Grant Gustin Writes Wonderful Letter Thanking Fans For FLASH Season One

Grant Gustin Writes Wonderful Letter Thanking Fans For FLASH Season One

"Every time I stop and think about the fact that I get to play The Flash and Barry Allen and there are people out there that love our show... I can't even fully explain it to be honest."

By MarkJulian - May 16, 2015 02:05 PM EST
Filed Under: The Flash
Source: Grant Gustin FB

Many comic book fans were on the fence when it was first announced that former Glee actor Grant Gustin would be portraying Barry Allen on The CW's Flash.  Fan reaction became even murkier when WB announced that Ezra Miller would be playing the Flash in their budding DC Cinematic Universe.  However, Gustin has persevered above it all and has won over most of his doubtersand gone on  to supplant Stephen Amell's Arrow as The CW's most watched show.  Gustin is obviously aware of his success and doesn't take it for granted.   The season finale of The Flash airs this Tuesday at 8PM on The CW. Season 2 can't get here fast enough!

 

It's happening, guys. The finale is finally here. THIS TUESDAY. It was a long, emotional season and it's all about to come to an end. Well, there will be some closure at least. It is the season finale of The Flash after all.. it can't be ALL sunshine and smiles. You'll just have to come back for season 2.

Check out the trailer if you please. I do suppose it could be considered SOMEWHAT spoilery. As usual though, it does not reallyyyyyy give away any of the big reveals...

AGAIN, I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for tuning in to our show all season and making it the hit that it has become. Every time I stop and think about the fact that I get to play The Flash and Barry Allen and there are people out there that love our show... I can't even fully explain it to be honest. It almost feels like I'm watching it happen to someone else at times. I will always feel grateful for getting to do what I love to do and now I have all of you to thank for helping me get to do that, AND on what I think is a ground breaking show led by geniuses Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg & Geoff Johns. I really believe they are the perfect people to be bringing this iconic character to life. They love this character & they're incredibly passionate about getting him right. They're also pretty okay guys and I love working with them. I feel incredibly lucky.

I also feel very lucky to get to work with the cast & crew every single day on this show. We have spent some lonnnggggg days & nights together and we all know how challenging it was to make every single one of the 23 episodes we made this season. I have so much respect for every person I got to work with on this first season. It was no joke.

I especially love our cast. Jesse, Tom, Candice, Danielle, Los & Pretty Ricky. The "we moved to Canada to make this tv show" group. I love you all. You inspire me every day and getting to work with you is a dream. Our show doesn't accidentally rock. It's because you all bust your butts because you want to and it's fun. I can't wait to start season 2 with you.

I can't not mention awesome cast members John Wesley Shipp, Patrick Sabongui, Robbie Amell, Stephen Amell, Emily Bett Rickards, Brandon Routh, Paul Blackthorne, Katie Cassidy, Wentworth Miller, Dom Purcell, Victor Garber, Liam McIntyre, Malese Jow, Clancy Brown, Michelle Harrison, Logan Williams, Greg Finley, Chad Rook, Nicholas Gonzalez, Andy Mientus, Emily Kinney, Paul Anthony, Anthony Carrigan, Dani Nicolet, Britne Oldford, Micah Parker, Devon Graye, Chase Masterson, Doug Jones, Peyton List, Kelly Frye, Roger Howarth, Michael Smith, Matt Letscher, Michael Reventar, Amanda Pays, Isabella Hofmann, Jeremy Schuetze, Robert Knepper, Vito D'Ambrosio, Al Sapienza, David Ramsey, William Sadler & Mark Hamill. I realize that's a long list of people, but for me being relatively "new" to the business and having never been a regular a show before, getting to work with all of those actors and watching them help bring our show to life always made it feel like that much more of an authentic world to me. Those are some heavy hitters and bad ass actors on that list. SO i guesses I should also thank David Rapaport for bringing all of them to us and for jump starting this opportunity for me as well.

OKAY.

I apologize for the ramble.

Thank you for putting up with it if you made it through all of my poor grammar and absurd train of thought.

Point is...thank you & watch the season finale please.
 

 

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xcan
xcan - 5/16/2015, 2:54 PM
First!!!!)()()()()!!!!
MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 5/16/2015, 2:54 PM
xcan
xcan - 5/16/2015, 2:55 PM
Also, he's an awesome Flash. Wasn't sold initially, but he's been great. Good job, Grant.
Kurne
Kurne - 5/16/2015, 2:58 PM
Although I consider him a... terrible lead, I admire all the effort he's put into the role. I love seeing actors like himself or Amell/Charlie Cox become true fans after picking up these roles.
Kurne
Kurne - 5/16/2015, 2:59 PM
Even those bloody guest stars have gotten all giddy over a 20 second cameo.
mistral1
mistral1 - 5/16/2015, 3:00 PM
It's been a fantastic show and I'm sold with him as Barry. Hope season 2 is as good as this one was, if not better. Right now I can't picture Ezra Miller as The Flash.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 5/16/2015, 3:00 PM
Forgot he was on "Glee." Never watched that show.
MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 5/16/2015, 3:02 PM
@Jollem That's a pretty awesome pic. I happen to be one of the few who like Gotham and Constantine too.
kburn123
kburn123 - 5/16/2015, 3:03 PM
Great show.I doubted him at first and he brought his A game so I'm quite hopeful for miller as the movie version
Hulksta
Hulksta - 5/16/2015, 3:04 PM
Such a down to earth dude, and cool.

