Jason Sudeikis reveals how former US President Donald Trump helped him in the development of Ted Lasso’s character
Jason Sudeikis said that it was Donald Trumps who influenced Ted Lasso's character to be nicer.
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According to star and creator Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso” is a nicer character because of Donald Trump. In a recent interview, Sudeikis said he was having dinner with his then-romantic partner Olivia Wilde in 2015 when he wondered if he could revisit a character called Ted Lasso that he had created for a comedy skit two years earlier.,
Lasso, according to Sudeikis, was originally “belligerent.” Growing political tensions at the time inspired him to develop the character in a new direction. In the interview, Sudeikis said, “It was the culture we were living in. 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.”
Sudeikis then paraphrased Mahatma Gandhi as he said, “You know, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’. Well, how about, ‘Write the change you want to see in the world’? Part of the joy of getting to do this neat job I’ve got to do is the wish-fulfilment. Not just getting to play the characters, but also, what do you want to put out there into the world?”
Sudeikis and some of the other members of the show’s cast recently visited President Joe Biden at the White House in March. The visit was for a discussion about mental health.
The third season of “Ted Lasso” is currently streaming on Apple TV+. The show is produced by Warner Bros. Television. It is part of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Jason Sudeikis doesn’t seem to think his split with Olivia Wilde is an “end of something”: Reports
Jason Sudeikis doesn’t look at his split with Olivia Wilde as the “ending of something”. The Ted Lasso actor recently broke up with Olivia in November 2020. They had two children together, Otis and Daisy. Ever since the split both have been busy over a custody battle for the kids. But Jason has now compared the end of their relationship to adding experiences to their lives.
In a recent interview, while talking about the split, Sudeikis said, “I don’t think it’s the ending of something, as much as now we’ve added three or four charms to the bracelet of our lives. Until I’m faced with being on a plane that’s supposed to go down, or some biopsy brings back some bad news or some other major shift happens in my life or someone near and dear to me’s life, I have no reason not to be as optimistic as the character I’ve been lucky enough to portray for the last three years… I have no complaints. Leave that to the experts.” But even with the custody fight still on, both Olivia and Jason are united in their legal fight against their former nanny.
The former nanny claimed that, once Wilde moved out, she suffered increased stress and anxiety. It was due to how much more time she had to spend with their children in her absence. The legal documents about the nanny’s case stated, “The pressure of (Ericka) not only being the primary caretaker of the children but also filling in Wilde’s absence for the children, became debilitating.” The nanny worked for the actors from 2018 until 2021. And she is reportedly suing for punitive damages, attorney’s fees, and cost of the lawsuit.
Although in this case, Olivia and Jason have reportedly claimed that the nanny was never actually fired she resigned. She then offered to help them out for an extra five months. The former couple also said that they also doubled her salary at the end of 2020. They claimed Genaro threatened to tell the media about her time as their nanny.
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