![]() Waddingham says she spoke with Sudeikis about who would initiate the kiss because Matthijs “had been so gentlemanly-I feel like it would be her that just has to see and feel.” This is also why she says improvised Rebecca playfully hitting him with her scarf afterward in a move she says suggests, “Goddammit. The team worked with intimacy coordinator Pia Rickman to set up the particulars of the kiss, and Lipsey says he chose to shoot the embrace from “slightly under the eyeline” as opposed to getting too close. “They said, ‘it has to be a doozy.’ Is that a word?,” van der Grijn recalls. But she does give one more lasting impression, pulling her still-unnamed paramour in for a passionate kiss. Instead, “I thought about the woman that was trapped in a loveless, certainly on his part, marriage.” The actress says she didn’t think about whether Rebecca had had a one-night stand before. But I quite liked the fact that she’s playful with it.” ![]() She was so buttoned up that I think she would have given herself a hard time. But I wanted to convey that there was no sense of guilt, no sense of disdain, in her behavior, which I think previously there might have been from her. “I don’t think she can quite believe that she’s stayed over on this random man’s houseboat. So, would she be the one to feel more awkward and vulnerable? “I think she is the most zen and relaxed she’s ever been,” Waddingham says of the moment Rebecca enters the kitchen. Rebecca’s the one who woke up in someone else’s house. ![]() It’s also a twist on the familiar do-si-do that is the morning after a first (or only) tryst. Lipsey says an actual boat was used as a holding space during filming “and even this time spent on that people were a bit wobbly afterward. ![]() A Custom-Built BoatĪ night on a houseboat might be a thrill, but filming on one is a different story entirely. While on set, the actors had the kind of get-to-know-you conversations one might have on a first date bonding over similarities like the fact that Waddingham’s former partner, Gianluca Cugnetto, was raised in Italy. He says they liked van der Grijn’s performance because “he had a stillness about him that still has a gravitas too it has a little bit of the weight of the world.” Matthijs is making eggs when Rebecca wakes up, so van der Grijn forwent the typical neutral backgrounds for self-taped auditions and asked his wife to film him making breakfast for his kids.ĭirector Lipsey says that casting for Ted Lasso is “a fairly democratic process” even if star and co-creator Jason Sudeikis has the final vote. There was at least one part of the character he did bring home with him. He hadn’t seen the show when he submitted a self-tape. Ted Lasso might be a hit in the US, but Dutch Italian actor van der Grijn said when we spoke this spring that Apple TV+ was just beginning to promote it in Holland. “A Little Bit of the Weight of the World” As Waddinghham points out, in the series’s pilot episode, the first time you see her is lost looking at a picture that her asshole husband had given her.” Rebecca’s rivalry with her ex, Rupert ( Anthony Head) defined her for much of the show’s early episodes, but when she and Matthijs reunite in the finale, it’s Rebecca’s name they both uttered.īecause so much is left unsaid in those final moments on the barge, Vanity Fair asked Waddingham, van der Grijn, and “Sunflowers” director and series supervising producer Matt Lipsey how they created one of the least awkward mornings after ever, for a new installment in our Making a Scene series. Waddingham explains that this moment also helps set the course for a new chapter in Rebecca’s life, a journey toward stability before she and the stranger reconnect in the season (not series, she stresses) finale.
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