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My worst moment: ‘Ted Lasso’ star Jeremy Swift missed his cue for a nude entrance

British actor Jeremy Swift arrives for the Ted Lasso Day event at the Think Apple TV+ FYC Space at Goya Studios in Hollywood, California, on May 1, 2023.

On “Ted Lasso,” Jeremy Swift plays the team’s delightfully offbeat director of operations, Leslie Higgins. A lover of jazz, he is a man who might be more beaten down if he didn’t have the quiet self-confidence of a person who has his personal life figured out.

“I know some of the other actors had a trajectory planned out at the beginning,” said Swift, “but I didn’t. I didn’t really know where he was going. I’m not sure the writers did, either. The first season was very much about divorce for two of the central characters,

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