Theo Park: You know what’s quite interesting about this one is we didn’t do any chemistry reads at all. Steven Prusakowski: Together in a room, to play off each other and see their chemistry. It’s like a mosaic, you’re putting it all together, but it has to look right. So they’re all going to be good at comedy, but have a good range. I think apart from Jason and Brendan, who were already on board, we knew that we’d have to cast eight other regulars.Then you’ve got to make sure that within those you’ve got a lot of variety, diversity, but they also have to feel like they’re in the same show. So at the beginning, when we were casting season one, we were casting unknown, eight regulars. Theo Park: Well, you have to look at it as a whole. Steven Prusakowski: There are millions of actors. You read the script, you come up with some ideas, then you have to talk to the creatives to find out where those characters are going and how they’re fleshed out, so you can really specify which actors might be right for them. But yeah, it always starts with a script. Maybe they just figured it out at the end of season one. However, I didn’t know Nate what was going to happen to Nate in season two. So, Nate, you know, becomes coach by the end of season one. Then I would have conversations with Jason about what exactly they were looking for and also the character arcs. That was all I read, just the first episode of season one, the script. At the beginning, back back back, thinking back to season one, they sent me the pilot. Theo Park: Yeah, I work very closely with Jason – it really is Jason’s show. Steven Prusakowski: How does it all go from there? What direction are you given? Do you work with Bill Lawrence and Jason day to day? That’s how I got the gig, because he listened to Allison, which he should have done. And Jason Sudeikis reached out to her and said, ‘I’m doing this show in London, who would you suggest to cast my show?,’ and she suggested me. I’m friendly with this fabulous casting director in the US called Alison Jones. Steven Prusakowski: Can you give me a little bit of insight into how you got on board with Ted Lasso? Awards Radar spoke with Park about here work across three seasons of the beloved show. She has cast many of your favorite characters on the Emmy-winning Apple TV+ series, Ted Lasso. This is where casting director Theo Park comes in. The same goes for casting a show, there’s the right person for the part and finding that person is not easy task. In the game of football (soccer for you ‘mericans) when kicking a penalty it is vital to select the right player.
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