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\nBrett Goldstein won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a comedy in 2021 and 2022 for Ted Lasso<\/p>\n
Actor Brett Goldstein has said he “was depressed” prior to the success of Ted Lasso and that a gratitude journal “changed him”.<\/p>\n
The British actor and comedian, 46, has reprised his role as Roy Kent, the former player-turned-assistant coach, in the fourth series of the hit Apple TV series about a Midwestern American football coach, Ted Lasso, played by Jason Sudeikis, who is hired to manage the fictional football club AFC Richmond despite having no experience in the sport.<\/p>\n
The show was an instant success when it first hit screens in 2020 and earned the most Emmy nominations ever received by a first-season comedy \u2013 with Goldstein winning the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a comedy in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n
Prior to the success of the show, Goldstein said he struggled with his mental health and saw a therapist who encouraged him to write in a gratitude journal, where he had to list at least 10 things he was grateful for.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Men’s Health UK, he said: “I was depressed.<\/p>\n
“Every day she (the therapist) made me write a list of 10 things that happened that day that I was grateful for.<\/p>\n
“In the beginning, when you\u2019re so, so depressed, it\u2019s like, ‘Nothing\u2019. But you have to put 10 in. \u2018The sun was up.\u2019 That\u2019s one. You start so small. But by day 30 of doing that, you\u2019ve started training your brain to look for the positive, and I could write a list of 100 things. I\u2019m the luckiest guy in the world! Everything\u2019s amazing!\u2019”<\/p>\n
Weeks into journaling Goldstein said he felt a noticeable shift in the way he perceived the world and that despite still having “darker days”, being able to appreciate the smaller moments in life continues to help.<\/p>\n
He said: “It really had changed me, built new synapses, whatever it is. You can look for the good. It\u2019s a skill \u2013 or, something you have to work at.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t always achieve it. I still have darker days. But gratitude helps.”<\/p>\n
\nBrett Goldstein won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a comedy in 2021 and 2022 for Ted Lasso<\/p>\n
Goldstein said although he was not raised in a household where people said you should not show your emotions, he still felt the pressures of masculinity and holding things in.<\/p>\n
He said: “I definitely grew up with the feelings of, \u2018Men aren\u2019t supposed to show emotions.\u2019 But then I got older, and my experience with women was whenever I was accidentally vulnerable it went very well.<\/p>\n
“I was like, \u2018Oh, I guess I\u2019ve been learning the wrong lessons.\u2019”<\/p>\n
“My trainer in New York, he was a professional bodybuilder and there are pictures of him on the wall in amazing shape. He said, \u2018Men love it. Women hate it.\u2019<\/p>\n
“There are all these things where I think most people don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing, they have been behaving how they think they\u2019re meant to behave.”<\/p>\n
Goldstein is also known for starring in the rom-com Office Romance alongside pop star Jennifer Lopez and 2024\u2019s All Of You and has appeared in the series Shrinking.<\/p>\n