81-year-old Joy Behar stated Wednesday on the speak present’s Behind the Table podcast that she rejected the chance to play Ted Lasso‘s mother in season 3.
By doing so, she gave up a job that scored actress Becky Ann Baker an Emmy nomination.
“You were contacted about the possibility to be on my favorite show of all time,” View producer Brian Teta stated on the podcast. “You were dismissive of it because it would require you to spend your hiatus in London,” Teta added.
Behar blamed the unseasonable climate within the UK.
“It was too hot, you remember? There was a heat wave going on at that time, like, 100-degree weather, and I’d have to get on a plane and go in the middle of the heat? No,” Behar stated. “Listen, I’m a writer, I write my own stuff, I don’t care about other people’s stuff. I don’t need to be in everything.”
Teta stated Ted Lasso was “the hottest show on TV.”
Behar shortly countered. “It was not the hottest show on TV,” she stated. “If they were doing it in the spring, I would’ve done it maybe, or in the fall, but not in the middle of the heat wave.”
When Teta talked about the Emmy nod, Behar merely stated, “Well, good for her,” Behar stated. “Bravo.”
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