Jason Sudeikis & Hannah Waddingham Give Impressive ‘Shallow’ Performance
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00:00 ♪ We're far from the shallow now ♪
00:04 - Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham
00:08 are performing together again for a worthy cause.
00:11 The Ted Lasso stars reunited on November 12th
00:14 at Jason's annual Thunder Gong charity event
00:17 in Kansas City, Missouri.
00:19 And they showed off their pipes
00:20 by singing Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's
00:23 hit duet "Shallow" from "A Star is Born".
00:27 ♪ In the shallow, shallow ♪
00:31 - The 48-year-old actor's annual charity event
00:33 is meant to raise money for amputees
00:36 who need help in his hometown.
00:38 Jason started the Oscar-winning song
00:39 with his longtime friend
00:41 and fellow Saturday Night Live alum, Will Forte,
00:44 before Hannah hilariously took over.
00:46 ♪ Tell me something, boy ♪
00:56 ♪ Is your child trying to fill that void ♪
01:00 ♪ Or do you need more ♪
01:04 - The dynamic duo's epic reunion comes less than six months
01:08 after the series finale of "Ted Lasso" premiered.
01:10 The Apple TV+ feel-good comedy series
01:13 won a total of 34 awards over the years
01:16 since its release in 2020
01:18 and was nominated for a whopping 127 awards.
01:22 Out of those awards,
01:23 the cast won Outstanding Comedy Series
01:25 with the Emmys in 2021 and 2022,
01:28 and they won the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance
01:30 by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2022.
01:34 Winning all of those awards was merited,
01:36 and it's a good thing Hannah was a part of it,
01:38 as she almost decided not to.
01:40 "Axis Hollywood" chatted with the 49-year-old
01:42 "Game of Thrones" actress back in September 2021
01:45 after she won an Emmy
01:46 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in "Ted Lasso,"
01:49 and she revealed why she almost passed
01:51 on the now-iconic role.
01:53 - I was talking to Jason.
01:54 I've spoken with Brett about the magic of "Ted Lasso."
01:57 When did you realize you guys had something special?
02:00 Was it pretty immediate or did it take time?
02:02 - Very early on.
02:03 I mean, I was only sent the pilot
02:06 and only Rebecca Welton's sides for that,
02:09 and I read it and I got annoyed 'cause I just thought,
02:11 "Oh, do you know what?
02:13 "There's no point in me going in for this
02:15 "because they'll go for some famous-y, famouser."
02:19 And I thought, "Well, I'll go along anyway,"
02:21 but it just annoys me 'cause I really,
02:23 I really would love this, and I knew,
02:25 and I knew how much it had got under my skin
02:28 and how much it was irritating me
02:29 that I thought I wasn't gonna get it.
02:31 That's when you know that something is precious.
02:34 - I love that.
02:35 So beautifully said and so true.
02:36 You talked about the fact
02:37 that it was your daughter's illness
02:39 that actually got you to the point
02:40 where you decided to audition?
02:42 - Yeah, well, no, she had been very ill.
02:43 I was shooting on "Crypton" in Belfast for Warner Brothers,
02:47 and I said to my rep, both here and in London,
02:50 "I can't have that moment
02:52 "where I can't get back to my girl again,
02:54 "so if it's something at home, then fine."
02:56 Then this meeting came in, and I was like,
02:59 "I would love to do that, but I can't.
03:02 "I know that the meeting,
03:03 "the chemistry read would be in LA and blah, blah, blah."
03:05 And then I came over here, and I said to Jason,
03:08 once we'd been kinda hanging for a while,
03:10 I went, "So where are you gonna shoot this?"
03:12 And he went, "Richmond," and I went,
03:14 "Richmond, as in like half an hour from my house?"
03:19 And I thought, "I'm gonna rugby tackle
03:21 "any woman to the ground who thinks she's having
03:22 "this part over me, and it's mine, mine."
03:26 - I would love to see that rugby tackle.
03:29 - I was literally like the eyes went, "You, you."
03:32 - Listen, you are too statuesque and gorgeous.
03:35 I would run the other way, you talk,
03:37 I'm like, "Mm-mm, that's your role, girl, that's your role.
03:39 "You have it."
03:40 - In my life, I was just like, "Ooh, it's mine."
03:43 - Oh, no.
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