Actor Phil Dunster Shares His Favorite ‘Ted Lasso’ Jamie Tartt Moment

The bicycle scene in Amsterdam, filmed at the culmination of Jamie Tartt's storyline opposite Brett Goldstein's Roy Kent, is the favorite Ted Lasso moment of actor Phil Dunster, who told Rich the week of shooting it doubled as a kind of love letter to the run.

"I think it's probably the bicycle scene with Brett," Dunster said. "I just loved that so much because it was also it would have been the most amazing week in Amsterdam and it was at the culmination of Jamie's storyline and Brett and I had this sort of quasi love affair during the filming of the show and it was just a really special time."

Dunster reserved his deepest reverence for the speeches, and specifically the one Jason Sudeikis delivered after the believe sign rips off the wall. "There's a lot of reverence when he was doing those speeches and you want to make sure you get it right," Dunster said. "There's a wonderful kind of allegory of us wanting just to serve the piece so that this moment can have space to breathe and that Jason has the platform to be able to do this and Ted can say these things because we know what it means to us."

By the third season, Dunster said, the cast felt the cultural weight pressing in. "By season 3 when we were aware of the sort of impact or the ripples it had in the world a little bit, you just sort of know that the stakes are somewhat higher, that it means something to people and you want to make sure you get it right."

Rich, working the news of a fourth season, asked whether Dunster's commitments to Rooster were keeping him out. Dunster waved off the implication and offered an unexpected family thread: his wife is directing episodes of the new run. "I'm riding shotgun on her experience of it because I just want to stay near to it," he said. "It changed my life the show and now she's got her own experience with it."

Pressed on whether that meant a Jamie Tartt cameo was off the table, Dunster pulled back fast. "I don't know. I don't want to get into it. I shouldn't."

On the comparison between Sudeikis and Steve Carell, with whom Dunster works on Rooster, the actor landed on a shared instinct that has nothing to do with punchlines. "They both have this really lovely quality where they are two people who have made a career out of being really funny, and that people look to them to be funny, but when you're on set with them, they are the first people to laugh at other people's jokes," Dunster said. "They pass instead of scoring."