If the name Maximilian Osinski sounds familiar to you, it’s possible you’ve been watching him play hacker Boris Peskov on the Paramount+ subscription-exclusive series NCIS: Tony & Ziva. However, if you’re a Ted Lasso fan, you know him as the actor who played Zava, who briefly played for AFC Richmond in Season 3. While Zava is a skilled footballers, Osinski told CinemaBlend that in real life, he messed up a play and accidentally injured one of his costars on the Apple TV+ show.
The actor recalled this moment towards the end of my recent interview with him about NCIS: Tony & Ziva, which included him talking about how that robot dog sequence from Episode 8 was filmed. When I brought up Ted Lasso and if he had fun stories from his time on the Emmy-winning series, he started off by saying:
