“You know, he has to tell some uncomfortable truths. But he does this season this season because in the end, he will always do what is in the team’s best interest. This growth of Higgins from being Rebecca’s meek underling to becoming a self-sufficient character of his own, is, Swift says, a result of the “domino effect of forgiveness.” Ted forgives Rebecca for trying to tear the club down in Season 11, which inevitably leads to Rebecca forgiving Higgins, and for dragging him into this toxic scheme she had hatched.Īnother thing that really shows Higgins’ growth is that, in the past, he never would’ve brought up Ted’s recent incompetence as coach with Rebecca.
I wanted to look a little bit cooler, you know, so that's what I ended up with,” he adds. And I just tried some of them and decided I don’t want to wear any of them,” he says, says, laughinging. And I look like the late Benny Hill in all hats! So I went into a sort of little trailer and it had like, about 46 hats in. The only thing that I had an effect on was that Brendan wanted me to wear a jazz kind of hat. “It was a very personal episode for Brendan. While he didn’t have much of an input while filming, he did insist on one wardrobe omission. Swift is a musician himself, having just released a brand new album in April.
The biggest evidence of this was in the episode “Sunflowers,” where we get to see Higgins lead his own jazz band. Sharon, the therapist who helped everyone on the team, especially Ted, work through their problems and he took Will-the team’s clubhouse attendant-out to the jazz bar in Amsterdam.Īnd what do you know, Higgins is actually a very cool guy. He’s hosted a massive Christmas dinner for the players on the team who couldn’t go back to their families he brought in Dr. And he always has the team’s best interests at heart. Higgins, as a character, is extremely accommodating. Swift, you’ll be happy to know, did get the vaccination that day, and he managed to film the scene as scheduled. That's what he said: Find out before you flip out,” he said. So I went up to him, and I told him about it. I was suddenly put into a scene on that day that clashed with it. At the beginning of Season 2, being relatively older than everybody else, I was one of the first people to get a COVID vaccination. “That little phrase actually came out of something I think Jason when he was on SNL. This is a line that actually dates back to Sudeikis’ Saturday Night Live days, and is something Sudeikis actually told Swift while they were filming the second season. So he's not like Yoda, but maybe an accidental Yoda,” he says, laughing, “It just sort of passes through him. And then what he offers up seems to surprise himself as much as everybody else.
“I think he often doesn't know that he has this innate sort of mentorship, sort of ability until he's asked. He is, as Swift tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed over Zoom, an “accidental Yoda”. There is no grand declaration of this, and the character is definitely not someone who would ever claim credit for it. Higgins is, unwittingly, the glue that holds Richmond together. And he’s done so without even realizing it. With the arrival and departure of superstar newcomer Zava, “wonderkid” Nate Shelley leaving them for West Ham, a string of humiliating losses, and the coaches not really knowing what to do it all it all, it seems like the team can’t catch a break.īut if there is one person who has really managed to hold the squad, its coaching staff, its manager, and essentially the entire Richmond operation together, it is their head of football operations Leslie Higgins, who is played by Jeremy Swift. Ted Lasso’s AFC Richmond has had a rough season.
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