Jason Sudeikis Reveals Ted Lasso’s Kindness Was Inspired By “Donald Trump’s Elevator Descent”
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deadline.comJason Sudeikis’s award-winning creation of Ted Lasso was inspired, in part, by the arrival of Donald Trump on the political scene.
The actor told the UK’s Guardian newspaper that, back in 2015, he was pondering revisiting a character he’d previously created for a comedy skit.
Lasso was originally more “belligerent” but the politics of the time persuaded Sudeikis to take him in a warmer direction. Sudeikis told The Guardian: “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.
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