But his take on the character, informed by his deep soccer fandom, came to dictate much of how the character was written, he explained, right down to jokes that hinge on Dunster’s twanging accent.
(One of the most memorable lines in Season 3 revolves around his singular pronunciation of a colloquial term for excrement.)
“I don’t want to put it down solely to my performance as Oliver in a Year 3 production at school, but that laid the foundation of me being a show-off,” he said.
“I flocked, man — I had someone who was looking after me, and I still managed to screw everything up,” he said.
On the bus ride home, he was dismayed: “I remember thinking, ‘What am I doing?
Persons:
Sudeikis, Dunster, ” Dunster, Oliver, ”, —, dryly, “, you’ve, ’ ”
Organizations:
Bristol Old Vic Theater School
Locations:
Reading, England, Brixton