Roy Kent actor Brett Goldstein struggles not to swear like his Ted Lasso character as he accepts his Emmy award. Some fans believe Goldstein is actually a CGI creation, but in fact he’s a real person who serves as both a writer and actor on the Apple TV+ breakout comedy hit.
Goldstein’s Kent of course began season 1 of Ted Lasso on the football pitch as a veteran member of the show’s AFC Richmond soccer team. However, by season’s end the gruff and foul-mouthed Kent saw his soccer career end due to knee injures. On the bright side, he also struck up a relationship with the team’s marketing guru Keeley Jones (Juno Temple). In season 2, Kent has grown further as a character by leaving his TV post to become an assistant coach on Richmond while also forging a relationship with his niece. In one particularly touching moment, the endlessly-swearing Kent picked up his niece at school after she got in trouble for emulating his use of cuss words and brilliantly explained to her why it's OK for him to swear but not OK for her.
Goldstein’s memorable work bringing to life the irascible and secretly sweet Roy Kent indeed paid off last night at the Emmys as he took home the prize for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy. Of course award-winners are expected to keep their speeches short and curse-free at such presentations, but Goldstein just couldn’t resist dropping a couple of Roy Kent-like F-bombs as he accepted his prize. See the uncensored version of Goldstein’s speech in the space below (via @thelonelyisland):
Goldstein’s relatively curse-free speech shows that the actor is actually not all that far away from the character he plays on Ted Lasso. Roy Kent’s voice is of course a little more gravely and his manner more gruff, and his use of swear words more profuse. And obviously Goldstein does some interesting things with his body and face as Roy Kent, leading to bizarre fan theories that he’s actually a CGI character. Indeed, one fan even theorized that the whole speculated Roy Kent charade was set to be blown up on Emmy night as Apple revealed Goldstein is actually an experimental AI program. But obviously that didn’t happen as the real Goldstein stepped onto the stage to accept his real Emmy in front of his real castmates while dropping a couple of real F-bombs.
Thankfully Goldstein didn’t go full Roy Kent in front of TV audiences, otherwise the telecast would have had to bleep out every other word, making his speech incomprehensible. Overall it was a great night for Goldstein and the rest of the Ted Lasso team as the show dominated the comedy categories. It will be interesting to see if season 2 of Ted Lasso does as well at next year’s Emmys, given the backlash the show has suffered in its sophomore run. Ted Lasso season 2 discourse unfortunately has been dominated by talk of slow plotting and episodes that went off the rails. But the season still has two more episodes left to pull itself together and deliver the satisfying emotional conclusion fans are hoping for.
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