Entertainment Could Ted Lasso have spin-offs? Jason Sudeikis respondsActor and creator spoke about possibilities for the future of the Apple TV+ series, which ends May 31st today at 14:13

With just three episodes to go in the third and final season of Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis does not rule out the possibility of spin-offs for the series Apple TV+. In an interview published by The Guardian this Sunday (14th), the creator and protagonist of the series only confirms that the end is just that story, as we know it.

“The show may end, but what we learn here… it’s not like Las Vegas: what happens here, stays here. No. What happens here you take and carry with you, to your village, your family, to your next project. Really! It’s not like that with funerals – you don’t just celebrate the dead, but you also remember that you’re alive?”

The 47-year-old actor also celebrated the fact that the series happened to him at an advanced stage of his career, which would have guaranteed him more “creative autonomy”.

“It’s good that it came later in my career. I’ve had the good fortune to work in a variety of places, with some things going well and some things not so much. I’ve come to realize how important it is to have an alchemy with the people you work with.”

Ted Lasso and the ‘Donald Trump Effect’

Sudeikis is also revealed to have changed the original personality of Ted Lasso, for the Apple TV+ TV series. The actor revealed that the football coach created by him would initially be more ‘belligerent’. And what made you change your mind? Well… it was Donald Trump.

The revelation was made in the same interview published last Sunday (14) in The Guardian, to which Sudeikis recalled Ted Lasso’s initial design. The character had existed since 2013, before the series debut, but with a less optimistic personality than the TV version.

Asked what made him change direction, Sudeikis said it was “the culture we live in”.

“I’m not terribly active online and it got to me. And then you had Donald Trump coming down a level, so I saw what he did to people and I thought ‘okay, that’s stupid.’ listening. Things got very binary and I don’t think the world works that way. And as a new parent – we had our son Otis in 2014 – I thought ‘man, I don’t want to make this worse’. That’s not how I wanted to play it. [Ted Lasso]”.

The last episode of Ted Lasso comes to Apple TV+ on May 31, 2023.