‘Ted Lasso’ cast reunites in New York as Screen Actors Guild Awards voting gets underway

The cast of “Ted Lasso” was back together in New York over the weekend to participate in a panel discussion about Season 3 and the success of the award-winning ensemble.

“For me, growing up loving shows like ‘Cheers’ for example – it always felt like a neat barometer that if you had a store that was the ‘Cheers’ store and that store sold a T-shirt with each character singularly on those shirts, each shirt would sell,” co-creator and star Jason Sudeikis said during the event. “I wanted to be part of something that aspired to do that.”

: Hannah Waddingham discussing Ted Lasso and the symbiosis she has with its cast at a Q&A for SAG members in NYC on Sunday #TedLasso

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Since its debut in 2020 on Apple TV+, “Ted Lasso” has become one of the most acclaimed and beloved comedy shows of all time. Through three seasons, “Ted Lasso” has received 61 Emmy Award nominations with multiple wins, including Best Comedy Series in 2021 and 2022. The show earned 21 Emmy Award nominations this year, the most it ever received – and those results will be announced in early January. (The 2023 Emmys was delayed to 2024 due to the writers’ and actors’ strikes.) In addition, with an Emmy Award nomination for Phil Dunster this year in Best Comedy Supporting Actor, “Ted Lasso” joined “All in the Family,” “Cheers,” “The Golden Girls,” “Seinfeld,” “Sex and the City,” “Will & Grace,” and “Schitt’s Creek” as the only shows to ever receive Emmy nominations for every original series regular.

But the “Ted Lasso” acclaim goes well beyond the Emmys. The show’s first two seasons earned seven total Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, with consecutive wins for Sudeikis as Best Comedy Actor and a victory for Best Comedy Ensemble for Season 2. With Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations voting currently underway, “Ted Lasso” is widely expected to earn multiple nominations again, including Best Ensemble.

Speaking over the weekend, Brett Goldstein, an Emmy winner and past individual SAG Awards nominee, said in casting the show, a lot of it was just “obvious” because of the talent of the actors during their auditions. “I always mention Jeremy Swift [who plays Leslie Higgins] because he got the part before he auditioned. He introduced himself on the tape and it was like, ‘That’s it,’” Goldstein said.

The third season of “Ted Lasso” was bittersweet for fans and the show’s actors because it stood as “the end of this story that we wanted to tell, that we were hoping to tell, that we loved to tell,” Sudeikis had said previously. Speaking this week, star Hannah Waddingham – an Emmy winner and past individual SAG Awards nominee – said the challenge of the third season was staying within the “moment and allowing yourself to feel that but stepping through the moments that need to be joyous.”

Regardless of what the future holds for the series, however, the cast will certainly have plenty of other opportunities to reunite this winter. In addition to the Emmy Awards and the presumptive SAG Awards nominations, “Ted Lasso” Season 3 is also nominated for multiple honors at the Golden Globe Awards and Critics Choice Awards.

All episodes of “Ted Lasso” are streaming on Apple TV+.

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