It is five in the afternoon and Juno Temple is giving off slumber-party vibes. Curled up close to her webcam, blond hair cascading everywhere, she is on a bed surrounded by cushions, some leopard-print, others fluffy and candyfloss-pink, in a friend’s west London flat. This is home for the 32-year-old actor whenever she is in town from Los Angeles to shoot Ted Lasso, the cockle-warming smash-hit sitcom about an ebullient US coach (Jason Sudeikis) managing an English football team. Temple plays Keeley, a smarter-than-she-looks Wag who runs her own PR company. First seen tottering into a packed changing room to whisk her boyfriend off for a chest-wax, she is prone to philosophical posers such as: “What would you rather be – a lion or a panda?”
The show is midway through shooting its third season. Temple hasn’t been filming today – “I’ve been doing fittings and taking lots of deliveries of very nice, beautiful things,” she says in her chirpy-posh voice, right before the doorbell chimes again – though she did just receive last-minute rewrites for the next episode. “Sometimes they arrive the morning you’re filming,” she says brightly. “Keeps the brain ticking!”
