Jason Sudeikis says if it weren't for Trump, Ted Lasso would be much more 'belligerent'
’s Tim Lewis, Sudeikis shares that he opted to lean into Ted’s cuddlier qualities around the same time Trump announced his first run for president in 2015. With Trump saturating the cultural market for gaffe-prone PR-“It was the culture we were living in,” Sudeikis shares. “I’m not terribly active online and it even affected me.
Then you have Donald Trump coming down the escalator. I was like, ‘OK, this is silly,’ and then what he unlocked in people… I hated how people weren’t listening to one another. Things became very binary and I don’t think that’s the way the world works. And, as a new parent – we had our son Otis in 2014 – it was like, ‘Boy, I don’t want to add to this.’ Yeah, I just didn’t want to portray it.”
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