Everyone in a good team is aware of their responsibilities. There is just so much place for stars. Some people need to find other ways to contribute, whether it’s covering for those main performers or supporting them so they can give their best work.
Ted Lasso, an endearing sports comedy for Apple TV+, depends on Keeley Jones to hold everything together. She appears in scenes with the players, coaches, and owners, which contributes to the show’s funny and inventive wire-crossing. In the first season, Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster), a young, egotistical attacker, and Roy Kent, an older midfielder, are two AFC Richmond players with whom she has significant interpersonal issues (Brett Goldstein). Despite the fact that she begins the series as Jamie’s girlfriend, she ends things with him and develops affections for Roy while also acting as a sounding board for Ted (Jason Sudeikis) and the team’s deceitful owner Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham).
Even though she is only 32 years old, Juno Temple, the actress who plays Keeley, has been involved in the film and television industries for more than 20 years prior to being nominated for an Emmy for “Ted Lasso.” Despite having played the star before, she has a lot of experience in playing important supporting roles that provide that extra something unique to a production and raise the quality of a movie or television show. Here are some examples that you may be familiar with.
Juno Temple climbed the rock music ladder in Vinyl
Temple was chosen to appear in HBO’s ambitious musical series “Vinyl,” produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, which chronicled the musical revolution of the 1970s brought on by the arrival of disco, punk, and hip-hop.
Temple portrays Jamie Vine, an assistant in the A&R division of struggling record label American Century who is eager to advance. When the label’s owner Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) demands that she bring him cutting-edge talent, she realises that she has her chance. She comes upon the proto-punk band Nasty Bits, fronted by the sneering Kip (James Jagger; in case you’re wondering, yes, he is Mick Jagger’s son).
In the first season of the programme, Jamie tries to arbitrate between the label and the band by persuading Richie and the suits to embrace the new sound and encouraging Kip and the other band members to put more of themselves into their performances, which will give the song the kind of vitality it requires. She isn’t afraid to use sex and drugs to advance in the world of rock ‘n’ roll, but this ultimately gets her into issues with Richie, who fears she will have a negative impact on Nasty Bits and fires her from the band.
A second season of “Vinyl” might have offered Jamie the opportunity to start moving up the ladder once more, but viewers will never know the specifics of how that would have transpired. After the first season’s end, HBO cancelled the pricey programme.
Juno Temple got the wrong man in Atonement
In the historical drama “Atonement,” which was adapted from the Ian McEwan novel, Temple played her first significant on-screen role.
When Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and Cecilia (Keira Knightley) are visiting the two at their home, Temple plays Lola Quincey, who becomes entangled in Briony’s erroneous campaign against the housekeeper’s son, Robbie Turner (James McAvoy). The two are subsequently found entwined in the library, and Briony mistakenly interprets a scene and a letter between Cecilia and Robbie, thinking that Robbie is molesting her sister. Later, when a man makes an attempt to rape Lola, Briony charges Robbie, who is then prosecuted for the offence and sent in jail.
Years later, Briony (now portrayed by Romola Garai) learns that the guy who actually attacked Lola that night was Paul Marshall, a close member of the Tallis family, while she is present at Lola’s wedding to Paul (Benedict Cumberbatch). But before his name can be cleared and he can be reunited with Cecilia, Robbie dies of an infection from wounds he sustained while fighting the Nazis on the continent after being released from prison.
Juno Temple played a good fairy in Maleficent
Disney Temple maintained a busy schedule in the years following “Atonement,” securing parts in both independent movies like “Little Birds” and “Killer Joe” and mainstream ones, such as 2011’s critically panned “The Three Musketeers” in which she played Queen Anne and a minor role as Selina Kyle’s accomplice in “The Dark Knight Rises.”
In Disney’s 2014 retelling of the “Sleeping Beauty” tale, Maleficent, Temple played the green fairy Thistlewit. Imelda Staunton and Lesley Manville, who respectively played the red and blue fairies in the movie, put her in the heart of an odd mini-ensemble made up of skilled English actresses. Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning) is sent to live with the three pixies, but due to their inefficiency, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) is allowed to enter her life. Maleficent discovers, much to her surprise, that she cares for the girl despite the curse she put on her. However, the fairies accidentally set Aurora up to satisfy the curse’s requirements by disclosing the spell and Maleficent’s part in it.
Temple, Staunton, and Manville all performed the motion capture work required to portray the fairies in fairy form while also acting as them in human form. For Maleficent’s follow-up film, “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” Temple and her partners reprised their Thistlewit roles.
Juno Temple tried to warn her mother about Dirty John
Temple was paired with TV heavyweights Connie Britton and Julia Garner on Bravo’s true crime series “Dirty John” two years after “Vinyl.”
In the first season of the anthology series based on a well-liked podcast created by the Los Angeles Times, Temple played Veronica Newell. Debra Newell (Britton), a prominent interior designer who is duped into falling in love with John Meehan, is the mother of Veronica (Eric Bana). After John and Debra’s rapid courtship results in their marriage, their mother ultimately comes to believe and understand Veronica and her sister Terra (Garnermisgivings )’s about John.
Debra learns from their post-marriage lives that maybe her daughters had a point. When she digs more into John’s past, she finds a pattern of similar relationships that he left behind. John seeks to exact revenge on her daughters as their marriage starts to fall apart. While waiting outside Veronica’s apartment, he runs away as she returns home and spots him. Instead, he focuses on Terra and uses a knife to attack her in a parking lot. She fights him off, disarms him, and uses the knife to stab him, ultimately killing him.
Juno Temple was unlucky in love in Far From the Madding Crowd
When she was chosen to star in Thomas Vinterberg’s film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel “Far From The Madding Crowd” in 2015, Temple returned to the historical romance genre.
Temple plays a supporting role that complicated the main heroine’s romantic life, same like in “Atonement.” Her Fanny Robin is set to wed Sergeant Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge), a soldier, but a mix-up causes her to go to the incorrect chapel first, and he breaks off the engagement when he is left at the altar.
Troy then develops feelings for Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who elopes with him against the advise of her ex-boyfriend-turned-farmer Gabriel as a result (Matthias Schoenaerts). Gabriel’s counsel turns out to be sound; Frank gambles excessively and declines to assist Bathsheba and Gabriel on the farm. However, he swears to look after Fanny when he sees her begging and pregnant one day in the town. Despite his best efforts to help, she and the baby pass away during childbirth, and in his grief, Bathsheba walks into the water, where he appears to drown.
The apparent and actual deaths of Fanny and Frank don’t disrupt the book’s love triangle. Bathsheba finds herself in an unpleasant situation after his unexpected return a few weeks later, as she is now being courted by both Gabriel and her affluent neighbour, William Boldwood (Michael Sheen). When Frank shows up at a party and confronts Bathsheba, Boldwood kills him during his tirade, relieving Bathsheba from all the obstacles to her relationship with Gabriel.
