“If you're not ready to stop being with someone, I don't really know how to cope with it.” - Hannah | Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham on Richmond Till We Die, Ted Lasso Season 3
Jason Sudeikis talking about the 2x08 locker room scene/royjamie hug on the latest episode of Brett's podcast.
Transcript:
"It's one of those times that, one of those things we talked about in the writer's room here and there. It's like, yeah, a scene can take its time when it has a good, you know I would say punchline.
Like even if it's not for a laugh, it's like, oh but if you know what it is, like we can take...we can have James Tartt keep needling his son and make that slow walk across the room, because we know that Roy's going to make that quick walk across after he gets escorted out.
And then, we didn't even have the George Harrison song at that point but you knew it was one of those things where you just, I know it'll present itself when it's supposed to be...just, we didn't need it there. It already had music to it. Already had you know, lifts and drops and falls and it felt orchestrated in a way that was just...
I mean we pretty much worked backwards from that hug, if I remember correctly. Or to a degree. I just remember seeing the hug very clearly, and just being like 'okay.'"