‘Ted Lasso’ Star Hannah Waddingham Wants to Play a Superhero ‘That Absolutely Busts Everyone’s Balls but Looks Fabulous Doing It’

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Add Hannah Waddingham to the list of actors who would love to be in a superhero movie. “Why do you think I’ve done sci-fi things in the past?” says the “Ted Lasso” star, whose credits include the television adaptation of “12 Monkeys” and “Krypton,” a Syfy series about Superman’s grandfather. “Why wouldn’t I want to play something that goes, ‘Oh, now you’re going to walk through that wall and kill everyone in the room and then shoot up to the sky?’” Does she have a particular superhero in mind? “All the Marvel characters are magnificent,” says Waddingham, who is in London with the cast and crew of “Ted Lasso” prepping to shoot the hit Apple TV Plus series’ third season in early March. “I want to be one that absolutely busts everyone’s balls but looks fabulous doing it.”… Jefferson Mays doesn’t have scientific proof, but he thinks a fake nose that he wore during the early days of previews of Broadway’s “The Music Man” may have kept him from getting COVID-19. “I’m convinced that the extra layer of protection of latex on my own nose, coupled with some like fairly noxious adhesive fumes, may have saved me,” Mays, who plays Mayor Shinn opposite Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, tells me, laughing, ahead of the revival’s opening on Feb.

10. “I may have inadvertently stumbled upon a cure.”“The Music Man” has had a bumpy ride to the Winter Garden Theatre, including producer Scott Rudin leaving the production amid allegations of longtime serious workplace misbehavior.

And then there’s the pandemic. Performances were canceled in early previews when Jackman tested positive for COVID. When Sutton contracted the virus, her understudy Kath.