Jason Sudeikis interview: Ted Lasso star on making a show that is too good for this cruel world
Jason Sudeikis is concerned if his new show, Ted Lasso, might be too good for this cruel world. But one of the things that drew him to the show was Sudeikis’ insistence that Ted Lasso be ‘hopeful and optimistic’. “He is an eternal optimist,” Sudeikis said, “but he’s also quite out of his depth, and he’s trying, and there’s charm in that.” The actor, best known for hit comedy films such as Horrible Bosses and We’re the Millers, credited his many years working on Saturday Night Live for having prepared him to perform even when he, like Lasso, found himself outside his comfort zone. “But working in a place like SNL, the writers would write something on Tuesday and they’d whisper in your ear on Wednesday, 20 minutes before you’re about to read for Lorne Michaels or some Oscar winner or Olympic athlete and just wing it.” It taught him trust, he said. “Just like anything that carries on — a sequel of a film, or a second season of a programme, or the second album of an artist or band you like — it takes people to responding to it for the people who pay for these things to say, ‘Yeah, we’ll pay for another one’,” Sudeikis said.
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