You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and these are Daniel Howitt's interviews,

with the co-creator, writer, and star of Ted Lassau, Brendan Hunt, and co-star, Cola the King.

Brandon, thank you so much for making time. It is such a pleasure to talk with you. I really appreciate you.

You chat with me today. A pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me.

So are you tired of people asking you if this is the last season of Ted Lasso yet?

I feel like that's all I hear these days. Are those questions?

Yes and no. I mean, you know, we're currently in the throes of the press tour. So this is when it comes up the most. But the fact that people ask so much is a sign of how much people care about the show. So, you know, it's a good problem to have.

For sure. For sure. You know, what I've heard you say is that you know this is the conclusion

of the arc and that so it's not necessarily serious value but you guys will kind of see

what comes next is that is that right did I sum it up right yeah yeah there's definitely

there's definitely a ending of a kind that is coming at the end of this season.

And what we do from there remains to be seen.

Maybe it'll be nothing.

Maybe it won't.

Awesome.

Well, then, I won't waste any more time talking about that because it's been talked about to death.

So I want to hear about Coach Beard.

Coach Beard is such a unique character in that we, he's clearly main character, but

we really don't

know that much about him personally, kind of an enigmatic character to a degree. How does,

how does that inform your performance or how you approach becoming Coach Beard? He's really fun to

play for me because, you know, the world doesn't know this because the world doesn't see me, you know, do my various, like, plays and solo shows.

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