"ARROW" Nueva serie de la CW para TV basada en Green Arrow

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- Video BTS (06-04-13):

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- Desvelado el título y créditos del episodio 1.23 (finale):

El título de la finale de la Season 1 es “Sacrifice,” con historia de Greg Berlanti y guión de Marc Guggenheim y Andrew Kreisberg y estará dirigida por Dave Barrett.




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Nos deben 7 episodios doblados.

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Bueno, eso depende de la cadena, no de ellos. Aunque siempre lo digo... me quedo con la versión original



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- El DVD & Blu-ray de la Primera Temporada de "Arrow" Disponible en Pre-Order:

La primera temporada de Arrow en DVD/Blu-ray no llegará hasta el 9 de Septiembre, pero ya puede pre-ordenarse en Amazon:

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A pesar de que los precios ahora mismo son un poco altos, la póliza de “Pre-Order Price Guarantee” de la página significa que si el precio baja hasta el 9 de Septiembre (y lo hará con toda seguridad), se podrá conseguir el DVD al precio más bajo.

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- Arrow : Stunts: The Rematch:

- Nuevas bts del episodio 22 (09-04-13):





- Video BTS de Amell en facebook sobre el episodio final:

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Shelby,esta 1ª temporada la voy a terminar doblada al español,pero la 2ª avisa,para verla subtitulada,al estilo "Smallville",esta temporada,me ha costado seguirla,con subtitulos,y lo dejé.

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Bueno, os hice un post de la serie con todos los links para que os fuera sencillo el encontrarlos, no sé si lo viste:

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Lo normal es que al día siguiente de la emisión en EEUU (osea, el jueves, si no cambian el día) os ponga los enlaces y los rátings de los episodios en ese link

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- Stills del 1.20 "Home Invasion":






- Descripción oficial del episodio 1.21 “The Undertaking”:

1.21 “The Undertaking”: CON UNA PISTA SOBRE EL PARADERO DE WALTER, OLIVER CONFÍA EN FELICITY EN EL CAMPO — Encontrando difícil el arreglar las cosas con Tommy (Colin Donnell) y Diggle (David Ramsey), Oliver (Stephen Amell) se centrar en tachar otro nombre en la lista. Mientras que indaga en el ordenador de un contable fraudulento, Felicity (la estrella invitada Emily Bett Rickards) descubre una transacción que puede ayudar a Oliver a encontrar a Walter. Para confirmar la pista, Oliver confía en que Felicity pueda ayudar en el campo por primera vez. En un flashback, Malcolm (la estrella invitada John Barrowman) revela a Robert Queen (la estrella invitada Jamey Sheridan) y Frank Chen (la estrella invitada Chin Han) dolorosos detalles acerca del asesinato de su mujer, y cómo eso le dio forma a sus planes para los Glades. Mientras tanto, Tommy (Colin Donnell) engaña a Laurel (Katie Cassidy) con la verdad. Willa Holland y Susanna Thompson también aparecen. Michael Schultz dirige el episodio escrito por Jake Coburn & Lana Cho (#121)

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- Videos BTS de Stephen Amell (11-04-13):

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- Descripción oficial del 1.23 “Darkness On The Edge Of Town”:

1.23 “Darkness On The Edge Of Town”: ¿PUEDE OLIVER SER MÁS LISTO O DERROTAR A DARK ARCHER PARA SALVAR LA CIUDAD? — Con los sías de Undertaking lejos, Malcolm (la estrella invitada John Barrowman) se pone su capucha negra para concluir los negocios con el sismólogo Dr. Brion Markov (la estrella invitada Eric Floyd) y su equipo. Oliver (Stephen Amell) y Moira (Susanna Thompson) entretienen a un número de sorprendentes – y mayormente inoportunos – visitantes. Enfrentamientos encapuchados en casa y en Meryln Global Group reveñan oscuros secretos. Mientras tanto, Roy (la estrella invitada Colton Haynes) y Thea (Willa Holland) siguen buscando un héroe. Laurel (Katie Cassidy) toma una decisión después de la revelación de Tommy (Colin Donnell). En un flashback a la isla, Oliver, Slade (la estrella invitada Manu Bennett) y Shado (la estrella invitada Celina Jade) luchan por prevenir que Fyers (la estrella invitada Sebastian Dunn) dipare a un Ferris Air jet en el cielo. Paul Blackthorne y David Ramsey también aparecen. Roger Cross y Bryon Mann también son estrellas invitadas. John Behring dirige el episodio escrito por Drew Z. Greenberg & Wendy Mericle (#122).

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- Stills 1.21 "The Undertaking":

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- El actor J. August Richards nuevo villano en el episodio 1.20 "Home Invasion":

El actor de "Angel" J.August Richards aparecerá en Starling City en el episodio de la próxima semana 1.20 "Home Invasion", interpretando a un sicario apodado como "Mr. Blank".

Según el showrunner Andrew Kreisberg, “Es un nuevo villano muy guay para añadir a nuestra galería de granujas” — y uno que casi fue sacado del conocimniento popular de DC.

“Originalmente, íbamos a intentar hacer a 'Onomatopoeia', un villano de los cómics de a Kevin Smith [de los cómics de New Earth], pero Kevin aparentemente dijo en una entrevista que no había manera de llevar a ese personaje a la televisión y las películas — ¡y después de un tiempo estuvios de acuerdo con él!” (El truco de Ono era la habilidad de imitar sonidos).

En su lugar, con Mr. Blank, Arrow consigue un tentadoramente “asesino inocuo, alguien que tiene fuerza y poder pero que está de algún modo en segundo plano. Así es como dimos con el nombre, porque realmente no es nada o nadie.”



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- Emily Bett Rickards -- Arrow Interview (Fanhattan.com):

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- ARROW: Emily Bett Rickards Previews 'Home Invasion' (givememyremotetv.com):

- Emily Bett Rickards talks Team 'Arrow' (examiner.com):

- Interview With Arrow's Felicity Smoak - Emily Bett Rickards (greenarrowtv):

- Nuevo póster de los Sweeps de Mayo:





- Emily Bett Rickards Habla sobre la popularidad de Felicity Smoak, el descamisado Oliver y Más (greenarrowtv):

Emily Bett Rickards Habla sobre la popularidad de Felicity Smoak, el descamisado Oliver y Más
Por Craig Byrne 19 de Abril, 2013

Yesterday we had the privilege of interviewing Emily Bett Rickards, one of Arrow’s biggest surprises who plays the breakout character Felicity Smoak on the series. It seems like just yesterday “Arrow IT girl” were sending people to this site; in the time since, Felicity has learned Oliver’s secret about his alter ego and become a part of the crime fighting team… all while maintaining a job at Queen Consolidated.

We’ll be posting some video from this interview this weekend; in the meantime, we’re going to be spreading out the text of the interview over the next three days here at GreenArrowTV. As such, this is Part 1 of a three-part interview; follow @GreenArrowTV on Twitter for more updates when more will be posted.

We’ll be presenting this interview as a Q&A, with our questions posted in bold and Ms. Rickards’ answers in plain text. Enjoy… and before you ask, yes, Emily Bett Rickards is just as cool as Felicity is, if not even cooler.

GREENARROWTV: When you first got the role of Felicity, did you expect it to be a one time only thing?

EMILY BETT RICKARDS: Yeah. That’s exactly what I expected. It said “possibly recurring,” but you never know. It is what it is. You go in for one day, you hope so bad it’s going to be recurring, and when I got the second episode, I was just like “Yeah,” and I felt like, for sure, that was going to be it. And here I am!

What was your reaction when you found out you’d be a series regular for Arrow Season 2?

I was ecstatic. I was extremely thankful. Grateful. Honored. I’m not usually speechless, but I’m pretty speechless about it. I’m very excited. We have such an excellent cast. Our creative team is extraordinary. The story that they go through in the first season, looking at it from bookend to bookend, is just huge. I’m super thankful.

