script ready to be bought….However the thought of me being a lead in a TV present was sufficient to make me moist my pants with pleasure.”
Sudeikis, who was romantically linked to Hazell earlier than, reportedly talked to her concerning the character as he wrote it.
Following this, Hazell went for a number of auditions however was finally knowledgeable that she wouldn’t get the half. As an alternative, Juno Temple was forged within the position. Sudeikis advised her that she would get one other half.
“I felt like I’d been punched within the chest,” Hazell mentioned within the guide, “As soon as I didn’t get forged as Keeley, I made a decision that performing may go f— itself.”
She finally did seem in Ted Lasso, simply not because the lead or one of many vital characters. Hazell performed Bex on the Apple TV+ present. Regardless of the brief recurring position, Bex made fairly an impression on the present.
She wrote in her memoir that there have been some variations between her and the present Keeley. She added, “I get to play the best position of my lifetime — the Actual Keeley, and right here she f—— is.”
Ted Lasso is streaming on Apple TV+.
