Sweet Tartt: How ‘Ted Lasso’ Star Phil Dunster Became the Final Season’s MVP
thewrap.comThis story about Phil Dunster and “Ted Lasso” first appeared in the Comedy Series issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.Ask “Ted Lasso” fans to name their favorite storyline of the surprisingly super-sized Season 3 and you’ll likely get a unanimous answer: the burgeoning bromance between Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) and Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster).
The relationship would have been unimaginable in Season 1, when the two alpha males openly despised each other. But the bad blood was wiped clean by Jamie’s transformation from AFC Richmond bad boy to team sweetheart.“I made a petition that I signed 25,000 times myself and gave it to the writers every day so that they would start writing Roy and Jamie scenes, because it was sort of my raison d’etre for a while,” Dunster said, smiling. “Brett is a huge part of why people enjoy that story because you can see him fighting his better nature all the time, and that’s a really fun thing.
I think that Jamie is the opposite of that. He’s desperately trying to find his better nature, and they’re kind of two sides of the same coin.Jamie always had a certain rascally charm, even when he was being, as the show’s denizens would say, a right tosser.
For Dunster, it was important not to dull the character’s edges. “It was always important to me and every body else that Jamie didn’t just become nice,” he said. “If he was the Teflon-coated version of himself, I think that becomes vapid and it’s not fun for the audience.
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