Welcome back to Great Day Washington,
the third season of the much loved
series Ted Lasso has been taken us
once again on an emotional roller
coaster with plenty of laughs mixed in.
One of the big storylines the season is of
AFC Richmond player Colin Hughes revealing
he is gay to journalist Trent Crim.
I spoke with both actors Billy
Harris and James Lance about their
characters journeys this season
and the club brought in Dr. Sharon.
And she helped me realize that I have
an ache,
an ache for both my lives to be my only life.
Billy, why was this storyline of for Colin
coming out as gay and knowing everybody?
Why was this so important to
be a part of this show? I think
that, you know, Ted Lasso from
the Getgo has been, you know,
talking about really important subjects,
you know, to name a few, toxic, you know,
toxic masculinity is one of them.
And yeah, I think that for me,
I think that to see an athlete that's
living 2 lives and is focused on his
career but can't live his personal
life and and and for that to be fine
and the struggles that come with that,
I think that that was something that yeah,
I I I was 100%. Up for a, you know,
tackling with Colin and yeah,
the writers were as well,
which was, which was amazing.
Well, what this show does so
well is it is a storyline,
but it's one of many, right?
And it just is seamlessly
weaving throughout the season.
James, I'm loving the season with Trent.
We're learning so much more about him.
When you kind of saw how Trent's
character was evolving the season,
it had to be exciting for you.
Yeah, super exciting.
For me It's it's really,
it's really fun to, you know,
take off a few layers and what
you first see with Trenton
season one turns out to be.
There's more to the man than that.
And also, I just love in this
Amsterdam episode being able
to kind of be a safe space.
For Colin to be his authentic self,
that was that was really fun to play
because you wouldn't necessarily
think the Trent Kram would be
the guy that was going to be
able to make that space for him.
So that was, that was, that was lovely.
Yeah. No, it was that was a little
shocking because we know a few
episodes before Trent had seen
Colin kissing his boyfriend and
then that's what I'm loving about.
The heart of this show is
the people we least expect.
But I have to say James seen Trent.
I mean your facial expressions.
Are on point this season.
Oh wow. Thank you. Well,
it was, to be honest with you,
I just had to listen to to Billy.
You know, he's just,
he was phenomenal in that scene.
It was a great scene.
Billy, what have you gotten
feedback from from this?
What has it been like? Yeah.
So I had, I had a huge section of,
you know, Colin fans that you know
kind of maybe guessed a few things
in season 2 and then coming into
season three episode 3 where you see
him with his with his boyfriend.
It was just like one of relief and one
of excitement really for for, for that,
for that section of fans that they were like,
oh OK, Colin is gay and they were
really excited to to see that carry on.
And then for another for another side of it,
just even if they didn't expect it,
you know, it was,
it was still that so many people have
tweeted me saying how important this
story is and how much they've enjoyed it.
Yeah, and it's all presented so well,
presented with so much heart.
Where are we going to see your relationship
with the Colin Trent relationship?
Where are we going to see this
go the rest of the season?
Can you give us any heads up?
Yeah, I think that what's great now
is that Colin has a has a
friend in a FC Richmond.
So you know I don't think he's he's
actually had that which is quite,
which is quite sad in a way that
he now has someone that he can you
know rely on and talk to if he ever
gets you know a bit down or a bit
stressed or can you know confused.
So yeah, I think that going forward,
yeah, we might see that.
That's always got to say.
Well, gentlemen, thank you so very much.
James, it's been fun to see Trent
and his dorkiness coming out.
We can't wait to see more of
the evolution of you guys.
But Congrats again on just
such an incredible ride.
Thank you very much.
So many great storylines, a season Ted
Lasso was streaming now on Apple TV plus.