{"id":708357,"date":"2026-07-24T06:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708357\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:21:12","slug":"jason-sudeikis-addresses-very-difficult-phone-calls-to-former-ted-lasso-actors-ahead-of-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708357\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Sudeikis addresses \u2018very difficult\u2019 phone calls to former Ted Lasso actors ahead of new season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The upcoming season of Ted Lasso is introducing brand new characters \u2014\u00a0but the series\u2019 star and co-creator Jason Sudeikis had to say goodbye <\/a>to the previous cast first.<\/p>\n

Apple TV\u2019s hit series<\/a> was supposed to end with its 2023 finale<\/a> as Sudeikis\u2019s titular character returned to the U.S. after three seasons as coach of a British men\u2019s soccer team. <\/p>\n

Instead, Sudeikis and his fellow co-creators began to brainstorm about continuing the show. Eventually, they landed on a fourth season centering on an all-female team, the cast and creators told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> in an article published Wednesday.<\/p>\n

However, the new creative direction meant that the fictional AFC Richmond team at the center of the first seasons would not return. Sudeikis, 50, was tasked with explaining that to the actors who played those teammates in \u201cvery difficult\u201d individual phone calls, he told THR.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I didn\u2019t want them to hear it on the internet,\u201d the Saturday Night Live alum<\/a> told the outlet. \u201cAnd because I love those guys and we all went through something together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JasonJason Sudeikis will return as Ted Lasso for season four of the Apple TV show (Getty)<\/p>\n

Although the old team will not be coming back to the show, lead actors including Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple and Brett Goldstein <\/a>will all be returning for the long-awaited fourth installment.<\/p>\n

Currently, there is no update to whether supporting actors Toheeb Jimoh (Sam), Cristo Fern\u00e1ndez (Dani)<\/a>, Kola Bokinni (Isaac) and Billy Harris (Colin) will return, although Jimoh joked that he expected his character to have a funeral<\/a> in the new episodes. Plus, potential guest appearances still remain on the table.<\/p>\n

The Independent has reached out to Apple TV for further comment. <\/p>\n

\"JasonJason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham star as a soccer coach and team owner in \u2018Ted Lasso\u2019 (Apple TV+)<\/p>\n

Phil Dunster, who played Jamie Tartt, will also be absent from season four due to scheduling conflicts with his role in Steve Carell\u2019s comedy Rooster, it was announced earlier this year. The actor told podcaster Zach Sang that leaving the show felt like \u201cthe end of school when you graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another shake-up, the series recast the child actor who plays Henry, Sudeikis\u2019s character\u2019s son.<\/a> Grant Feely will take over the role in the new episodes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

An official logline for season four, out August 5, reads: \u201cTed returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women\u2019s football team. Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}