'Ted Lasso' Star Brett Goldstein Shares Surprising Way His Role Roy Kent Makes Him Feel and Shares the Deciding Factor of the Show's Future
Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein says that playing Roy Kent has made him feel like he died in the BEST way.
Ted Lasso is arguably the most engaging, heartfelt, forgiving show being produced today. This is largely in part to one of the show's stars Brett Goldstein. Goldstein stars as the rough but loving Roy Kent, star soccer player turned coach. Goldstein is also one of the writers on the show. To this day, he is amazing and honored to be playing the role of Roy Kent. In an exclusive interview with Deadline the actor and writer said:
"I feel like I've died, you know what I mean? The fact that it's the greatest part in the greatest job with the greatest people, I feel so, so lucky. And also, the time in my career that it came, I was accepting, 'I think I've missed my slot.' I was doing stuff for 20 years, and it was all good stuff, but I don't think anyone really saw it, or noticed, and I had accepted, 'Well, this is it. I think I just make stuff that no one watches, and that's fine as long as I can pay my bills.'
"It was a gamble putting myself on tape for it. But I had a real sense, like a calling, for this part in this thing. So, I feel like it's magic, and I'm incredibly lucky, and terrified it all collapses, and you wake up, and it was a dream."
It has been recently announced that Goldstein will serve as an Executive Producer and writer on a new Apple TV+ series titled Shrinking. While we are excited to see what the future holds for Goldstein, we are also curious about what this means for the fate of our favorite football show. Ted Lasso was originally intended to be a three season limited series. However, due to the overwhelming success of the show, that decision has been called into question. According to Goldstein, the final decision rests in one man's hands.
"That's entirely up to Jason [Suedikis]. In terms of what we write, we've written this like it's the end. If there were to be more, obviously we could write more, but the story that we're telling is the three-act story that we were always going to tell, and it ends. I don't want to spoil it, but most of the characters die by the end [deadpans]. It's a real ending. It's a dramatic ending."
We can't wait to see the next season of Ted Lasso and Shrinking when they come to Apple TV+.
