Brett Goldstein recently commented on Ted Lasso‘s upcoming revival… but it sounded more like something out of a Stephen King story.
The series writer and Roy Kent actor compared the Apple TV+ series’ long-gestating fourth season, which he confirmed is “in the writers’ room at the moment,” to a friend’s cat that was seemingly brought back from the dead.
“I have a friend that I went to university with, and I think about this a lot,” he prefaced on the Wild Card podcast. “He had a cat that died. He loved his cat, and the cat was run over, and they buried the cat, buried it. And he was a child. They buried the cat in the garden, and he lay in bed so sad, so upset and crying, and he prayed and he prayed and he wished. ‘I wish the cat would come back.’ And then the cat did come back, and it turned out the cat they buried wasn’t their cat. And I think about that all the time.”
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Goldstein added, “And so, I’m like, no wonder this guy is fucked in the head, because he thinks death isn’t real, so of course he’s insane. He’s such a weird guy, cause he thinks he can bring things back from the dead.”
The Golden Globe nominee compared that god complex to Apple renewing the series for Season 4 last year, after co-creators Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly planned three seasons for the series.
“I guess I’m saying I feel like that kid,” explained Goldstein. “Like ‘We buried it… We all cried, we had a funeral. Are you saying we can bring anything back?’ It’s too much power.”
Sudeikis, Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple and Jeremy Swift have been confirmed to reprise their roles in Season 4, which was greenlit last month, seeing Sudeikis’ titular coach leading a women’s soccer team.
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