Ted Lasso ‘changed his personality’ because of Donald Trump, says Jason Sudeikis

Jason Sudeikis revealed to have altered the original personality of Ted Lassofor the series of Apple TV+. The actor, who stars as the title character in the show’s third and final season, revealed that the football coach he created would initially be more ‘belligerent’. And what made you change your mind? Well… it was donald trump.

The revelation was made in an interview published last Sunday (14) in the 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]”.

Can Ted Lasso have spin-offs?

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 Apple TV+ series. In the same interview with The Guardianthe creator and protagonist of the series just 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 last episode of Ted Lasso comes to Apple TV+ on May 31, 2023.