Brett Goldstein sent his parents to see 'Thor: Love and Thunder' but his mom nearly missed his surprise cameo because she was texting him about Russell Crowe

• Brett Goldstein's mom almost missed his cameo in "Thor: Love and Thunder" because she was texting.
• "She's texting me, 'This is funny!' I'm like, 'Stop texting and watch the fucking film!'" Goldstein told Entertainment Weekly.

"Ted Lasso" star Brett Goldstein sent his parents to see "Thor: Love and Thunder," but his mom almost missed his surprise post-credits cameo because she was texting him about Russell Crowe.

"I sent them a text saying, 'I've just seen 'Thor'! It's really good! I think you'd enjoy it. You should go,'" Goldstein told Entertainment Weekly of convincing his parents to see the latest Marvel film.

"They went, and my mum kept texting me during the film," he continued. "I've always said to her, 'Don't fucking text during the film!' She's texting me, 'This is funny!' I'm like, 'Stop texting and watch the fucking film!'"

He said that his mom almost missed his brief appearance because she was so focused on texting him about Crowe's performance in the film, where he plays Zeus.

"It gets to the end, and like 10 seconds before I'm on, she's texting me, 'Russell Crowe's back on, he's funny!'" Goldstein told Entertainment Weekly. "And I went, 'Look up at the fucking screen!' I'm like, if she misses this, she's going to walk out and go, 'Well, I enjoyed the film. I don't know why you sent us.'"

In the cameo, Goldstein appears as Hercules, the son of Zeus. This is the first appearance of the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Goldstein told Entertainment Weekly that he was "very surprised" to be asked to join the MCU, and he said his cameo was such a secret that he couldn't tell anyone, not even his parents, that he would appear at the end of the movie.

"I didn't tell anyone," Goldstein told Entertainment Weekly. "I didn't tell my family. They put a chip in me that would explode if I fucking spoke about it. It was terrifying."