Brett Goldstein compares ‘Ted Lasso’ return to bringing a dead cat back to life
"We buried it… We all cried, we had a funeral. Are you saying we can bring anything back? It’s too much power" The post Brett Goldstein compares ‘Ted Lasso’ return to bringing a dead cat back to life appeared first on NME.
Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein has compared the show’s season four return to cat returning from the dead.
Since its 2020 debut, the Apple TV+ show about an American coach taking over a British football team has won over an army of fans, as well as taking home two Golden Globes and 11 Primetime Emmys.
Appearing on the New Heights podcast earlier this year, producer and star Jason Sudeikis confirmed he was in the process of writing the fourth season. “That’s the official word,” he said, before adding “Ted’s coaching a women’s team, so there, that’s it”.
That news was followed by an official press release which read: “Apple TV+ today announced that the global phenomenon Ted Lasso is officially returning back to the football pitch for a fourth season that will reunite the team behind the history-making and multi-Emmy-winning comedy series.”
Co-writer Brett Goldstein also confirmed a popular fan theory that the Apple TV+ series was inspired by The Wizard Of Oz, and more recently addressed the show’s upcoming revival with a light-hearted anecdote.
“I have a friend that I went to university with, and I think about this a lot,” he explained on the Wild Card podcast (via Deadline). “He had a cat that died. He loved his cat, and the cat was run over, and they buried the cat, buried it.
“He was a child. They buried the cat in the garden, and he lay in bed so sad, so upset and crying, and he prayed and he prayed and he wished. ‘I wish the cat would come back.’ And then the cat did come back, and it turned out the cat they buried wasn’t their cat. And I think about that all the time.”
He continued: “And so, I’m like, no wonder this guy is fucked in the head, because he thinks death isn’t real, so of course he’s insane. He’s such a weird guy, cause he thinks he can bring things back from the dead.”
In an April 2023 interview with NME, cast member Nick Mohammed was asked about a possible Ted Lasso season four, and said: “Whether it will end, whether it’ll be a film [next], whether there’ll be a break and then season four, I don’t know.”
Now, given co-creators Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly initially planned the series to run for three seasons, Goldstein said he felt in a similar position to his friend.
“I guess I’m saying I feel like that kid,” he concluded. “Like, ‘We buried it… We all cried, we had a funeral. Are you saying we can bring anything back?’ It’s too much power.”
Sudeikis and Goldstein, as well as Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple and Jeremy Swift have all been confirmed to reprise their roles in the upcoming season.
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