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How Brett Goldstein Handles Writing for His Character Roy Kent on ‘Ted Lasso’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. It's uncommon on TV
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  Speaker 1: shows for a star to also be a writer on
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  Speaker 1: the show, unless to the face or creator of a sitcom,
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  Speaker 1: but Ted Lasso is an exception, with Brett Goldstein playing
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  Speaker 1: Roy Kent and serving as a key member of the
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  Speaker 1: writing room, and the same goes with Brendan Hunt, who
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  Speaker 1: plays Coach Beard. One reason shows often avoid it is
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  Speaker 1: that it can create a dynamic where somebody writes for
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  Speaker 1: their benefit or their character rather than the show as
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  Speaker 1: a whole, and they make other writers suspicious that you're
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  Speaker 1: doing that. So how Brett navigate that, he tells Variety.
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  Speaker 1: For season one, none of the other writers knew I'd
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  Speaker 1: be playing Roy. Season two, they obviously knew I'm Roy,
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  Speaker 1: So I've tried not to pitch much Roy, because I
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  Speaker 1: truly do love all the characters and I'm invested in them.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the writers, Sasha Garon, always knew how
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  Speaker 1: I felt about a Roy Kent story pitch, in the
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  Speaker 1: same way if I pitched Coach Beard to Brendan almost subconsciously,
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  Speaker 1: I look at him, Sasha says, she knows if I
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  Speaker 1: like a pitch based on the angle of my eyebrows.
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  Speaker 1: Season three of Ted Lasso stream on Apple tv Plus
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  Speaker 1: that's direct from Hollywood.