Why Brett Goldstein Is Comparing ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4 Renewal to a Dead Cat

The surprise Ted Lasso season four renewal has Brett Goldstein‘s head spinning a bit.

During a recent interview on NPR‘s Wild Card podcast, the actor-writer-producer, who plays Roy Kent, shared that he’s “in the writers’ room at the moment” for the Apple TV+ series’ revival, which he also compared to a cat coming back from the dead.

“I have a friend that I went to university with, and I think about this a lot,” Goldstein explained. “He had a cat that died. He loved his cat, and the cat was run over, and they buried the cat, buried it. And he was a child. They buried the cat in the garden, and he lay in bed so sad, so upset and crying, and he prayed and he prayed and he wished. ‘I wish the cat would come back.’ And then the cat did come back, and it turned out the cat they buried wasn’t their cat. And I think about that all the time.”

The Shrinking star and co-creator, “And so, I’m like, no wonder this guy is fucked in the head, because he thinks death isn’t real, so of course he’s insane. He’s such a weird guy, ’cause he thinks he can bring things back from the dead.”

And basically, Goldstein feels “like that kid” at the moment, as Ted Lasso co-creators Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly initially planned for the show to run only three seasons. But after more than a year of speculation following the season three finale in May 2023, Apple TV+ ordered a fourth season last month.

“Like ‘We buried it,’” Goldstein said with a laugh. “‘We all cried, we had a funeral. Are you saying we can bring anything back?’ It’s too much power.”

Sudeikis, Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple and Jeremy Swift are all set to reprise their roles for the fourth installment. Sudeikis previously teased of the coming season in a statement, “As we all continue to live in a world where so many factors have conditioned us to look before we leap, in season four, the folks at AFC Richmond learn to LEAP BEFORE THEY LOOK, discovering that wherever they land, it’s exactly where they’re meant to be.”