HE'S HERE!
TED LASSO'S BRETT GOLDSTEIN KNOWS HOW TO KEEP THE BALL IN PLAY.
HE'S THERE!
HE’S EVERY F*%#ING WHERE!
B Y MARY KAYE SCHILLING
BRETT GOLDSTEIN LIKES TO TALK ABOUT DEATH. ON HIS WEEKLY PODCAST, FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH, HE ASKS GUESTS TO IMAGINE THEIR OWN DEMISE.
and many of his guests are, too—the more ghoulishly funny the death, the better. But the point of the show is to talk about movies, so guests must then regale heaven’s residents with the story of their life, told through the films they loved most. Given this preoccupation, Goldstein is delighted to meet me at the Academv Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, a sort of heaven on earth for cinephiles. It’s two days after he won his second Emmy for his performance as Roy Kent on the series Tomorrow he’s flying back to London to finish shooting s third season finale—which is reportedly running so far behind schedule that the show will not return until 2023. “We’re obsessively perfecting the final script,” Goldstein says. His voice, higher and gentler than Kent’s South London growl, betrays none of the stress you’d expect from someone whose job it is to script the perfect denouement for what, according to multiple reports, would be the series finale. “It could be the end,” he says cryptically. “Could be.” Goldstein, 42, has been doing stand-up and appearing in British sitcoms for 20 years. He was moderately famous in the U.K., and not at all in the U.S., until Lasso premiered in 2020. The heartwarming sports comedy created by Jason Sudeikis (who plays the titular head coach), Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard), Bill Lawrence, and Joe Kelly had been turned down by every major streamer before then-newbie Apple TV+ scooped it up. No one, creators included, expected that a show would become a hit in America, let alone a global phenomenon. But turns out that in dark times, positivity wins.
