"Ted Lasso" star Nick Mohammed had to find "a real truth" to play Nate Shelley

Nick Mohammed, who stars in the Apple TV+ series "Ted Lasso," said he had to find "a real truth" to play Nathan "Nate" Shelley in the show, which is out with its Season 3 premiere on Wednesday.  

Shelley started off as an underdog character in Season 1, before Mohammed said things took a "slightly different turn" in Season 2, which is when he transformed his character — who is now considered something of a villain. 

"In order to sort of play it realistically I had to sort of find a real truth to why he was behaving that way," Mohammed said of his character.