“I really love playing Roy Kent,” TedLasso star Brett Goldstein says. “People always say, ‘You don’t seem angry in real life.’ And I’m always like, ‘But I’m f---ing angry.’ And maybe there is a part of me that gets to process it through Roy.”
” co-creator how he feels about becoming a sex symbol. “This is the first I’ve heard of it,” he tells me, after almost doing a spit-take when I bring up what I’ve dubbed “Sexy Brett Goldstein.”
Goldstein is a two-time Emmy winner for playing the gruff footballer-turned-coach Roy Kent in “Ted Lasso,” now in the middle of its third season. Roy, known for his forceful use of the word “Fuck!” to punctuate his feelings, is the kind of angry yet sensitive character that causes audiences to melt — and swoon.“Yeah, the grumpy guy,” Goldstein says. “Maybe it’s hairy men. I seem to be the only person in L.A. in the last 15 years who has body hair. Maybe that’s a thing.
Goldstein says he hears all the time from people who marvel that he doesn’t seem to share the character’s rage. “I really love playing Roy Kent,” he says. “People always say, ‘You don’t seem angry in real life.’ And I’m always like, ‘But I’mLawrence sees shades of Roy in Goldstein but with key differences that make him a good collaborator on both sides of the camera. “The language and the darkness inside is real.
But he’s not complaining. Like with the Sexy Brett Goldstein stuff, he’s still adjusting to it all. “You just have to be grateful. Because this is it, right? I can’t undo it.” The star often jokes that he’s glad he didn’t achieve this level of success while in his 20s. “I’d probably be going insane, doing the Hollywood parties and ending up dead in a gutter,” he says and laughs, knowing that’s not really true. But Goldstein gets that the clock is ticking, and he wants to use that time wisely.
But “Shrinking” also tells the stories of the people around the little family, and how they’re struggling with changes in their own lives — including Harrison Ford’s character, who is adjusting to be diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Turns out that’s also a very personal storyline among the “Shrinking” creators for several reasons. For one, Lawrence remains tight with Michael J. Fox, having worked with him as the co-creator of “Spin City.
“So Brett was simultaneously writing on ‘Ted Lasso’ and then shooting ‘Ted Lasso,’ and then writing the movie ‘Nan,’ and then leaving Thursday through Sunday to run his own show in Mallorca, Spain, where he was the head writer. It was crazy,” Lawrence says. Goldstein was a comedy fan and collected Richard Pryor and Steve Martin albums. But in terms of film, he liked the dark stuff. Particularly horror. It was a TV show, though — “Twin Peaks” — that changed his life. Goldstein still remembers how he and his sister walked in on their dad watching the 1990 premiere and got hooked.
After a pause Goldstein explains how the “Twin Peaks” experience influenced his own writing. “The thing I always find fascinating about writing and making this stuff is how much you always want to surprise the audience. But there are payoffs. The thing of giving people what they want,” she says. “Either you give people what you want, and hopefully you do it in a surprising way, or you don’t. But sometimes there are certain things where it’s like, an audience has earned this.
“It’s why characters are interesting and why people are interesting,” he says. “And why you are probably interesting to yourself. Because you are born with a secret box inside you. And that box is filled with all kinds of shit. Sometimes stuff will come up. And you might behave in a way that you don’t like or that you wish you were better. That is what therapy is for.”
Nope, the answer is more complicated than that — and hysterical. Goldstein has put on a sour puss for the camera long before “Ted Lasso” came into his life. Really, all his life. “The first time I met Brett was on the Zoom pitch for ‘Shrinking,’ and Brett had a Muppets poster in the background,” Segel remembers. “It kind of indicated to me that our Venn diagram of tone might align. Because there’s something about the Muppets that is very earnest, not ashamed of real emotion and is never snarky. And that’s a big dividing line in comedy. I’ve always felt like being snarky was easy. Brett and I, I think, are kind of underneath it all pretty gentle dudes who want to be nice.
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