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TheCritics Choice Awardshas crowned its winner for the best supporting actor in a comedy series.
Goldstein beat out Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education),Harvey Guillén(What We Do in the Shadows), Brandon Scott Jones (Ghosts),Ray Romano(Made for Love) andBowen Yang(Saturday Night Live).
While accepting his win from London, the 41-year-old actor praised his colleagues on the acclaimed series.
“Thank you to the Critics Choice Association. Thank you to Warner [Bros.] and Apple and [co-creators]Jason [Sudeikis]and Bill [Lawrence] and Brendan [Hunt] and Joe Kelly for changing my life,” he began.
“Acting with Juno is like doing a scene with pure light,” he said of the 32-year-old actress, before adding an expletive that was censored out. “Thank you very much, everyone.”
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Goldstein playsTed Lasso’s angry-yet-loveable coach Roy Kent, and season 2 of the series showed a major life change for the character. Roy is grasping retirement and trying to find a better place to project his soccer-loving energy. He tries sports commentating first, and eventually, ends up back on the pitch as one of the coaches of AFC Richmond.
In October, Goldsteintook home the Emmy Awardfor outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series.
Goldstein previously opened up about playing such a tough character.
“Roy is incredibly stubborn,” he toldVanity Fair. “It’s going to take five episodes to get him over the emotional hump. I think part of what we’re interested in exploring in Roy is what happens after football and what happens to a man like this. You’ve got his relationship, which has been amazing and probably the first time he’s had a relationship this good. But, you know, the rest of his life’s a f—— mess. So he’s in denial about that. He’s like, everything’s fine.”
The 27th annual Critics' Choice Awards are airing on The CW and TBS.
source: people.com
