Is Ted Lasso joining a new team?
On the March 14 episode of theNew Heightspodcast, the actor, 49, revealed one major change for thenewly-announcedfourth season ofTed Lasso.
“Is there season 4? Is it in the works?” hostJason Kelceand his brotherTravis Kelce, added, “Are we allowed to say that?"
“I think you can ask it, yeah. That’s what we’re writing,” Sudeikis responded. “We’re writing season 4 now.”
He added, “That’s the official word, yeah. Ted’s coaching a women’s team.”
As fans may recall,the end of season 3saw Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) pitching Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham) an exciting new project of AFC Richmond women’s team, while the beloved coach Lasso arrived back in America to be with son Henry.
When Travis, 35, asked if Ted was “coming back to the states,” Sudeikis said, “That’s too many questions.”
“We’ll leave it at that,” Travis responded with laughter and Sudeikis added, “And it’s only because I don’t have — I don’t know.”
Sudeikis admitted that working on the highly-anticipated new season was “exciting” and “daunting” because “we told the story we wanted to tell, but there’s more there and it is a neat group of people to work with.”
He added, “It’s a wonderful group of people, and characters to write around.”
Amidthe actors' andwriters' strike in 2023, he recalled that “the universe kept just saying things,” adding, “whether [it was] kind folks at airports, or on the internet, or friends of my folks or just other people in the industry… and I was just like, ‘OK, I hear you.’'
On the podcast, Sudeikis also opened up about howTed Lassocame to be. TheSaturday Night Livealum first played the character inNBC Sports promo videosseven years before the show premiered in August 2020.
However, he thought it would be a “more fun play” to create a “softer version” of the character.
“And so that’s where the voice sort of came out, which was just a way that I would talk when you’re just sort of doing stuff with your friends and joking around, and playing a certain type, voice type coach,” he said. “And it sounded a little bit like Bill Self, sounded a little bit like Roy Williams.”
However, he noted, “it wasn’t specifically after them.”
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“As we all continue to live in a world where so many factors have conditioned us to ‘look before we leap,” Sudeikis said in a press release. “In season four, the folks at AFC Richmond learn to ‘leap before they look,’ discovering that wherever they land, it’s exactly where they’re meant to be.”
source: people.com
