Despite their breakup, Olivia and Jason have remained cordial. Earlier this month, he opened up about how the Booksmart director encouraged him to turn Ted Lasso into a larger project after he previously played the character for an NBC Sports special.
“It was Olivia who was like, ‘You should do it as a TV show or movie,'” he told Kathryn Hahn on Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series, adding that he worked with Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly to make it a reality. “2015, we sat down to write the pilot, and it wasn’t until about 2018 that we came back.”
In March, Olivia celebrated her ex’s win at the 2021 Critics Choice Awards for his role in Ted Lasso.
“Congrats to Jason and the entire Ted Lasso family on your @CriticsChoice wins!” she wrote on social media at the time. “So happy for you guys. I hope this means we all keep wearing hoodies when the ceremonies are in person next year.”