‘Ted Lasso’ Actor Billy Harris on What It Took to Understand Gay Soccer Player Colin: ‘He Wasn’t Living His True Self’
James Lance), who himself is gay, catches Colin kissing another man outside of Sam’s (Toheeb Jimoh) restaurant, and he confronts Colin about it.
Isaac (Kola Bokinni) is also getting a sense that his teammate may be hiding his sexuality.“From Series 1 to Series 3, now you’re, seeing the real side of him,” Harris told TheWrap at a “Ted Lasso” FYC event in Hollywood on Monday. “I think there’s something that he’s using and I think it could be comedy — sometimes he’s been the butt of the jokes and stuff like that.
I think that because he wasn’t living his true self — and still in the locker room, he isn’t — when I saw how this storyline was going, it kind of all made sense to me, and I’m like, ‘Oh, this poor boy.’ As he said, he’s living two lives.”It turns out that Grindr line from Season 2 was not as throwaway as it first seemed.
He referred to the gay dating app Grindr, comparing it to Keeley’s app Bantr. Harris credits Colin’s time in therapy with allowing him to delve deeper into his sexuality.“I found out in Season 2,” Harris said. “I read the script and I saw that he was going to therapy.
