Rebecca Welton

We said we, like we had the word ma'am because you know, Ted said ma'am in the pilot so much.

And, uh, The very first time Jeremy Swift, who played Higgins, called Rebecca Welton, ma'am, it sounded like mom.

And I was like, oh, that's a different show.

That's a different show.

The other person I came up with was Hannah Waddingham, who is from Ted Lasso.

Rebecca from Ted Lasso.

Yes.

Who has a singing, fabulous voice, but I think that she could do Miss Price also in like a slightly different way.

Kelly Jones.

and Leslie Higgins and Rebecca Welton.

See, it's all coming back to me because Google loaded.

So

Well, I loved, like you said, I loved how she handled the Gemma injury situation.

And not just how she handled it with Gemma, but having the sort of audacity on some level to go to Rebecca and be like...

This needs to be happening from the top down.

Like, we all need to, like, show up for her.

And that's kind of how Chilton gets to be the head coach.

Instead of being like...

Instead of him going to Rebecca and being like...

Alice is it.

you know I I I agree um I I thought boots believe you know the the boots accepting the gloves right i think recognizing that adapting i said this earlier doesn't mean abandoning her identity is strong um gemma learning that grit doesn't mean really playing through every injury um that's a that's a pretty big lesson there but i think Without a doubt.

And we didn't talk about Rebecca finally recognizing that her obsession with Rupert was creating some sort of blind spot for Zelda.

But we didn't really know when she recognized that, which is why I kind of put that one.

I'm a big believer in identifying your blind spots.

You really have to...

Trust but verify.

And Rebecca did not.

She didn't feel great at the beginning when Keeley was trying to hype Zelda up, but she didn't do anything about that.

That was fierce.

And I love Rebecca, but she, she reminded me of Rebecca Welton.

That was fierce.

That was fierce.

Fair.

I love that she told Rebecca first, 'cause that's her, you know, that's her best friend.

And it's not like she told the whole world before telling Roy, but it, I, I think, like, it, that made it real for her, enough for...

It gave her enough courage to tell Roy.

We meet Roy.

We meet Jamie.

We meet, you know, and then Rebecca, and it's like they introduce them all so slowly that it's like, oh, thank you for leading me here.

We're here for a team, and Rebecca's the villain, but she's not.

When our students are able to, to talk to each other and not just sit in their seat and sing and then leave, but create opportunities within the rehearsal to interact and genuinely care about each other, that, uh, that's a great reminder for me that I need to, to continue to, to do that and find new ways in the rehearsal.

But also, the, the cast is incredible in Ted Lasso, and the character Rebecca Welton, played by the fabulous Hannah Waddingham, um, there's, there's one part where she shares how nervous she is to talk in front of a group.

And specifically for her, she's the only female executive often talking in front of a lot of male executives.

And, uh, I, I, although I can't relate to that experience, I can relate to being nervous for something, and she does a great job of reminding herself that, "Yes, I can do this." And she gets up...

They sure did

... and I have to s- I have to say, it seems as though that uncomfortable feeling we were having with everyone, with like the way Keeley was dressing and her relationship with Roy, and the weirdness between Maddie and Rebecca, and you know, obviously whatever was going on with the stocks deal.

Uh, but it seems like the personal lives of the characters, uh, what was going on this whole season is that everyone was trying to be someone less than they wanted to be, which of course, is always Ted Lasso's job to come in and show them that, except for Chilton, maybe.

I think Chilton wanted to be [laughs] what she ended up becoming the whole time.

But let's, let's start with the stocks deal thing, because this was so funny.

[laughs]

Amazing double cross, right? We're like, everyone's like, "Is it gonna be Mae's shares? Is it gonna be the three Crown & Anchor guys' shares? How are they gonna get above the 50% thing?" Couple things I didn't see coming, that sometime between episode eight and nine, unbeknownst to all of us, Higgins and Rebecca figured out what Zelda was doing and brought in Hugo and the Milk sisters and e- Mae to, like, make it all ha- make it all work out.

Yeah.