About a possible return of the series for a fourth season, the Emmy-winning co-creator and actor says, 'Everything is on the table, including nothing.'
If you know Brendan Hunt only through his “Ted Lasso” role as the laconic Coach Beard, this might come as a surprise: He’s a born storyteller with plenty to say. Hunt, 50, has been on Apple TV+’s “Lasso” train since it began back in 2013 when he and co-star Jason Sudeikis crafted a Premier League ad for NBC Sports. A two-time Emmy winner for the show, Hunt doesn’t take himself too seriously and deeply understands the Dutch concept of, as demonstrated in the latest season’s episode “Sunflowers.
You spent years working and doing improv comedy in Amsterdam — as did Jason Sudeikis — and this season the show did a whole episode there. What’s the appeal?. Like, if you’re worried about something but can’t change it by worrying about it, then why worry? It permeates everything they do. When I used to go to Amsterdam I’d have crazy times, which I would never take back. Now when I go, I just want to stand in the park amidst all these contented people.
Because these three guys from Evanston, Ill., had taken some improv classes and took a post-college trip through Europe. Amsterdam was the first city where they were like, “We’ve got to find a way to live here.” This summer, they’ll celebrate their 30th anniversary of being in Amsterdam. They held auditions in Chicago, and you’d hear about this mythical place — and one year I was like, “F— it. I’m in the middle of getting divorced. I live in a studio with a futon. I’m open to change right now.
Totally. I was vaguely aware of soccer [before]. But in Amsterdam, the whole football world opened up. It’s a legitimate cultural experience. Never kicked a soccer ball for the entirety of my childhood. The closest I came was when someone gave me a Nerf soccer ball, which was yellow with blue [hexagons]. I picked out the blue so the whole ball would still be yellow. That’s how much I cared about the sport.
There’s a theme of “bad dad” that runs through the show, but just because you had a bad dad doesn’t mean you need to re-create whatever the problem was with every dude you meet. It doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to share your hard times. My dad’s dad died when he was 4, and he was the youngest of six siblings. All the rest were women. So he’s the only guy in the house, and what that engendered in him was a confusion over what exactly being a man is.
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