‘Ted Lasso’: How Its Emmy-Nominated VFX Team Fills Those Stadiums

TheWrap magazine: “We had 258 shots of football to turn over and a lot of other visual effects shots as well,” supervisor James MacLachlan says

Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt and Brett Goldstein in "Ted Lasso" (AppleTV+)
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This story about the visual effects of the “Mom City” episode of “Ted Lasso” first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Comedy/Variety/Reality/Nonfiction issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.

If you survey the Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode category among this year’s Emmy nominations, it pretty much makes sense: “Wednesday,” “Shadow and Bone,” “The Nevers,” “The Umbrella Academy,” “Five Days at Memorial” (they had to recreate a hurricane) and… “Ted Lasso?”

“Yeah, it’s kind of an anomaly,” on-set visual effects supervisor James MacLachlan said before explaining how the scale of a feel-good comedy landed it a nomination alongside sci-fi/adventure romps. “We were very fortunate at the beginning.

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