Brett Goldstein's Mission to Convert J-Lo into a Spurs Fan

Brett Goldstein is on a mission. Not to win another Emmy, not to channel Roy Kent’s rage, but to convert Jennifer Lopez into a fully signed-up member of the Tottenham Hotspur suffering society.

Promoting their new Netflix comedy Office Romance, the actor slipped comfortably into fan mode as he spoke about dragging his co-star towards the “COYS” life. Asked whether he’d actually managed to turn J-Lo into a Spurs supporter, Goldstein didn’t bother pretending she had a say in the matter.

“She has no other option,” he told talkSPORT.

That bluntness will sound familiar to anyone who has heard Goldstein talk about Tottenham before. His affection for the club is unquestionable; his realism about what that entails is even stronger. He has previously described following Spurs as “a form of self-harm,” recalling a grim spell when simply avoiding relegation felt like winning the World Cup. For him, being a Tottenham fan isn’t a hobby. It’s an endurance test with the occasional moment of delirium.

While Spurs continue to wrestle with their identity on the pitch, one of their greatest icons is thriving far from north London. Harry Kane, the club’s record goalscorer and former captain, left for Bayern Munich in 2023 and has since been rewriting scoring charts in Germany. Now he’s turning up on screen as well.

Kane filmed a cameo for Office Romance, and by the sound of it, he didn’t just stroll through a token appearance. Goldstein lit up when he talked about working with the England striker, his words mixing the awe of a fan with the respect of a colleague.

“I mean I love Harry Kane,” Goldstein said. “Not only is he one of our greatest footballers, but from everything I have seen he seems to be one of our purest hearts. He is a pure heart. There is nothing I like more than a footballer who is a pure heart. He seems like a really, really good man. And a tremendous footballer. Very happy to have him in the film.”

This wasn’t a vanity cameo dropped in to chase headlines. On set, Kane’s scene quickly became one of the standout moments.

Jennifer Lopez herself admitted the production team had been nervous about how a footballer would handle a comedy script. Those fears didn’t last long. At the first table read, with the full cast gathered and Kane’s scene up for its initial airing, the room erupted.

“That was a really great scene,” J-Lo said. “I remember when we did the first table read with the whole cast before we started shooting, and I guess you guys were saying that you were worried about that scene and how it was going to play. And I read it, and everybody was hysterically laughing. I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is so fun,’ and so we had such a good time shooting it.”

While Kane cracks jokes on set and buries chances in the Bundesliga, Tottenham are still trying to patch the hole he left behind. The numbers are brutal. In the 2025-26 season alone, Kane scored 61 goals in all competitions for Bayern Munich. Over the same campaign, the entire Spurs squad managed just 48 goals in the Premier League.

That is not a gap. It’s a chasm.

For Roberto De Zerbi, now tasked with rebuilding a side that has stumbled through two poor seasons, the challenge is clear and unforgiving: find a way to construct a new Tottenham that doesn’t live in Kane’s shadow, or risk watching the club’s story drift from drama into farce while its former talisman conquers Europe and steals scenes in Hollywood.