‘The Flash’: Teddy Sears On Jay Garrick’s Struggle To Win Over Team Flash

The Crimson Comet made his “The Flash” debut in the Season 2 premiere last week, warning the team about impending danger.

When the show resumes Tuesday night on The CW, though, don’t expect everyone to take Jay Garrick (played wonderfully by actor Teddy Sears) at his word.

“Jay spends the bulk of the episode winning over each member of S.T.A.R. Labs — including Joe and Iris — one by one, and I think he has to do that in order to convince Barry that he’s on the level and he is who he says he is and his intentions are good,” “Flash” newcomer Teddy told Access Hollywood.

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Barry and the team are understandably apprehensive when meeting the newcomer (following their experiences with Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne), and they’ll each have their guard up to different degrees.

“They put me through the ringer,” Teddy said of Jay’s less-than-welcome reception. “I’m on the cosmic treadmill, you know? I’m hooked up and there’s actually sort of some funny lines about that.”

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Jay’s warning at the end of the show’s season premiere was a dire one, so he will need to work fast to get Team Flash on board and up to speed about what exactly is going on.

“Where Episode 1 ends, Episode 2 begins literally with the same moment, so you’ll see it’s sort of a nice overlap as Jay Garrick walks in and says the exact same thing, and then he begins to explain what he means by saying, ‘Your world is in danger,'” Teddy said.

“When they created the singularity above Central City… essentially they created a bridge between the two worlds,” the actor explained of the problem facing Team Flash in Central City.

Sand Demon is this week’s metahuman villain, but he’s from Jay’s world, someone who slipped through the bridge. Jay, a metahuman speedster on his own earth, has some experience with Sand Demon, and has invaluable advice. His immediate goal is to help the team tackle the latest challenge, and get ready to take on the Season 2 big, bad villain – Zoom.

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“He’s here to mentor Barry and to team up with these guys to help keep everybody safe, and ultimately to help bring down Zoom, so it’s certainly a challenge,” Teddy said.

Zoom is a powerful villain, but on Earth 1, Jay has an additional challenge that is prompting him to work with Team Flash – in their world, he is super-speedless.

“It makes him a lot more cautious,” Teddy said. “It also makes him extraordinarily vulnerable and I think he has a bit of an identity crisis. We’ll get into it more in Episode 3 — we get the back story of how he came to get his speed in the first place and his struggle since he’s arrived on Earth 1 to reconcile who he is now that he doesn’t have that speed — especially as a scientist, someone who was dedicated to helping people and saving the lives of people.”

Teddy is finding it thrilling to play Jay Garrick on The CW superhero series, a character with a rich, comic book history and even his own arch nemesis.

“It’s pretty cool. I don’t one in life, so I can’t sort of draw on any real life experience,” Teddy laughed, when Access asked how it feels to have an arch nemesis on a TV show.

“It’s humbling, it’s motivating,” he continued. “If I’m Jay Garrick and I know there’s a guy out there who is just as capable, if not more so than I am, there’s no [time to] sit back and relax and I imagine it’s like that if you’re any superhero in the JSA [Justice Society of America] — that you are constantly under threat of some moustache-twirling villain who is trying to take over the world. … But I will say this, so let me just distill it down — it’s a lot of fun.”

“The Flash” continues Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

— Jolie Lash