
“It's a tremendous sound,” he said of that moment when the ball connects with the frame of the goal. Jacket (on bench), $498, by Todd Snyder.Īnyway, Sudeikis hit the crossbar on the 10th try. Pendant necklaces, $2,100 (tag), and $3,000 (bar), by Tiffany & Co.
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“Personal stuff, professional stuff, I mean, it's all…that Venn diagram for me is very”-here he held up two hands to form one circle-“you know?” He had the same pandemic year we all had, and in the middle of that, he had Ted Lasso turn into a massive, unexpected hit, and in the middle of that, his split from his partner and the mother of his two children, Olivia Wilde, became public in a way that from a great distance seemed not entirely dissimilar to something that happens to the character he plays on the show that everyone was suddenly watching. “And are you-are any of us-open enough, able enough, curious enough to hear them when they arrive?” This sounds oblique, I guess, but I can attest, after spending some time talking to Sudeikis, that everything is a little oblique for him right now. “It's a very interesting space to live in, where you're living in the questions and the universe is slipping you answers,” Sudeikis said. Sometimes you have to do that while knowing for a fact that the worst outcome is happening, all the time. You have to somehow believe that the worst outcome simply won't happen. Like I said, confidence is a funny thing. But he can definitely kick a soccer ball pretty good. In conversation he is digressive, occasionally melancholy, prone to long anecdotes and sometimes even actual parables-closer, in other words, to Ted Lasso, the gentle, philosophical football coach he co-created, than any of the preening jerks he used to be known for.


“It's up to me to not just play an a-hole in every movie,” he said.

He became so adept at playing those types of characters, Sudeikis said, that at some point he realized he'd have to make an effort to do something different. On Saturday Night Live, where most of us saw him for the first time, he had a specialty in playing jocular blowhards and loud, self-impressed white men, a specialty he took to Hollywood, in films like Horrible Bosses and Sleeping With Other People. Sudeikis is acutely aware of “the vessel that my soul is currently, you know, occupying”-six feet one, good hair, strong jaw. Sudeikis has been riffing on it, in one way or another, for his whole professional life-particularly the comedy of unearned confidence, which he is well suited, physically, to convey. Watch, $6,300, by Cartier.Ĭonfidence is a funny thing. Jason Sudeikis covers the August 2021 issue of GQ.