Were you surprised by the instant fan reaction when Felicity first showed up on the show?

I guess I was kind of in shock…. I sort of said “Oh, that’s so nice. They like her. I’m really glad that they like her.” That’s a huge compliment to me, and a huge compliment to our creative and our writing team. I was just, like, so happy about that… and then thanks to the fans and the reaction, they brought me back. That was great for me, and I got to explore Felicity more. That’s what I’m really excited about.

While everyone’s down in the lair, Oliver’s doing shirtless exercises while Felicity is trying to work. How does she ever concentrate?

Concentrate? She just stares at him. She’s like “oh, there you are, shirtless and getting a spray down.” She’s a great multi-tasker. How’s that sound? [laughs]

And how do you, as an actress, concentrate when Stephen is doing that?

I don’t know… he’s obviously extremely good looking, but we’re working, and Stephen and I are friends, and that’s just really fun. I always bug him when he’s got his shirt off. It’s like, “I’m going to have a great day today.” [laughs]

Is it possible at all that Felicity might not be all that she appears to be? Could she be a mole for Malcolm Merlyn, or anything like that?

Oh, gee. Not that I know of, actually, but that would be very interesting, eh? I don’t think so. No. But we do get to see Felicity sort of dissolve her fears a little bit, going out into the field, and that sort of thing. I think that’s something to look forward to.

There’s something coming up with Felicity going undercover [Episode 21, "The Undertaking"]. Can you talk about that?

Yes. She goes undercover, and she looks fine. [laughs] She volunteers to go undercover, which is different from Episode 15… and also different in that she doesn’t have a bomb collar on her neck, but the stakes are even higher, and the danger is even greater. She’s in there trying to keep composed, undercover, surrounded by people that are extremely dangerous.

Why does Felicity stick by Oliver at that time? The synopsis that Diggle and Tommy are mad at him at the moment?

Felicity gets involved in the sense that she wants to have everyone honest with each other and work things out, but she’s not going to judge everyone individually on what happened between them. If it involves her or not, what’s really strong about Felicity is she takes her own view and looks at things very objectively. I think that comes from working with computers, because there’s literally one way. It’s either you do this and it works, or you do this and it doesn’t. She looks at things objectively, and she goes “if this works, and this works,” there’s pros and cons to these situations. I think that’s really powerful about her.


GREENARROWTV: The entire Arrow cast seems to hang out a lot, with lots of pictures that you guys tweet. Can you talk about that?

EMILY BETT RICKARDS: Colton [Haynes] and I are really good friends. Colin and I live a building away from each other, on the same block, so Colin and I hang out a lot… I get to work with Stephen and David a lot, so we’re all really close… and I get to see Katie every so often, which is awesome, and Willa, too.

I get to hang out with Colton, I think, the most. Colton and I get along really well, and Colin, because he’s like the funniest person I know. He’s extraordinary, and brilliant, and super talented.

Speaking of Colton… when are Roy and Felicity going to have a scene together?

I don’t know, guys. Not in the first season. Maybe in the second. I can give you that much.

What can you tease about the season finale (airing May 15)?

I’m not allowed to talk about much, but I can tell you that it’s enormous. 22 could be the season finale, and it’s not, so think about taking that one step higher. I think everyone will really enjoy it. Super high stakes. Lots of danger. Lots of sacrifice.

What are the possibilities of a romance between Felicity and Oliver?

Possibilities of “Olicity”… Olicity’s a great ‘ship. I don’t know who came up with that. I would love to meet the first person who came up with it. It’s great.

I don’t know. I’ve said this since Olicity started being ‘shipped, that we get to see the relationship evolve. We get to see them become more honest with each other, and open up… Oliver doesn’t open up to very many people. You know when you meet someone who doesn’t open up to very many people, that you can feel yourself admiring them. You love someone that you’re friends with, and you love someone that you could look up to, and you could love someone you’d admire and could be honest with. I think those are all the right steps into making a relationship, but they also don’t guarantee that one’s going to happen.

What about the possibility of Felicity and someone else, like maybe Diggle?

That would be kind of fun. I don’t know! I think Felicity hasn’t earned [but] will earn a romance or some sort of interesting romance or friendship in Season 2. I’m not sure, because I don’t know much about that. But I think she has earned it, and I think it’s extremely possible.

What would you like to see for her in Season 2, in general?

Well, I’d like to see her home life. I would like to learn more about her home life and where she comes from. And, obviously I’d like to see her doing combat, but that’s for me, not for Felicity. [laughs] I don’t think she’d be too coordinated.

Yeah, I’d like to see more of her home life; maybe where she comes from, who her parents are.

Do you think she could ever put on a costume?

Well, I mean she kind of does when she puts on a dress, but if she puts on a cape? I don’t know. Would her cape be purple? I don’t know. I’m just saying.

Had you followed comic books at all before getting this role?

I hadn’t, really. I was never introduced into that world, but I’m really happy I am now, because I love it.

Have you seen the comic book version of Felicity Smoak? She’s quite different.

Yes, I have. She is quite different. I mean, she’s older, and there’s Richard Raymond, and they have that whole thing with Firestorm, so obviously that’s… we’re staying away from actual super powers on the show. So there are things that won’t happen, and things that will, and I like how our writers and our creative team have picked and chosen what they sort of want, and what direction they want tthe show to go in. But, yeah. I’m not that tall. I’m not brunette. I’m not that old. She’s smart. She wasn’t very awkward in the series. I think she was sort of “straight to it,” you know what I mean? But I love Felicity in Arrow. I love her.


GREENARROWTV: Do you have any plans for the summer hiatus; any movies or anything like that?

EMILY BETT RICKARDS: Well, I am auditioning this week, so I’ll keep you posted.

A fan on Twitter had asked: Are you planning any convention appearances?

I don’t quite know yet. I hope to, and I will let you know as soon as I know, because it would be really fun to meet you.

Is there anyone that you’d like to work with that you haven’t gotten to work with yet on the series?

I really want to work… I’d love to work with John Barrowman. [laughs] I get to be on set with him… he’s awesome. Everyone’s seen the little musical we all made together. And Susanna [Thompson]. I’d love to… I mean, I’d love to work with everyone, but I’d love to work with Susanna. I really admire her. I admire her work a lot. I admire everyone’s work, but I would really like to work with Susanna, who I haven’t gotten a chance to work with.

Why do you think that the audience has connected with Felicity so well?

I think she’s relatable. I think that she is honest. Because she can’t, she doesn’t have a filter, she doesn’t hold back what she’s thinking. She helps out a superhero, and she’s got all these cool gadgets.

What did you think when you received the script where Felicity found out what was going on with Oliver?

I liked what Felicity said in that script. She was like “you know, I’m not stupid. I’m not an idiot. You gave me the energy drink and a syringe, right?” I don’t think she was shocked to find out that Oliver was the Hood, but I think that she was surprised that she actually hadn’t labeled it earlier. Because what do you think, that Oliver Queen’s going to be the Hood? You don’t think that, because you just don’t. It’s impossible to think; that’s why Oliver hasn’t been found out yet. But I think it’s important, and I think Felicity was scared [at first]. She’s still frightened, but we get to see her dissolve her fears. But when she first found out? Unstill waters.

Do you think that Oliver is a better person or a better vigilante now that Felicity is part of his “gang?”

I think they’re learning from each other. I think that’s what happens in our relationships and our every day life. And I think whether or not he’s a better person, I think she’s opened his eyes to other aspects. These are real people, you are killing real people, whether or not they’re bad guys, and you are a real person, and you can’t get lost in the vigilante, or else you’re going to destroy your personal life.

What can you tease about this Wednesday’s episode, “Home Invasion?”

