{"id":809270,"date":"2026-08-10T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809270\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:36:09","slug":"ted-lasso-star-tanya-reynolds-on-joining-season-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809270\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ted Lasso’ Star Tanya Reynolds on Joining Season 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs \u201cTed Lasso<\/a>\u201d returns for Season 4, Tanya Reynolds<\/a> is bringing a very different coaching style to AFC Richmond.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tReynolds joins Season 4 of the Apple TV<\/a>+ comedy as Alice Chilton, the coach of AFC Richmond\u2019s women\u2019s soccer team, whose tough, guarded demeanor couldn\u2019t be more different from Ted\u2019s signature optimism. Though Alice is initially perceived as \u201ccold\u201d and \u201cstandoffish,\u201d the coach\u2019s walls slowly start to come down, showing viewers her complex backstory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s a real juicy onion,\u201d the actress tells Variety during the July 27 premiere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-creator and star Jason Sudeikis offered Reynolds the role without showing her the script, walking her through Alice\u2019s personality rather than teasing the episodes themselves. \u201cJason had given me a very detailed rundown of who she was and what her storyline was. [Alice] was so far away from me, and it was a process of trying to figure out why she was so tough, why she was so cold and standoffish. I was trying to understand the psychology of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress is one of the many new faces joining the Emmy-winning comedy\u2019s highly anticipated fourth season, which premiered on Aug. 5, three years after the Season 3 finale. Despite her excitement, Reynolds admits joining such a beloved series came with plenty of pressure.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s really nerve-wracking to step into something that is so well-loved and try not to fuck it up. That\u2019s hard,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCreated by Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt, Bill Lawrence, and Joe Kelly, \u201cTed Lasso\u201d became one of Apple TV+\u2019s biggest hits, earning multiple Emmy Awards and racking up views that total more than 25 billion minutes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSharing the screen with Sudeikis and Hunt was like receiving a \u201cfree comedy show,\u201d Reynolds says, but it was also a challenge due to Chilton always being so stoic.\u00a0\u201cIt was so fun. It meant that I had to keep a straight face, because Alice rarely cracks a smile,\u201d Reynolds says. \u201cBut Jason and Brendan would want to make me laugh. They would make me laugh so much, where I was just constantly biting my cheeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tReynolds also stars alongside returning actors Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple and Jeremy Swift, as well as \u201cTed Lasso\u201d newcomers Abbie Hern, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay and Rex Hayes. \u201cIt\u2019s been a joy to go to work every day, because everyone is so nice. Everyone is so grounded,\u201d she says. \u201cThere are no dickheads.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso at the premiere was professional women\u2019s soccer team Angel City FC. Carina Lageyre, the team\u2019s midfielder, told Variety she was excited to see the show revived with an all-female team. \u201cIt\u2019s really cool to see the culture of a female side,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt shows how women are really powerful,\u201d player Riley Tiernan adds. \u201cI think we\u2019re tougher than men.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As \u201cTed Lasso\u201d returns for Season 4, Tanya Reynolds is bringing a very different coaching style to AFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5896,88,23540,13022,92],"class_list":["post-809270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apple-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tanya-reynolds","tag-ted-lasso","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}