SERIES 2 | EPISODE 8 - MAX OSINSKI

Last year Max Osinski had barely touched a soccer ball in his life. Now, thanks to his turn in Ted Lasso as spiritual diva and football legend Zava, he’s a fully playable character on FIFA.

Born in an Austrian refugee camp, raised in Chicago and now living in London Max’s approach to auditions, preparing for a role being on set and working with legends such as Tom Hanks has seen him in Marvel’s Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Walking Dead: World Beyond as well as the movies “In Time” and “Love and Other Drugs”.

This Summer, he came into our Shoreditch Studio, and pulled ten cards from The Creative Blood Experience deck and in the process, revealed the art of navigating the uncertainty of the acting profession whilst maintaining not just resilience, but a sense of wonder and awe along the way.

Here’s Max on insta and his partner in art + life, wife Dichen Lachman.

This profile in Vanity Fair gives more insight into the Ted Lasso experience.

Improve your own accent game in the The International Dialects of English Archive

And join Max (sort of) on the sofa and try Idris Elba’s Hijack

This episode was created in partnership with the brilliant humans here Creative Blood and Scenery Studios.