This Friday, October 8, Apple + closes the second season of ‘Ted Lasso’ sealing its revelation series title that it garnered last year with the prestige that the awards give. The fiction about the optimistic football coach who won a place in the hearts of the players and fans of the AFC Richmond of the English Premier League this September won the jackpot for best comedy of the year at the Emmys, in addition to the award of best protagonist for Jason Sudeikis and the secondary ones for Hannah Waddingham y Brett Goldstein. But apart from public and critical recognition, if there is a topic that has been talked about this season the series has been because of the rumors about one of the main characters, the rude Roy Kent, and the possibility that an interpreter of flesh and blood did not give it life, but that it was recreated by an actor in a virtual way.
For a few months, in the Reddit forums the theory circulated that the former star of the AFC Richmond and now Ted Lasso’s assistant technician was actually a artificial creation using CGI (computer generated graphics). His pristine facial hair and profiled beard, along with the hieratic performance of Brett Goldstein, sparked speculation that Apple was experimenting with the character as if it were a player from the latest FIFA video game.
as long as the @tedlasso people can’t trace it to me, I’m sharing the truth about @brettgoldstein as Roy Kent #CGI pic.twitter.com/gMdCnhIxkF
— ActionMovieDad (@ActionMovieKid) September 1, 2021
Funny denial
There was so much talk about the case that even the actor himself had to come to the fore on his social networks denying the rumors by pulling English humor. Tucked behind a smiley with his face, Goldstein joked: “I am a completely real normal human male, who just happens to live in a special effects studio, and I do normal things like rendering, buffering or transferring data.” .
My final statement on the matter: pic.twitter.com/YPzNnOu4mg
— Brett Goldstein (@brettgoldstein) September 2, 2021
Screenwriter, producer and performer of ‘Ted Lasso’, Goldstein (Sutton, UK, 1980) entered the Apple + series thanks to Bill Lawrence (‘Scrubs’), co-creator of the acclaimed comedy with Sudeikis, whom he knew from one of the many pilots who had shot and who had not come to fruition. At first, he was hired only to write scripts, but he managed to convince his bosses that he was the one to play the foul-mouthed Roy Kent, the curmudgeon gambler in the twilight of his career. Although at first the bosses saw him more as Higgins, the efficient assistant to the president of the club.
Hardness and tenderness
Goldstein has known how to combine hardness and tenderness that required the role of Kent, who we see the same ranting against the referees both on the field of play and in his ephemeral stage as a sports commentator who almost acts as the father of his insightful niece, whom he usually babysits between games and games. match. Because tables were left over, after having participated in more than thirty titles, from the comedy about the elderly by Ricky Gervais ‘Derek’ and the fireproof ‘Doctor Who’ even the fantastic ‘Soulmates’, where he worked as a producer and screenwriter.
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His biography is also related to Spain, since after graduating from the University of Warwick in Cinema and Feminism was living for a time in Marbella. It was when his father bought a strip club during his “midlife crisis,” as his son defined it. The actor did not miss this curious life experience and captured it years later in a comedy show that he presented at an Edinburgh theater festival.
Already immersed in the writing of the third season of ‘Ted Lasso’, and after having fun writing and directing a parody on the hit reality ‘Love Island’, now it’s time to see if his coaching tactics (in fiction) are as effective as his acting talent (in fiction). real life). Will his character be decisive for AFC Richmond to climb back into the Premier League? Many viewers are convinced that his pragmatism is the best combination with the energetic positive philosophy of Ted Lasso.
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