There is tension between the “Scooby Gang” as Natalie [Abrams] labeled it earlier. Diggle and Oliver are going to get into a little bit of tension, and Felicity has to play neutral.

But, the undercover episode is the week after, “The Undertaking,” correct?

Yes.

What’s this about Felicity being seen at Big Belly Burger? Is this the same episode?

That is… Episode 22.

What is the context of that?

[Purposely vague] She is undercover, again, and it’s part of her facade. It helps her move around. She’s not in a dress.

Are there any more characters Felicity might meet before season’s end?

She does get to meet a couple more characters. We do get to see that. She doesn’t really get to involve herself, too much, with other characters. I mean, our characters cross paths… I think she says hi to Laurel at some point, but there’s nothing crazy.

So no one’s going to figure out Oliver’s been hanging out with the IT girl from Queen Consolidated?

No. Nobody knows.

On that note… what happened to that job? Is Felicity still doing it?

She is still doing it, as of right now. Queen Consolidated is sort of whittling away. I mean, Walter is gone, and Moira is focused on other things, and over her head. Queen Consolidated is still working, and she is still working there. I mean, she does show up to the Foundry in her work clothes most of the time. Yeah. She’s still there, so you can still find her there, but she’s not there very often.

If and when Walter is possibly found, will Felicity feel that her job is done?

I think she’s more involved than that now. I think she’s left that condition, when she negotiated her being part of the team. She’s found another reason to stay.

Do you have anything else you’d like to say to the fans who might be reading this?

Hope to see you guys at a conference soon!


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- Emily Bett Rickards Sobre Felicity en el Campo, un romance con Oliver y más (TVFanatic.com):

Emily Bett Rickards Sobre Felicity en el Campo, un romance con Oliver y más
Por Jim Halterman 22 de Abril, 2013 8:35


Felicity Smoak won us over the minute she began appearing on Arrow, but life is about to get a lot more complicated for our computer expert.

In fact, life-threatening danger is right around the corner upon the return of this CW smash, with Miss Smoak right in the middle of it.

In this week’s episode, “Home Invasion,” Deadshot returns to stir things up for Ollie and crew, while in the May 1st episode (“The Undertaking") Felicity leaves the computer for a change and goes out in the field.

Last week, I sat down with Emily Bett Rickards to talk about what Deadshot does to our heroes, how Felicity will cope with being in the field and whether she’s on board with a possible Ollie/Felicity romance...


TV Fanatic: Deadshot is a big part of the next episode and I know Felicity becomes involved in the hunt for him but does she come face-to-face with him? Does she interact with him at all?
Emily Bett Rickards: No. She’s got a big involvement in what happens about whether Deadshot is caught or not and we get to see tension around Deadshot and within our trio within Diggle, Felicity, and Oliver and that’s what the episode revolves around Deadshot seems to get in the way of our groove.

TVF: So is Deadshot trying to get into your heads just so he can screw with the dynamic?
EBR: He’s doing it unintentionally, but it’s happening.

TVF: In the ‘Undertaken’ episode when Felicity goes into the field, how was that to play?
EBR: I love Felicity when she’s not in the Foundry. I love her in the Foundry but she even says ‘re-circulate the air and no coffee. What’s going on down here?’ She’s obviously frightened. She’s out in the field but she secretly loves it. She probably watched a lot of spy movies. I mean, she knows what’s going on.

TVF: Does she find that she’s more capable than she might realize?
EBR: I find she is capable. She does find herself becoming more comfortable out on the field as time goes on and it’s interesting the way that she’s being written and the way I’ve looked for little treasures in the script and things.

When she starts to play a character when she’s out on the field she’s more comfortable. It’s really interesting because then you see Felicity slip through and then she kind of composes herself back and it’s like ‘okay I can do this,’ I can be somebody else for 20 minutes or whatever.

TVF: I know you’ve been getting questioned a lot about Olly and Felicity. She definitely, you can tell, has moony eyes over him. Duh?
EBR: How do you not? He’s a babe for one, but he’s also opening up to her, which is not something that he normally does. She can feel that, I think. We can feel that when somebody opens up to us when there is sort of a brick wall usually. Also, he saved her life when she had a bomb collar around her neck. He’s going to save her life again in future episodes so her heart’s pounding a little bit.

TVF: If you were in the writers' room would you want something to happen or do you think it’s better to tease it out?
EBR: I don’t know. I mean, it would be awesome to see. I think the tension is also very intriguing for audience members. I think that’s always a great thing even when you reading a book or watching a show [and] you’re just waiting. Is it going to happen or you’re just heartbroken or left at the end of a movie or something like that, elated or that sort of thing. Yeah, I’m not sure what I would write. I’m not the writer.

TVF: And all this about Ollie and Felicity but what about Diggle? He’s got those big arms.
EBR: They’re actually the size of my thigh. They’re huge. Why not with Diggle right? David Ramsey!

TVF: You said Ollie saves her life again. Does he end up having it jump in and help her in “Undertaken?”
EBR: He does have to help her. She’s out on the field, but she is five foot five little blonde girl so you know she can’t really take down any big muscular guys or anything like that if this were to happen.

TVF: Felicity is always so together and focused at work. Do you think her home life would be the opposite of that?
EBR: I always wonder when I play a character if I would be friends with them or whether or not they would be friends with me and I think I would probably be friends with Felicity because she’s really smart, but she probably wouldn’t be friends with me because my apartment is a little messy.

TVF: Ever since Felicity began appearing, the fans have just gone crazy for her. Does that add any pressure to you?
EBR: No. I never dreamed in a million years that this was how it was going to be. Pressure? No, it’s just really nice. It’s a compliment to the writers and to the team and I’m really grateful, as well. I think it’s fun.

TVF: Who do you think is the bigger fashionista? Felicity or Emily?
EBR: Oh, we’re different. I own leather, I'm pretty sure she owns nothing leather. One of the first episodes working with David, I was leaving set and I said good bye to him and I was dressed in my regular clothes and he looked at me and he goes, “Oh, my gosh I had no idea that was you.” I think I was wearing a black leather bomber jacket you know, something normal in Vancouver cold weather. He just had no idea it was me.

TVF: A lot of the characters on this show have secrets. Do we know if Felicity has any secrets?
EBR: We don’t really get into when she has secrets besides the fact that she’s carrying this huge secret that she knows who the vigilante is…but she’s got her own little secrets. Everyone does, but she’s open with all of them. We don’t really get to see her devouring or holding any back quite yet.

TVF: You came on the show it had already been airing. What was the biggest surprise working with Stephen?
EBR: Working with Stephen was great. He has been continuously offering his help because I’m green to the industry. Well, since Felicity has become more popular there are new avenues that I’m searching and he’s been such a great help. Everyone on this show has been like, ‘anything you need just talk to us.’ Everyone has been really helpful. I think I’m surviving.

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- J. August Richards Habla sobre 'Arrow', 'Angel' y Joss Whedon (fearnet.com):

J. August Richards Habla sobre 'Arrow', 'Angel' y Joss Whedon
Por Nancy Greene, 22 de Abril 2013 - 3:00pm

J. August Richards, well-known for his work in movies and television, such as The Temptations and as Gunn on the popular television show Angel, took some time out of his schedule to talk exclusively with FEARnet about his upcoming role on the new hit series, Arrow.

FEARnet: With the upcoming April 24th episode of Arrow, you'll be playing a character called Mr. Blank. Can you tell us a bit about him?

J. August Richards: What I can tell you is that I've never played a role like this before in my life, and I was extremely challenged by it and very afraid of it. Andrew Kreisberg, the executive producer, thought of me for the role after he saw an episode of Emily Owens, M.D. that I did. He immediately thought of me for it; I don't know why.

