Ted Lassois gearing up for season 3!
In the photo, Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) comes face to face with Nate (Nick Mohammed) after his shocking betrayal at the end of the last season. True to fashion, Ted is pictured smiling while Nate, dressed in all black, gives Ted a more serious stare down.
Fans will recall that at the conclusion of season 2, “Nate the Great” stormed off the field, tore down Lasso’s “Believe” sign and began his journey as head coach of competing team West Ham United.
In August, series editor Melissa McCoy opened up about Nate’s unlikely character arc.
“I hope people remember to love him, even though they hate him,” McCoy said onThe Hollywood Reporter’sBehind the Screenpodcast. “He’s making you feel that [dislike] so strongly because he’s doing such a good job [on screen].”
That same month, Mohammeddiscussed Nate’s transitionfrom underdog to antagonist in an interview with PEOPLE.
“It was fun, in a sense that, as an actor, you relish an opportunity to try something different,” he said. “It was certainly challenging in that if I had a comfort area, it was in doing the slightly bumbling, awkward Nate.”
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“I was able to find my way through that a lot easier because there were lots of jokes written into that,” he added. “And then to find myself be the villain of the piece, I guess second to Rupert, who’s the ultimate villain … it’s a fun place to start season 3 from, that’s for sure.”
There’s also “new blood” on the AFC Richmond team.
“That invigorates what’s happening in the locker room,” McCoy toldThe Hollywood Reporter.
In June, writer and starBrett Goldstein, who plays Roy Kent, confirmedthe show would concludeafter the upcoming third season. “We are writing it like that. It was planned as three [seasons],” he told theSunday Times.
“The nice part of the show, is about people trying to be better. And that’s unusual,” Goldstein noted. “Our public discourse [on social media] is terrible. It is now normal for people to be horrible to each other. Our show shouldn’t be as refreshing as it is — that says more about the world it was brought into. I’ve got far more stories about people being lovely than about people being a nightmare.”
He added, “I can’t speak for fans. But I can speak about how it has shaped us. Ted is our best selves — he tries to bring out our best selves.”
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source: people.com
