‘The Flash’: Stephen Amell On Returning As The Green Arrow To Send Off The Arrowverse – Q&A
27.04.2023 - 01:45
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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details for this week’s episode of The CW’s The Flash.
Barry enlisted the help of an old friend to save the day on Wednesday’s episode of The Flash.
The episode starts out on a positive note when Team Flash throws a surprise birthday party for Barry, but things go terribly awry when Ramsey Rosso crashes the festivities. After Ramsey renders the rest of Team Flash incapacitated, Barry thinks he’s alone in the fight.
But, instead, he’s visited by Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow (Stephen Amell), who has been keeping tabs on the group since becoming the Spectre. He returns to Earth once more to help Barry stop Ramsey (of course, donning the iconic Green Arrow suit).
Below, Amell chats with Deadline about returning to the Arrowverse for its swan song.
DEADLINE: How were you pitched on Oliver/Green Arrow returning for this episode of The Flash?
STEPHEN AMELL: Well, Greg Berlanti called me up, and he and I had more of a general conversation. He basically said, ‘It’s the last season of The Flash, and you’re one of the people that was responsible for the show being there in the first place. So would you like to come back?’ And I said, ‘Greg, I can’t believe I’m actually gonna say this because it sounds so cliche, but it really depends on what the story is.’ Greg said, ‘Okay, well, in that case, let’s get you on the phone with Eric Wallace.’ He’s the showrunner on The Flash, and I really liked what he had to pitch. I just thought it would be a little cliche if Oliver was back for the actual series finale, just because I wanted to make sure that the focus of that episode was not on the character returning and more on that show ending…I thought the fact that it was a quote unquote normal episode