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Because nothing I've ever done is like this character. So I was kind of afraid of it, but the director, Ken Fink and I figured it out, figured out how I was going to portray it. It was challenging and very, very fun.

I saw the episode and the way your character treated his wife before his memory loss vs. after, I can see why he would think of you for the role. In that episode it was two different characters, in a way.

That's funny that you say that, because I didn't see it that way at all. But now that you mention it, it's really true. We had a debate on set during Emily Owens and everyone said that my character was mad at his wife, but I didn't see it that way at all. What I played it as I just couldn't look at her face because every time I saw her face I saw our dead son. That's where I was coming from, and that's why I was able to look at her with love after I forgot about that loss. So it's really interesting that you mention that, because I always wondered what it was about that performance that would have made them think of me for this role. My personality is so different from Mr. Blank.

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But I found it, and I definitely had fun once I figured it out.

Since it was so different, how did you prepare for that role?

That's a really good question. Once you see it you will see that there's an aspect to the character's personality that I couldn't understand. In terms of how to prepare for it, it was really difficult because the character is very … I'll say he's like a sociopathic version of Nate Berkus. Do you know who Nate Berkus is?

No, I don't think so, but the name sounds familiar.

Nate Berkus is an interior decorator who works with Oprah Winfrey.

Oh, him! Yes, Nate, okay!

[laughter]

Yeah, yeah. So when I read the script I saw him as a sociopathic version of Nate Berkus, because he has no feelings about human beings but he has tremendous feelings about spaces. And I thought that that was so weird, because even though it's not easy, I understand the idea of someone that has no feelings for people. But then I asked myself, “How could someone have no emotions for human beings but then be so sensitive to the energy in a space?” And that's what made the character absolutely fascinating and difficult for me.

Interesting! I don't want to ask you too much specifically about it, so as not to spoil it for the audience.

You can call him a sociopathic Nate Berkus, because no one will know what that means! They might have an idea, but they'll want to see what the hell I'm talking about.

[laughter]

With the storyline right now on the show, they're dealing with a new drug, Vertigo, and I'm wondering how your character fits within that, or is it something different all together?

It's kind of related to that, but it's not. If I told you what it was, it would completely give away the storyline, so maybe I shouldn't answer that one.

[laughter]

Cool! So how do you feel about early work in your career, with movies like The Temptations, vs. your work now. How do you feel you've changed as an actor?

Great question. In a lot of ways, I see my career as the characters I've played. Put all together, it tells a story. I started out on The Cosby Show as sort of a clean-cut kid. Then I did a bunch of guest spots playing as college kids and kids in the military. And then I went from there to Angel, where I played sort of a homeless vampire hunter who turns into a lawyer, and then from there I did two legal shows. I feel like it tells a story that's almost parallel to my life in a lot of ways, and about what it's like getting older and growing up in this time.

Sometimes when I look back at my résumé I get very proud because there's so much diversity. It's funny, early in my career people would say, “Oh, well you're being typecast as a clean-cut kid,” and then they'd say, “Oh, you're getting typecast as a lawyer.” And maybe now people will say I'm typecast as something else, but I remember that there was a time when people said I was typecast as a background singer because I did Temptations and Why Do Fools Fall in Love.

But eventually they're going to get that I seek diversity in the roles I play and diversity seeks me. So I love the challenge of doing different things, and I feel my résumé is diverse. Musicals, science fiction, legal shows, medical shows and everything in between.

Right, right. And I think I read in an interview that you were a fan of science fiction and Star Wars growing up.

I am. When I was nine-years old my friends and I would go in the backyard and play Star Wars and superheroes, play pretend. Sometimes people will ask me how I do all those fight scenes or stunts, and it's like I've been doing this my whole life. I've always been a fan of fantasy and comic books as a kid, and now I feel like I'm doing it for a living, which is really pretty wonderful.

You're also coming to Arrow after working on a project of your own, The Hypnotist. It's still in its early stages, but can you talk about how it's different being at the helm as a writer/producer/director vs. being an actor, and give some background on the project?

I love The Hypnotist. It's something I'm very passionate about. I was inspired by the Star Wars mythology in that I wanted to create a mythology of my own, and this is the beginning of it. So I'd like to do a six-part web-series that is sort of a door opening to a world I'm trying to create. It's about this woman who lives in Los Angeles who cures people of whatever they want to quit, whether it's smoking, or showing up everywhere late, or overeating, or being attracted to a certain type of person.

Whatever habit you want to cure, she can cure you through this form of hypnosis, which is called African Hypnosis. It's the earliest form of hypnosis known to the planet Earth. It allows her to enter into your subconscious mind and remove the reason why you do whatever it is you do. So whatever the deeper reason is to your smoking, she can go into your subconscious mind and remove it with you, and you'll never smoke again. It's this amazing power she has and the story goes in very interesting directions. It's going to be a labor of love, something I'm working diligently on to finish and then hopefully we'll get to continue telling the story on television or in the movie theater.

I like that idea a lot; I remember watching the first episode and wondering where reality ended and the character's mind and the hypnosis took over. It was very good.

Thank you! That episode starts in the middle of his hypnosis, and no two episodes are alike. I'm doing a lot of pitches right now, trying to find someone to partner with me on it, and people will ask, “Well, is it going to be the same every time,” and the answer is no. Sometimes people have a hard time seeing how it will work as a series, but it doesn't take me long to convince them.

And so how was it going from that to back to acting on a show like Arrow?

Working on Arrow reminded me a lot of working on Angel because they have 15 hour days as well; they worked all throughout the night as well, and it's new show on the CW which used to be the WB. So it felt a lot like being on Angel. I really liked working with the cast and crew, and the director Ken Fink, and collaborating. It was really a collaborative process to really figure out the character, because I had to fill in Mr. Blank with my performance, and hopefully that makes sense when you see it.

Your family is from Panama and you were born here. So I was really curious about how you pull your background into your work with your characters, if you do.

I do. And I'll tell you how I use it. When my parents moved to the States, we moved to a neighborhood that only had one other Black family that lived there before us. So I felt like the outsider there. Then when I was a little older, a lot of my cousins moved from Panama to the states, and when I was with my family, I was the only kid who was very Americanized because I was born here. They all spoke Spanish, I spoke English. So I felt very “other” there.

Then the schools in my neighborhood would bus either kids from other neighborhoods into our neighborhood, or they'd bus us out of my neighborhood into an inner city neighborhood, and I was an “other” there. The truth of the matter is I don't have a comfort zone as a human being. There's no one place I can go to be around everyone that's “like me”. That place doesn't exist. So I know viscerally what it feels like to be an outsider, and I try to bring that to everything I do. And the only place I truly feel at home is in a diverse environment. I think it's part of my job to bring people together.

How do you think heroes now compare to how they were decades ago? In the most recent episode of Arrow, he kills a guy, and I remember back in like the 80s, heroes weren't always allowed to kill bad guys.

[laughter]

I'm not a television scholar; make sure you note that I said that.

[laughter]

And correct me if I'm wrong, but honestly, when I watch Buffy and Angel I think that Joss was doing things then that people are doing now, and I don't think he always gets a lot of credit for the brilliance of his writing. A lot of people in the television industry know it, and there have been a lot of producers that I've worked with who give Joss so much praise, but I feel like when I watch a show – and you know how you sometimes love the main character then despise the main character – I won't say that Joss invented that, but I think he was way ahead of the curve many years ago with what he did. So now, you almost can't put a show on television if the hero isn't complicated. But back then when Buffy and Angel were on, it was a little more rare. This is my perception. I feel like Joss has always been ahead of his time.

Being on Angel was so great because the characters kept shifting, changing from week to week. One week you really love Gunn and the next couple of episodes you really hate Gunn. At the time I didn't really understand that you were supposed to hate me sometimes and you were supposed to love me sometimes. But Joss has a way of making you fall in and out of love with characters. It's a gift.

I completely agree. In college I did a presentation for a class where we were supposed to demonstrate how films were different from earlier decades vs. the modern era at that time. But I was able to compare an episode of Angel or Buffy, and a clip from Lost Boys to show how television and movies were becoming similar. With shows like Angel and Buffy, television became more like the movies in the way it's put together.

I agree. Television is amazing right now. And I had a conversation once with Joss about how he writes, and I'm still wrapping my brain around it. It was so profound, the method of how he comes up with this stuff, and I felt like a hole was burnt into my brain with the genius I was getting.

Tune in to J. August Richards as Mr. Blank on Arrow, Wednesday, April 24th at 8/7c.

Nancy O. Greene started writing at the age of nine. Her short story collection, Portraits in the Dark, received a brief mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007. Other works have appeared or will appear in ChiZine; Lovecraft eZine; Cemetery Dance; Tales of Blood and Roses; Haunted: 11 Tales of Ghostly Horror; Shroud Publishing's The Terror at Miskatonic Falls; Dark Recesses; Flames Rising; Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore!; and others. She has a BA in Cinema (Critical Studies) and a minor in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Southern California, and is a Fellow of Film Independent's Project:Involve.


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- Willa Holland Habla sobre lo que está por venir para Thea en Arrow (greenarrowtv.com):

Willa Holland Habla sobre lo que está por venir para Thea en Arrow
Por Craig Byrne 22 de Abril, 2013

Continuing our string of Arrow interviews leading to the new episode airing this Wednesday, April 24, we’d like to share highlights from when we talked to Willa Holland at a roundtable at this year’s Wondercon convention in Anaheim, California earlier this month. Some video of the interview should be coming, but for now… what do we have to look forward to from Thea? Is she going to put a bow and arrow in her hand and do something Speedy sooner rather than later?

“I’m waiting for the day that the arrow is put into my hand, guys,” she assures the table. “I’m adamant and ready to do so. I think we’re getting closer every day, but I think that the show is doing something, and I actually very much agree with what they’re doing… I think they’re going to instill the characters a little bit more before taking them on these different paths. There obviously have been hints to me being Speedy and Laurel becoming Black Canary, and then obviously, already, off the bat, Oliver is Arrow.”

“Oliver went through five years of a very traumatic event, so there were a lot of things that brought him into becoming Arrow, so I feel like it would almost be like throwing that away if we didn’t do justice to anybody else becoming those characters,” she continues. “It wouldn’t do justice to him. I think that it’s very true, and it’s also giving us the option to really dig in and go through more emotional and dramatic stuff with our characters, and find our characters before they find themselves. It’s quite interesting. That’s half the joy; the excitement and the anticipation of ‘when the heck are they going to write that in?’ You know what I mean? There is all that stuff on the back burner, but it’s almost better waiting for it; the anticipation.”

BetrayalWilla says that between her new job and interaction with Laurel at CNRI and her new relationship with Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), things are starting to look good for Oliver Queen’s little sister. “I think she’s almost somewhat… on a virtuous path, finally,” she says. A lot of what we’ll see of Thea in the season’s final episodes will happen in present day, though she promises “a little snippet” in the flashbacks in Episode 21, “The Undertaking.” While she refuses to spoil it, there may be an unintentional reference to something her character Kaitlyn did on The O.C.. “There’s been like a thousand script revisions since then, so I don’t know which take they’re going to use,” she says, providing that out if we don’t find it in the finished product.

“I don’t think that the flashback is very adamantly about Thea or Oliver, actually. I think it really doesn’t have much to do with them. I think it has more to do with Robert, Walter, and Moira’s relationship as a whole. They do show Oliver and Laurel together a few times, but the flashbacks really do surround Moira and what she’s up to, and how it all kind of began,” she teases.

One thing is certain — we will be getting some good Thea material between now and the May 15 season finale, and a lot of that will involve her interaction with Roy. “You would think Thea would start following Roy down his kind of dangerous path, but in all actuality, since she’s going through a good stage in her life, it’s almsot like she’s trying to put him underneath her newly found steady wings. There’s that interesting thing that happens at the end of ‘Salvation,’ where he’s holding the red arrow, and they kind of now are going on this journey, almost, to find out who the Arrow is,” she teases.

Dodger“Roy gets kind of enamored… obviously, the Arrow saved his life, so who wouldn’t be enamored with someone who saved his life?” Willa hints. “So he’s now on a path to find out who he is, and Thea, being completely in love with the guy, follows him, and is very reluctant to do so at first, because she knows how absolutely dangerous the guy is, and also, there’s the Black Archer that’s out there, too. There’s a whole dynamic that’s going around. It’s scary. I think she’s kind of afraid of the fact that she might be unwillingly searching after her own brother,” she says, before assuring us that Thea doesn’t actually know just yet. “I don’t think she has any idea about that, but I think just the idea, the fact that she’s searching after the Arrow, is kind of just a little scary,” she says.


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- Stephen Amell de Arrow adelanta los episodios finales de la Season 1 (greenarrowtv):

Stephen Amell de Arrow adelanta los episodios finales de la Season 1
Por Craig Byrne 23 de Abril, 2013

Arrow returns with new episodes on Wednesday, April 24, and in the middle of a whirlwind day of press that includes an appearance on The Tonight Show this evening, the show’s lead actor, Stephen Amell, spent some time this morning with a special press Q&A with several media outlets including KSiteTV. This means, of course, that we’ll be reading a lot from Stephen in the coming days.

The season finale of Arrow airs May 15, and in it, we can surely expect a confrontation between Amell’s Oliver Queen (Arrow) and the Dark Archer, played by popular genre TV favorite John Barrowman. These scenes have been building up since the series’ beginning.

“We had the fight in Episode 9, and there are a couple of fights (plural) to go,” Stephen tells us. “It’s wonderful, because we have this entire mythology for the season, and in Episode 21 [airing May 1], we’re flashing back to before Oliver set sail on the Queen’s Gambit with his dad, and the entire mythology of our first season, and the reason why almost everybody is doing what they’re doing, is laid out by Barrowman in this very eloquent John Barrowman-esque monologue. It’s nice, because it pays off what we’ve been setting up, and just as a viewer, I would like it, because you sit there and you go, ‘Oh! Wow! These guys… they had a plan.’ We had a plan from the moment that we saw John’s character, and even the glyph in the second episode. That was the first connection, where Moira sits in the car and says ‘he’ll never know,’ and we see the glyph… all of that’s coming home to roost right now,” he teases. Does this mean that Oliver will find out what exactly the deal is with The Undertaking? “The viewers definitely find it out,” Stephen says. “I think it would be sort of sad if Oliver didn’t find out, but who’s to say.”

If Oliver does find out, this could mean trouble for his mother, Moira, who is off limits at this point. “Oliver said specifically at the end of Episode 14, ‘we don’t know what The Undertaking is, and until we do, she is off limits.’ So, we’re going to find out what The Undertaking is soon, and if she’s involved, it’s not gonna just go quietly into the night,” Stephen explains.The final episode for the season is said to do a good job of wrapping things up while still previewing upcoming storylines. “I love the season finales, and the end of seasons in general, that tie everything off, and you go ‘Wow! Where is it gonna go’?” Stephen says. “And just when you think there’s nothing, you sprinkle in a few little things. So whether it’s Diggle’s involvement with a certain organization that we’re seeing over the next couple of episodes, or me confronting Roy with Thea right there in a particular scene, while we are servicing a lot of our storylines for Season 1, you do start to see little Easter eggs along the way for Season 2.” Might there be a chance that not everyone will make it out alive? “There’s always a chance. Really crazy stuff is happening, and no one is ever safe,” he says cryptically.Stephen stresses, however, that people shouldn’t be fooled into thinking the May 8 episode, “Darkness On The Edge Of Town,” is the season finale. “I’m going to have to do a very good job, and I would ask that you guys help as well, letting people know that Episode 22 is not our season finale, because there is enough in Episode 22, both in the present and on the island, that you could just say ‘okay, that’s it. I need a break until October’,” he says.

Looking forward… could we see some of the characters from the island flashbacks in present day, especially since at least one of them — Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson — is a series regular next year? “It does sort of seem like an inevitability that eventually some aspect of the island will touch Oliver’s life in the present day,” Stephen says. “I mean, really… just name a character from the island: Slade. Shado. Edward Fyers. Yao Fei. If any of those people showed up in the present day, I think that would be awesome. I am a huge fan of LOST, and the most interesting switch in the storyline for me was when we found out that they got off the island. So you’re saying ‘okay. That’s interesting. They got off the island. How did they get off the island?’ Let’s say that Shado showed up in the present day, and she and Oliver had all of this history that they were discussing, and maybe they hugged and kissed when she showed up. I don’t know. But then you switch back to the island, you start going ‘well wait. How did this happen?’ Because maybe the characters are in a different place. From a storyline standpoint, that would be really fun, and as an acting exercise, that would be cool, because you can’t play to what you know is happening. It has to happen naturally,” he explains.

Also looking to the show’s future, many viewers might wonder about Oliver’s lack of a mask, as he instead goes for a painted-on mask look. Could that change? Stephen tells us anything is possible. “We really view Oliver right now as The Hood, or Arrow 1.0, and that goes along with the season. He’s living in the year 2013 and he’s using a wood bow that he made on the island. Things are going to change with him as time goes on. You’re always going to introduce new gadgets. That’s what Felicity’s going to be for! She’s going to research some cool new thing that I’m going to use. So I do think that there could be a mask. I know that there’s no firm plans for it, but Andrew and Marc are not saying ‘absolutely no mask, ever.’ It’s an evolutionary thing,” he says.


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- Jefe de Arrow Habla sobre el 'Épico' Plan Maestro de Dark Archer, la retorcida lealtad de Tommy y una verdad que se escapa (TVLine.com):

Jefe de Arrow Habla sobre el 'Épico' Plan Maestro de Dark Archer, la retorcida lealtad de Tommy y una verdad que se escapa
Por Matt Webb Mitovich 23 de Abril, 2013 02:29 PM PDT

Arrow Season Finale PreviewThis Wednesday at 8/7c, The CW’s Arrow pulls back far on his string and lets fly with the first of Season 1′s final four episodes.

When last we tuned into the hit freshman drama, Tommy Merlyn — the only person not on Team Arrow who’s privy to Oliver Queen’s supersecret — had broken things off with his bud and joined up with his father Malcolm, who unbeknownst to anyone is the Dark Archer.

Showrunner Andrew Kreisberg shared with TVLine an overview of the final hours to come, which feature a lot of infighting, much ruminating about The Undertaking and a season-ending “Sacrifice.”

TVLINE | For starters, with Tommy aligning with his father, are we heading into a Harry/Norman Osborn-type thing?
[Laughs] There are definitely seeds of that. There’s a lot of tension to be mined now that there’s a rift between Oliver and Tommy. Everyone else who knows Oliver’s secret is on board with him and is part of his team, and now you have this “rogue” element. Where Tommy’s loyalties lie and how that fits in with Laurel, and his father, all comes to a head at the end of the season. This season has been all about change, how noHome Invasion character is who they were at the start of the season — Tommy more so than anyone.

TVLINE | Is it accurate to say that the Dark Archer is your big bad for the remainder of this season? No more weekly villains?
There’s one more big villain, in Episode 20 – [an assassin named] Mr. Blank, played by J. August Richards from Angel. But yes, Malcolm Merlyn and the Dark Archer take over as our big bad for the season.

TVLINE | Just how tense will things get between Oliver and Diggle as they disagree over handling the Deadshot situation?
It’s going to get very tense. It’s going to create a big rift between the two friends. This is Dig’s new raison d’etre, finding out that the man who killed his brother is out there and still killing. He’s hell-bent on getting justice, and that’s not always going to jibe with Oliver’s mission. There are a lot of rifts in these last few episodes, between many of these main characters.

TVLINE | Talk about Roy Harper’s journey. Colton Haynes told me he’s determined to ally with The Hood.
Everyone’s been changed by Oliver’s return, Roy Harper included. He was a street hustler, somebody who didn’t think he would live past his 25th birthday. His goal in these last few episodes is to hook up with the Arrow. He brings Thea on board, and that puts Thea Home Invasionon a collision course with finding out her brother’s true identity.

TVLINE | You recently introduced Shado to the island flashback story. In your mind, what does she bring to the table that’s different?
For one thing, she brings a woman’s touch, which is something the island has been entirely lacking up to this point. We feel like Oliver had many fathers, going from who he was to who he is now, and Shado is one of them. We’d always intended that; that’s why we gave him Shado’s tattoo in the pilot. And when we were trying to come up with a reason why Yao Fei would be going along with Fyre’s plan, we realized, “Oh, what if we gave him a daughter… and oh my god, his daughter could be Shado!” Plus, it’s just fun. There’s no surprise that Oliver survives the island, so the only surprises are who we bring onto the island for him to meet and how we change things up there. The show had been very much Robinson Crusoe, very Kung Fu with him and Yao Fei. Then we brought on Slade, which completely changed the dynamic. And now Shado has completely changed the dynamic again. It also adds a little bit of romance to those scenes.

TVLINE | What new information will we get from the Starling City flashback episode, “The Undertaking” (airing May 1)?
We’re going to see an Oliver that we really haven’t seen since the first act of the pilot, which is the Oliver before any of this stuff had happened — which is yet another character that Steven [Amell] is now playing. The UndertakingIt’s really fun, because this episode was designed to fill in a lot of the blanks that had been left throughout the season, so that when we get to Episodes 122 and 123, it’s really a roller coaster.

TVLINE | And we’ll get the full 411 on The Undertaking?

Yes. Everything you’ve wanted to know about The Undertaking but were afraid to ask. The Undertaking obviously has two meanings, and it felt like it fit on nicely with what we were trying to do — especially when you discover what The Undertaking is. [The episode] is also filling in some relationship stuff, explaining some of the behaviors that we saw in the pilot and the early episodes, why people are the way they are.

TVLINE | The synopsis for that episode also says, “Tommy stuns Laurel with the truth” — care to elaborate? Or should we be wondering what “truth” is at hand?
People should be wondering what that truth is. Again, not every truth is about the plot. Sometimes these truths are emotional, and they can be just as powerful as the mechanics of what’s happening in the episode.

TVLINE | The May 15 season finale is titled “Sacrifice.” As such, one of our readers wants to know if someone’s gonna die.
You know, The Undertaking is epic, and it is scheduled to happen in the finale. Stopping it — or not stopping it — will prove to be a monumental challenge, so… I think everybody just needs to watch and find out what it’s going to take to stop Malcolm.

TVLINE | You’ve got me wondering there, with a seismologist cast in the finale. I’m picturing Lex Luthor and Otisburg….
“Otisburg? Otisburg?!” “Miss Teschmacher, she’s got her own place!”

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- Stephen Amell & Emily Bett Rickards hablan sobre la tensión para el equipo de 'Arrow' (examiner.com):

Stephen Amell & Emily Bett Rickards hablan sobre la tensión para el equipo de 'Arrow'
Por Danielle Turchiano 23 de Abril, 2013


The CW's Arrow started its debut season with a solitary man on a mission. Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) was alone on the island in the pilot episode, and alone on his quest to take down corruption in Starling City once he was rescued from said island and returned home. But as episodes have gone on, he has developed a small team around him, relying on both his bodyguard Diggle (David Ramsey) and computer genius Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) to aid him as the vigilante. The three spend a lot of secret time together in pretty close quarters under Oliver's nightclub, where he created a training facility and information center. And though they're working towards a common goal, it's only a matter of time before methods-- if not personalities-- begin to clash.

"We do see some tension happen between Diggle and Oliver," Rickards said to LA TV Insider Examiner of Arrow's "Home Invasion" episode when we sat down with her in Los Angeles.

In the episode, Oliver, Diggle, and Felicity learn that a sting operation is underway to capture Deadshot– alive. But Diggle is determined to see his brother’s killer dead, with or without Ollie’s help. In a way, Felicity is caught in the middle between these two guys, but not in the usual romantic triangle/sexual tension sort of way.

"I think what Felicity's trying to do is preserve everyone as an individual; she doesn't want to see Oliver get lost under The Hood, and she doesn't want to see Diggle get lost in this drive to get Deadshot and kill him-- as revenge," Rickards said.

"What does happen is there is happen between the two [about] who is getting absorbed. They're just both fanatics in doing what they're doing."

Amell weighed in on Oliver's drive at this point in the story and whether or not it Felicity has real cause to be worried: "As things ramp up towards the season finale, he's just focused more and more on the task at hand, whether it's his fathers lists, the glyph, how it relates to the Glades, the sort of looming specter of Tommy knowing his secrets; there's not a lot of time for him to have perspective right now, and that's probably why so many things are about to come crashing down."

Both actors pointed out that because of the rift between Diggle and Oliver, Felicity and Oliver end up getting closer.

"In episode 21 and in episode 22, Emily and I get very close!" Amell said.

"I think that every day he sees Felicity, he finds out how capable she is...By the time we get to 22 and 23, 23 especially, with the stakes as high as they are, it's not the IT girl in the Arrow cave; it's you are a member of the team, on equal footing with myself and with Diggle, and we need you as much as you need us in this scenario. So I think Oliver sees her as an equal and a very capable individual. And just based on her knowing more about me than just about anyone at this point in my everyday life, she can probably challenge me in ways that other people can't, and that's always very attractive."

But Rickards was quick to add that Diggle isn't getting left completely out in the cold, either. Felicity cares about both guys as her friends, and she is working really hard to be as "neutral" as possible.

"There are some really great Olicity moments in this episode, and I don't know how to really ship Diggle and Felicity, but [they] have a really great scene as well. Dilicity? Dilicity's kind of good!" Rickards said.


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- La estrella de 'Arrow' Stephen Amell nos cuenta 10 cosas estupendas sobre el final de la temporada (zap-2-it):

La estrella de 'Arrow' Stephen Amell nos cuenta 10 cosas estupendas sobre el final de la temporada
Por Carina Adly MacKenzie 23 Abril, 2013 7:20 PM ET


Achieving a balance between romance and action, plot and heart isn't the easiest thing for a show to do in its freshman season, but "Arrow" has surpassed all of our considerably high expectations this year. So much so that we pretty much despise every time the show goes on hiatus. And we're not alone.

"Breaks are terrible," Stephen Amell agrees. "I understand why they're necessary, but I'm so proud of the last four episodes, and the last two in particular, that I just want everyone to see them."

While we're not particularly looking forward to a summer of reruns, Stephen tells us that the end of the season will leave us so overwhelmed we might welcome a break. (We have our doubts.) In the meantime, here are ten awesome things he has to say about the final four episodes of this chapter. New episodes return this Wednesday, April 24 at 8 p.m. EST on The CW.

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1. The love triangle isn't over. The scene between Laurel and Oliver outside of Verdant from a few weeks back made it pretty clear that Oliver misses Laurel... and that she misses him. This week, Oliver and Tommy will start to confront their shared affection for Laurel. "We're actually going to get some clarification as to how Oliver feels [about Laurel] this week. I would expect to see my character and Katie [Cassidy]'s character together a lot more toward the end of the season," Stephen says. "And that's not good for Tommy."

2. Oliver's issues with his mom will resurface. "Oliver said specifically at the end of Episode 14, we don't know what the undertaking is and until we do, she's off limits. Well, we're going to find out what the Undertaking is soon, and if she's involved, it's not going to go quietly into the night." The tension could potentially lead to Oliver moving out of his mom's house next season. "God, I hope so," Stephen laughs. "Even if the season ends with them skipping down the yellow brick road together, I mean, he's like 30 years old! He needs to get his own apartment. Quote me on that one."

3. Other heroes will start to come into play. We know that there are other DC Comics heroes in the "Arrow" universe, but Oliver's connections to those heroes might surprise us. "There's a wonderful tease at the beginning of the finale, with respect to origins that Oliver has that we don't know about yet," Stephen says cryptically.

4. Stephen has been doing more and more of his own stunts -- which means more elaborate action sequences for us to enjoy. "We've been making fun of my stunt double [Simon Burnett] because for the past three or four days of the finale, he didn't do anything," Stephen says (rather gleefully). He's particularly proud of the scene that opens the season finale, in which we find Oliver chained to the ceiling and left for dead. "He didn't do a thing, and that's an incredibly physical sequence. I'm getting better, and the stunt coordinator and the fight choreographer are getting more attuned to what I'm able to do, so when they design these sequences ... they are starting to play to my strengths a little bit, so I'm getting to do a ton."

5. Pre-Island flashbacks in Episode 121, "The Undertaking," will show a new side of Oliver. "I'd never really played that guy before except for one real quick scene in the pilot, and it went really well ... I get to shoot some stuff with Katie, and it was just fun to play that character, to be carefree," he says, referring to Oliver before the Island. The flashbacks reveal why Oliver brings Sara on the Queen's Gambit instead of Laurel, and when he does, we'll get a glimpse of Oliver's relationship with his father. "His father's kind of saying, 'That's not the best idea,' but also giving him the secret high-five," Stephen jokes.

6. A meaningful scene between Oliver and Roy is coming. Stephen tells us that we can look forward to Oliver confronting Roy in a scene with Thea, which will establish their relationship. Expect to see much more of their connection next season. "While we are servicing a lot of our storylines for Season 1, you do start to see Easter eggs for Season 2," he says. "Thea and Roy are on the trail of the vigilante ... and if the police can't just up and catch him, they're not going to just up and catch him, but Oliver does catch wind of this before the end of the season, which leads to some interesting interaction between the three of them."

7. The second-to-last episode is so good, people might confuse it for a finale. "I'm going to have to do a very good job letting people know that Episode 22 is not our season finale," he laughs. "Because there's enough in Episode 22, both in the present and on the island, that you could just say 'Okay, that's it. I need a break until October.'"

8. We may be looking at an equipment upgrade. The wooden bow that Oliver fashioned on the Island has taken quite a beating this year. "He's living in the year 2013 and he's using a wood bow that he made on the island. Things are going to change with him as time goes on. We've always got to introduce new gadgets. [Felicity's] going to research some cool new thing that I'm going to use," he says. That could include his costume -- while there are no firm plans for Oliver to ditch his green make-up for an actual mask, it may be in the cards down the line.

9. Diggle and Oliver take a break from the bromance. "Oliver and Diggle have a little bit of a falling out, because Diggle is really after getting Floyd Lawton, and is becoming a little bit obsessive. Oliver doesn't share the same commitment, because there's still an overall goal," Amell teases. It bothers Diggle that Oliver isn't dedicated to his cause, given how much Diggle has given to helping Oliver's mission this year. The good news? The clash is only temporary. The other good news? Diggle doing his own thing means there's an open position. "He's not at my disposal, and I have to send young Miss Smoak into the field," Stephen teases. And speaking of our favorite IT girl...

