Brett Goldstein is greatest identified for Ted Lasso, however he’s now starring in and creating a really completely different form of comedy collection at Prime Video. Goldstein performs Roy Kent within the hit Apple TV collection and is reprising the position in Ted Lasso season 4. He’s additionally one of many co-creators, writers, and stars of Shrinking, one other in style Apple TV comedy, the place he performs the character of Louis.
Now, Goldstein is the star, co-showrunner, author, and govt producer of Escorted at Prime Video. The streamer has given a full collection order for the eight-episode, half-hour comedy collection.
Escorted sees Goldstein taking part in a divorced father residing in Manhattan who by chance turns into a male escort. The story explores the challenges of co-parenting, getting second possibilities, and questions on whether or not real intimacy may be bought.
Brian Gallivan, who’s one among Shrinking‘s govt producers alongside Goldstein, is the opposite showrunner. They’re joined by The Bear producers Cooper Wehde and Josh Senior, together with Dangerous Ideas‘ Molly Mandel. Warner Bros. Tv is the first studio behind Escorted whereas Amazon MGM Studios co-produces the challenge.
The collaboration with Prime Video is critical, given Goldstein’s a number of high-profile collaborations with Apple TV. Whereas Ted Lasso season 4 is in manufacturing, Shrinking season 3 premieres on January 28, persevering with one other season of the critically acclaimed present starring Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, and Jessica Williams, together with Jeff Daniels and Michael J. Fox becoming a member of the forged within the new season.
From the content material to the general tone, Escorted guarantees to be fairly completely different from Ted Lasso and Shrinking, though the revealed plot particulars tease that it’ll include an excessive amount of coronary heart and hope. On this sense, it might be extra much like Ted Lasso and Shrinking than initially anticipated.
Brett Goldstein’s roles proceed to increase, including to a number of different tasks of his which are additionally within the works. He and Jennifer Lopez star in Netflix’s upcoming romantic-comedy film Workplace Romance, with a script he and Ted Lasso co-creator Joe Kelly wrote. Workplace Romance‘s forged additionally contains Bradley Whitford, Betty Gilpin, Edward James Olmos, Amy Sedaris, Tony Hale, and Jodie Whittaker.
Moreover, Goldstein has On the Sea, a drama movie he stars in alongside Amy Adams, Murray Bartlett, Chloe East, Dan Levy, Jenny Slate, and Rainn Wilson that’s in post-production. Each in entrance of and behind the digicam, Brett Goldstein continues to be a rising star in motion pictures and tv, with Escorted at Prime Video now poised to be one other necessary challenge in his profession.