Keeley Hazell claims that she was imagined to play Juno Temple‘s function in Ted Lasso.

Should you forgot, Juno, 36, performed Keeley Jones in award-winning Apple TV+ comedy sequence, which earned her three Emmy nominations.

In an excerpt from her new memoir Everybody’s Seen My Tits: Tales and Reflections From an Unlikely Feminist, Keeley, 38, claimed that present creator Jason Sudeikis, whom she additionally dated, initially wrote the function for her.

Hold studying to seek out out extra…Keeley recalled assembly up with Jason, 49, “to debate the half he had written for me,” in accordance with the excerpt revealed by Us Weekly.

“He informed me in regards to the TV present. It was a soccer present set in England. It could movie in London,” Keeley wrote. “J was going to play the lead, Ted, a cheery and optimistic American soccer coach who’d come to teach a British soccer (soccer) workforce, which, should you haven’t discovered, is a completely completely different sport.”

She recalled, “The present hadn’t been picked up at this level, which means, it was only a script ready to be offered, however the concept of me being a lead in a TV present was sufficient to make me moist my pants with pleasure. I auditioned. I auditioned once more. In keeping with J, I used to be on the high of the listing, however casting needed to see one other scene. Within the third and closing spherical, J learn with me.”

Finally, Jason allegedly knowledgeable Keeley (by way of textual content) that she was going to be “supplied one other half” within the present.

“I felt like I’d been punched within the chest,” Keeley wrote. “As soon as I didn’t get solid as Keeley, I made a decision that performing may go f**ok itself.”

Keeley had a quick stint as a producer on Love Island earlier than taking up the small function of Bex in Ted Lasso.

She went on to write down that she placed on an “Oscar worthy” efficiency pretending to be “completely high-quality” with what went occurred together with her casting.

“It was higher than my performing within the present, which was dangerous. Simply terrible,” she recalled. “As an alternative of utilizing this as a possibility to show how good I used to be, I sabotaged myself on-screen with defiant disengagement.”

She additionally admitted that issues had been awkward for her as she was related to Ted Lasso for having the identical title as one of many important characters versus her precise work on the present.

“As for me? The one change I observed was once I went to order some meals and gave my title for the order and the server stated, ‘Oh, Keeley, just like the character from Ted Lasso!’” Keeley recalled. “He mistook my look of horror for confusion after which requested if I’d seen the present.”

She added, “That’s the opposite factor. Whereas I used to be simply somebody who was ‘form of well-known for being virtually well-known,’ as Ted Lasso’s Keeley Jones preferred to level out.”

Because the character “defied the stereotype—proving that ladies may be multifaceted,” Keeley stated she is somebody who has stumbled and struggled and survived.”

“I get to play the best function of my lifetime — the Actual Keeley, and right here she f–king is,” Keeley wrote.

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