The video stayed on his phone for the past five months Hunt waited for the episode to air on Aug. He took out his phone, gleefully oblivious to the glare from the monitor: "I just knew it had to be recorded for posterity," Hunt said. His first thought was to run to "video village," which was located just off field, to watch a replay. Yeah, I mean, yeah, zero."Įverything on set stopped after Dunster scored that goal. The odds of Dunster scoring from that distance? So it was important for us to try and make it as easy on the eyes, credible." Romhanyi put the odds of a professional making that shot at 1-in-100. "So, you can no longer participate as a dramatic piece. "If you get the sport wrong, it's almost like the suspension of disbelief for the viewer gets ruptured," Romhanyi said. He has seen other shows where the sports action wasn't believable, and even though "Ted Lasso" is a show about a soccer team more so than the actual soccer, Romhanyi wanted to get it right. One of Romhanyi's goals for the show was to make the soccer portions as realistic as possible. It was so f-ing cool." The long-range set piece was Dunster's attempt to match Ronaldo's seemingly impossible goal against Arsenal in the 2009 Champions League semifinal. Like, everyone was losing their f-ing s. Added Hunt: "Suddenly, they didn't have to act at all. "There was a lot of, "Wait, did Phil do that? No, surely Phil didn't do that," Dunster remembered. The reaction from the other actors wasn't manufactured. He's also a damn fine footballer, and it was one of the coolest moments of the season." "Not a lot of guys can do that, especially someone who does not have to do that because he's just an actor. "I mean, sure the goalie is not exactly doing his best there, but, I mean, it's just f-ing impressive," said Hunt, who also plays Coach Beard, an assistant coach to Ted Lasso, played by Jason Sudeikis (another creator/writer). "There was nobody on the field more surprised than me," Dunster said.Ĭreator/writer Brendan Hunt was standing next to the show's soccer director, Pedro Romhanyi, and "just couldn't f-ing believe it." What happened next, much like Ronaldo's kick in 2009, defied, well, everything. ![]() ![]() On the first take, Dunster placed the ball, dragged his feet back on the turf as he lined up, took a deep breath while standing wide-legged, just like Ronaldo, and started his approach. ![]() "I think my eyes were probably closed the whole way," Dunster told ESPN from the kitchen of his West London home. Super League rage, Ronaldo mania and the fight for the soul of Manchester United.In this scene, critical to Episode 6 of Season 2, the actors who played Dunster's AFC Richmond teammates were instructed to react as if the shot had gone in to give AFC Richmond a 1-0 lead over Tottenham Hotspur in an FA Cup quarterfinal. In the back of his mind, though, Dunster knew that as long as he made a believable kick, the shot could be guided into the net by computer-generated imagery (CGI) during post-production, along with the addition of the stadium and fans that completed the scene. Though he's an avid soccer fan, an ardent supporter of AFC Wimbledon of England's League One and tries to play 5-a-side twice a week, at the end of the day, Dunster is still an actor. While Dunster's character, Tartt, had the skill - he's depicted as an arrogant yet very good Premier League player in the show - and the bravado to make viewers believe he could pull off the shot, Dunster dug deep to rely on his soccer skill developed as a child. ![]() ESPN+ viewers' guide: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, FA Cup, more Here was the 29-year-old Dunster, last spring, on a pitch at Hayes and Yeading United F.C., just down the street from the West London Film Studios where "Ted Lasso" - which won four Emmys on Sunday night, including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, and seven overall - was filmed, trying to replicate not just one of the hardest shots in all of soccer, but trying to emulate one of the best scorers the game has ever seen. He just didn't know exactly how much Ronaldo he was channeling.ĭunster wanted to recreate Ronaldo's famous free-kick goal from the 2009 Champions League semifinal against Arsenal that defied odds, physics and Arsenal keeper Manuel Almunia. When Phil Dunster lined up his free kick from 45 yards as the fictional AFC Richmond striker Jamie Tartt in Apple TV+'s hit show "Ted Lasso," he was summoning his inner Cristiano Ronaldo. The move impressed the show's cast, including Sudeikis, right. Dunster, left, pulled off an impressive move in homage of a famous Ronaldo free kick.
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