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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Hannah Wattingham has been singing and acting for nearly three decades,
- 0:06Speaker 2: but it wasn't until she landed the role of Rebecca
- 0:09Speaker 2: on ted Lasso that her career really took off. And
- 0:11Speaker 2: because of that long run, she genuinely appreciates the success.
- 0:14Speaker 3: Yeah, she opened up to a variety about finally getting
- 0:17Speaker 3: to the point where she doesn't have to audition for
- 0:19Speaker 3: roles anymore, and she doesn't take it for granted, of course,
- 0:22Speaker 3: but even still she wants to stay grounded, and she
- 0:25Speaker 3: says if a director didn't know her work, she still
- 0:29Speaker 3: meet up to sell him on her talents and things
- 0:31Speaker 3: like that.
- 0:32Speaker 4: And it's funny how from a totally different perspective, she
- 0:35Speaker 4: still struggles with not getting roles that she wants. It
- 0:38Speaker 4: used to be that she wouldn't get hired. Now she
- 0:40Speaker 4: has to pass on stuff that she wants to do
- 0:42Speaker 4: because she's just too busy.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Which is a better problem, I would think, a way
- 0:46Speaker 1: better problem.
- 0:47Speaker 2: One. Hannah did say yes to her new series Ride
- 0:49Speaker 2: or Die on Prime Now that's
- 0:51Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood