Juno Temple recently experienced a full circle moment during the World Cup.
During one of her recent hotel stays, she turned on the βtelly,β only to witness one of her own commercials. βTed Lassoβ fans can recall that in the first season, Templeβs character Keeley, the spunky and ambitious model-turned-PR-marketing pro, sees herself promoting Liverpool on the hotel television.
βI was just in LA for a brief moment in time, and I actually got to stay at the Sunset Tower Hotel, and the Chase commercial was playing when you turn the telly on,β she tells TODAY.com. βAnd I was like, βOh my god, thatβs me! Oh, my god! … Thatβs never happened to me before. I had a total moment.β
Temple described the moment as βcrazy,β adding that life played out in a way that mirrored the commercial scene in the show.
βIt legitimately happened to me!β Temple says.
Temple stars in a Chase Sapphire Reserve campaign that celebrates the summer of soccer. It also includes football player Myles Garrett and Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim. In the spot, Temple helps the couple learn more about soccer, (or, how itβs known around the world, βfootballβ), demystifying the sport for American audiences.
Thanks to her βTed Lassoβ ties, Temple has gotten to learn more about the global sport and even had the opportunity to attend Argentinaβs 3-1 win against Switzerland at the July 11 World Cup match.
Below, in her own words, Temple shares her favorite World Cup memories, highlights and more.
What is your earliest memory of watching a World Cup?
Oh boy, they would all be a bit blurred now because itβs always through my brothers. Truthfully, my brothers are the diehard football fans, so I just like being around (them). So anytime they want to watch a game, Iβll sort of tap in and tap out with them. But my earliest World Cup memory, I genuinely donβt actually remember it. Itβs just always a part of (our lives).
I remember one when I was in New York and it was playing a lot, and I remember just everybody being on the streets of New York. But that would have been a few years ago now.
What has been your World Cup highlight?
We got to go to a game, which was insanely exciting. I got to take my little brother, who is a football fanatic, and we got to see Argentina play Switzerland. (It was) honestly iconic, especially getting to watch my brother watch (Lionel) Messi play. He was wearing a Messi shirt and I did a sneaky thing where I filmed the back of his shirt, and then I zoomed in on the real Messi, and I sent it to him.
I got to do this thing with the Chase team this year, where we got to go and have dinner on the pitch, which was so crazy because Iβve never actually been out onto a football pitch before, let alone to have dinner. And it was right after America had played. This was in San Francisco, and when you see the scale of the pitch, and youβre aware of how big that space is, and just how active all the players are in that space for that length of time, I was like, βThis is insane!β That honestly blew my mind. That was a pretty incredible experience.
(Between) taking my brother to the game and (the dinner), this will be a World Cup I will never forget. Is all Iβm gonna say. This World Cup will be one ingrained in my memory for eternity.
What is a soccer fact that youβve learned since being part of βTed Lassoβ?
Thereβs a quote about a hair dryer. Iβm gonna look it up because I honestly had no idea what it would have meant at all. OK, here we go. βThe βhair dryer treatmentβ is a famous football cliche describing a manager thatβs fiercely shouting at a player or a team in close quarters.β
And then on top of that, at the dinner on the pitch, Rio Ferdinand was the other guest there and it was his coach, (Alex Ferguson) that had actually coined that term! And I was like, βOh my god, oh my god!β So thatβs the first thing that comes to mind.
And then the second thing is just actually going out onto a pitch and seeing the size of the space that the players are playing on.