what I find so devastating about the “romans sexual ‘dysfunction’” thing is that it clearly just fucking…. eats at roman. there is something wrong with him and he knows it so well and he can’t fix it and he cant hide it and he can try to redirect attention so no one thinks about it but eventually that falls away and hes left just… sick with self-loathing. whether it comes from embarrassment of his sexuality/kinks, from his hatred of and discomfort with his body, an inability to tear down the dipshit persona, past sexual trauma, just general self hatred or some combination of the above it’s something that all of his bluster can’t solve. then hes left hollow just giving tabitha murmured responses when she gives up on trying to fuck. kieran gives us the nauseated tension in roman when logan pushes him on the dps and when shiv makes jokes about him wanting to fuck caroline… roman just shuts down entirely when grace and shiv bring it up. these last two seasons having his sex issues start to be openly talked about make me so afraid for season four, given logans instruction to get himself straightened out. things are coming to a head. and soon.
“The
reason we start with Rebecca is all rooted in George Roy Hill starting on those
long close-up shots of Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
‘cause he was an unknown Broadway actor, but George Roy Hill wanted to let
people know that yes, [Paul Newman] is in here, don’t worry, but this guy is in
the movie too. So, this show is about Rebecca, even though it’s called ‘Ted
Lasso’, in my opinion. The first season, certainly.“ - Jason Sudeikis
“I
had this picture in my head of what Rebecca looked like, more just in essense,
like an aura, and I walk in, and see who we know now as Hannah, and I saw
Rebecca. I saw Rebecca first, and then I got to meet Hannah.”
- Jason Sudeikis
HANNAH: Were you thinking, “She’s a giant!”
JASON: No, I didn’t think that. I mean, we
talked about it that day. I remember you being sort of surprised that I didn’t
comment on it. I think I said, “It wouldn’t bother Ted. It doesn’t bother me.”
“You get little glimpses or an eye flutter of it as early as episode one. When Ted says to her, “Oh, yeah, I heard about that. How are you doing?” — knowing that this was going to be a longer-running thing — it allowed me to give a smile, but an acknowledgment of somebody being so direct to her. In my head, that is literally the first moment anybody had checked in with her. I was glad that, in the edit, that came across. That slight startle.”
- Hannah Waddingham
“I knew when playing that scene we’d go to Rebecca’s face after Ted asked to have to sit with it. Sometimes you put that in the script and other times you don’t, but you just know it editorially.”
- Jason Sudeikis
“I do think Rebecca likes him very early
on, and that gets in the way. She didn’t think her plan through. She saw this
guy online and thought, What an idiot, let’s get him to destroy the club. She
didn’t think she would actually have chemistry and empathy with this person.”
- Hannah Waddingham
”She stops weaponizing him early on, like,
when she gets to know him, basically after [episode] 4, it’s no longer
[that].“
- Jason Sudeikis
"Rebecca finds things that she respects Ted
for far earlier than people think.”
- Hannah Waddingham
INTERVIEWER: When you look at [Ted and Rebecca] there’s actually a lot
of similarities between them. They’re both dealing with the end of a
relationship, they’re trying to navigate heartbreak, and what their sense of
identity is outside of what has been their lives for several years. […] Was
there a conscious thought about some of the paralels between their journeys
with that in mind?
BRENDAN: Yes. […] We will see a little more of
why they are kindred and parallel spirits in season 2
“I do believe they are soulmates.”
- Jason Sudeikis
“They are ultimately soulmates, in
whatever form.” - Hannah Waddingham
“She
realizes that they’re each other’s saviors. She unwittingly has saved his life
by bringing him away from his wife and his home life, and he has been brought
into her life to bring her strength and sunshine when there was none.”
- Hannah Waddingham
“romangerri isn’t over.” i say into the mic. the crowd boos. i begin to walk off in shame. a voice breaks through: “no she’s right.” i turn around and there she is. j. smith-cameron herself.