10. Oliver doesn't see Felicity as a little sister figure in his life. We're hoping that sparks eventually fly between these two, and judging by the #olicity Twitter tag, we're not alone. "I think that every day that he sees Felicity, he finds out how capable she is. They have to work very closely together in Episode 21 and in Episode 22. Emily [Bett Rickards] and I get very close in both of those episodes," says Stephen. "Just based on her knowing more about me than anyone at this point in my present day life, she can probably challenge me in ways that other people can't, and that's always attractive." When asked whether Oliver sees Felicity as a little sister or as a woman, Stephen says definitively, "I think he sees her as a woman."


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- Stephen Amell Talks All Things “Arrow”… and Canada, Los Angeles 23-04-13 (KTLA):

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- Stephen Amell – Tonight Show With Jay Leno, NBC (23-04-13)

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- J. August Richards Habla sobre Arrow y echa una mirada atrás hacia Angel (IGN.com):

J. August Richards Habla sobre Arrow y echa una mirada atrás hacia Angel
Por Eric Goldman 23 de Abril, 2013

J. August Richards is guest starring this Wednesday on Arrow, playing an incredibly effective assassin called Mr. Blank. It’s a busy time for the Angel alum, who also has a mysterious role in the top secret Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot, which reunites him with Joss Whedon.

I spoke to Richards about his Arrow appearance and the appeal of genre material. I also tried (but failed, alas) to get him to say anything about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and we looked back on the epic ending of Angel.

IGN: How would you describe Mr. Blank? It sounds like he’s quite a dangerous character, to say the least.

J. August Richards: I would describe Mr. Blank as a sociopathic Nate Berkus. Now, I don’t know if you know who Nate Berkus is, but he’s an interior decorator and he’s very passionate about the way that spaces feel. And so my character has no emotions regarding human beings. However, he’s very sensitive to the energy of a space, which I found very strange and very difficult to play. Also, he takes his work so seriously, that he spends his entire life making himself invisible, so that he can creep in and out of the shadows to do his work, which is killing people. And for him, it’s just liked data entry. It doesn’t mean anything. Killing somebody, there’s no emotion behind it – it’s just like punching a number into a computer.

IGN: You mentioned the challenge this was an actor, which I can only imagine. Usually, you’d be looking to tap into the emotion of a scene, but here you have to turn away from that.

Richards: Exactly, and that was very difficult - to do things and kind of have no opinion about it, as an actor. And it’s hard for me because I’m a very empathetic person. I like to engage with people onscreen and off, so to find a way to not do that yet -- stay emotionally alive enough to feel the room -- was very, very difficult.

IGN: Mr. Blank is not from the comics, but was it fun to jump into the whole comic book-derived world that Arrow has created?

J. August Richards: Absolutely. I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters. You can’t look at a lot of other things to figure out how to play it. You just have to really do the work and find it yourself and I really, really enjoy that. I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new and that’s when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on Arrow.

IGN: Can we expect some physical confrontations between Mr. Blank and OIiver?

Richards: You know, that was the other thing that really excited me about taking the role was there are a lot of stunts. Over my career, I’ve had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts and I so enjoy stunts. So yes, Oliver and I have an epic fight scene that I think people are going to love and that was so much fun to work on. There are other stunts in there too that I get to do that I just love.

IGN: What was it like working with Stephen Amell on the show?

J. August Richards: It was great. He’s in so many scenes and the hours are so long, and I’m always impressed by an actor who can do that volume of work and still say very positive, so I enjoyed working with him a lot. He really throws himself into the part. He has the opportunity to really do a lot of the stunts and a lot of the fight scenes and he does a great job with them.

IGN: Some people come out of their encounters with Oliver alive, some don’t. But if the opportunity were there, would you hope to play Mr. Blank again?

Richards: Oh man, in a heartbeat. Let me tell you though… I know that actors say this all the time, but just please feel my sincerity… Their crew for Arrow is just one of the most wonderful crews that I’ve worked with. I know that actors say that all the time and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it’s so true. Let me tell you how nice their crew is. I complimented one of the crew members on their hat, and he sent me two in the mail, when I got back to L.A. I mean how nice is that? His name is Chris in FX. So I would jump at the opportunity. I know Marc Guggenheim and Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg and I love those guys as well, so I would jump at the opportunity to work on it again. And working for The CW always feels like old home week for me.

IGN: I was going to ask you about that, because obviously it’s not directly The WB, but it was sort of spawned from it. So you do feel that connection still?

J. August Richards: Oh, absolutely. I feel like one of the originals. [Laughs] I’ll never not feel that way. I don’t care what they call the network. But it’s always great to work for the CW again, because as you know, I did my first series there and I have nothing but fond feelings for the network and my experiences there and my experiences working on Angel. And I love that I get to stay alive in genre series, because it’s one of my favorites to work in – one of my favorite styles to do.

IGN: I would be remiss if I didn’t ask about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I know you can’t say specifics on what you’re playing, but what was the experience like working with Joss again?

Richards: Gosh, I’m just so not at liberty to talk about that, unfortunately! I’m so sorry!

IGN: [Laughs] Well, Joss said it was great to work with you again.

J. August Richards: Did he?

IGN: Yes, at the MTV Movie Awards.

Richards: Aw, that’s nice. Well, I mean, I’ve worked with Joss… and it’s always great working with him, as well. But I don’t know… as far as anything else, I’m not at liberty to discuss anything else. [Laughs]

IGN: I’m a big fan of Angel and I particularly love the final episode – it’s one of my favorite series finales ever.

J. August Richards: Oh, thank you!

IGN: It purposely ended with some ambiguity and we didn’t exactly see what was going to happen next. What do you think of the ending, particularly looking back a few years later?

Richards: Yeah, it was very controversial at the time. As far as my interaction with fans, some people really got it and loved it and some people didn’t like it so much. But I personally loved it, because I thought that what it was saying – and I think he said it very clearly through my character – really, is that regardless of the amount of work that it appears ahead of you, you always stay in the fight. You do not give up. No matter how outnumbered you are, the battle for good continues. And I just thought it was such an optimistic and positive and wonderful ending, with a lot of meaning, as far as who these characters were. I thought it was beautiful. Just for me, that was the easiest moment I ever had playing that character, because in that last scene, it was actually my last shot as well. And I was just there, man. I knew I was saying goodbye to the character in the story and in my life and it was so easy to play. So I loved that episode and I loved the ending.

IGN: Yeah, I remember seeing people upset, asking, “So should we just assume they all died?” or wanting to know more about what happened next. But I always took the ending to basically be saying these characters will go out fighting, whether it’s this day or another day, because that’s who they are. I thought that was a great way to end it.

J. August Richards: Exactly. Because Joss’ writing, it’s so about now. It takes place in a science fiction world, but it’s always really about what’s going on in the world now and things that we all experience, currently. So that was a great message for me, personally. Even though sometimes you feel like you’re outnumbered, just keep fighting.

IGN: There have been Angel comic books since that have specifically said what happens next. Is that interesting for you or kind of weird for you, because it’s not you guys playing the roles?

Richards: Yeah, I stayed away from it for the longest time. I couldn’t avoid it after awhile, because people would buy me the comic or show it to me when I was at appearances. But I wanted to leave it right where it was, because it was so perfect for me, where we left it, that I didn’t really want to know what happened afterwards, unless I was going to get an opportunity to act it. So I really tried to leave it alone, but I have an idea of the stuff that has gone on for my character since. So yeah, it is a little weird for me.

IGN: You’re in Arrow this week, and then S.H.I.E.L.D. It’s a big year for you and comic book adaptations. Were you a comic book reader?

Richards: I own 1000 comic books. I was a comic book guy since middle school. I love comic books. I love science fiction. I feel like all I’m doing right now as a career is, I still sort of feel like I’m playing Star Wars with my friends at 9 years old. I feel like somehow I made a living out of playing Star Wars.


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