Hannah Waddingham praises ‘unusual’ Jason Sudeikis for not being intimidated by her height

She has no scarcity of tall actress tales.

Hannah Waddingham, whose resume consists of “Recreation of Thrones” and “Intercourse Schooling,” grew to become a family title along with her Emmy-winning flip within the Apple TV+ hit “Ted Lasso.”

Viewers fell in love with Waddingham, 49, because the poised, but hilarious soccer membership proprietor Rebecca Welton.

However as Waddingham revealed on “The View” in June, she has typically been missed for roles due to her 5’11” stature.

Waddingham described auditioning for initiatives she knew she’d by no means get as a result of producers didn’t need her to tower over the male lead.

“Being a girl who’s not small — very tall — I had at all times struggled,” Waddingham advised Whoopi Goldberg and the panel of “The View” on the June 15 episode.

“The quantity of occasions they’d be like, ‘We’ve already forged a man who’s 5’7″.’ Whereas once I went into [‘Ted Lasso’], Jason [Sudeikis] was like, ‘I don’t care if she wears 4-inch heels. Let’s do it.’”

Although it might appear to be a low bar, when Sudeikis supported Waddingham, it made a fabric distinction in her profession.

“That could be a fully distinctive state of affairs to search out your self in,” she stated, “the place the person is so beneficiant that they wish to elevate you up and rejoice the whole lot that you’re and never that you just’re, like, some skinny-mini.”

“Ted Lasso” premiered in August 2020. Season 3 dropped within the spring.

“It was so good once I first joined — I used to be 45 after we began taking pictures, which in itself is fabulous and weird, [which is] ridiculous that it’s so uncommon — the truth that [Sudeikis] was identical to, ‘No, I don’t care that she’s taller than me,’” Waddingham stated.

She continued, “That they had the facility of Sudeikis, so it meant that they had the luxurious of going, ‘Yeah, however who’s excellent for each single one in every of these elements?’”