No wonder DC doesn't want to use him in their movies.
DarthBastard
DarthBastard - 5/16/2015, 3:05 PM
he's really good, too bad he's got shit writers behind him that give him nothing to do. He's never proactive, he never figures anything on his own, everything boils down to Cisco talking to him on the ear piece. That and his unnatural obsession with that smug [foo foo] Iris is making him unlikable.
NovaCorpsFan
NovaCorpsFan - 5/16/2015, 3:06 PM
Grant's been freaking great. Can't see anyone else as The Flash, honestly.
SnapperCarr
SnapperCarr - 5/16/2015, 3:06 PM
Not looking forward to Ezra Miller at all.
hgokuh
hgokuh - 5/16/2015, 3:08 PM
@CaptShipwreck seeing that you know what happens in the future, can you please give me next week's lottery numbers?
NovaCorpsFan
NovaCorpsFan - 5/16/2015, 3:08 PM
Also, Tom Cavanagh has been a show-stealer all season. The man's brilliant.
Kyos
Kyos - 5/16/2015, 3:10 PM
Grant's a good guy! I like how dedicated and appreciative he is about this role, much like Amell. I hope that Flash can keep up the pace with its second season, and that Arrow can hit the mark again in S4.

voxen
voxen - 5/16/2015, 3:12 PM
The reason Grant has been able to warm up to so many fans as good Flash is because TV allows for character growth and story development and for the audience to really get to know the character and the actor. Its for this reason I worry Ezra Miller just isn't going to wow anyone. He has maybe 2 hrs to do what Grant had an entire season to do. Plus he won't even be in the film that much so there is even less time for him to make a proper impression. I am not saying he can't do it I am just saying if they were going to pic an actor that is soooo much different then the character he is portraying they should have used him on TV so we could get use to him.
Ghostyy
Ghostyy - 5/16/2015, 3:14 PM
The Flash was incredible, I didn't expect such high quality from a CW show. Tom Cavanagh was absolutely brilliant and hopefully we will see more of him in the seasons to come.
Verzwei
Verzwei - 5/16/2015, 3:14 PM
He's awesome, unlike Stephen Amell
FirstAvenger
FirstAvenger - 5/16/2015, 3:17 PM
Grant just tweeted this link. Cool.
Pasto
Pasto - 5/16/2015, 3:18 PM
2013
"Grant Gustin as the Flash? SUCH BAD CASTING!"

"Really? They cast this Glee guy as the Scarlet Speedster? Way to fail, DC."

"Mark me down as someone who won't be seeing this shit show when it comes out."

2015
"This guy is so awesome. He's such a down to earth guy."

"I absolutely LOVE this guy as the Flash. Seriously, great actor."

"This dude seems so down to earth."

2014
"Ezra Miller as the Flash? Really?"

Do you see a theme here?
the
the - 5/16/2015, 3:19 PM
Guy writes a letter to thank the fans....commenters use the space to plug in their complaints...about other sh*t.

Grant Gustin...no, thank you and the rest of the cast for such an amazing show.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/16/2015, 3:19 PM
He IS THE FLASH!!!! Wonderful guy. Badass mother[frick]a. Got mad respect for him and HE SHOULD BE THE DCCU FLASH!!!
Salute!
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 5/16/2015, 3:20 PM
Emblemmaniac
Emblemmaniac - 5/16/2015, 3:22 PM
@NovaCorpsFan

That is probably because you are used to him at the moment, just like we have a hard time see someone taking over hugh jackman as wolverine, or robert downey junior for Iron Man.

Grant is great in what version of the Speedster they want to tell in the Flash show. But that does not mean that there are no actor that would work better for some future version of the specific charachter. Is this a defense for Ezra Miller for his movie ? You could see it that way. But this comment is more just for the fact that i highly dissagree with you that it is just one actor that works for a part. To be quite frank. I don't even think Grant is that great personally. I think he is more Peter Parker then Barry Allen to be honest, and if you want to take that as a negative or possitive towards Grant that is upp to you.

There is a saying that goes - Every charachter is allways bigger then the actor. And quite frankly that is pretty true.

Emblemmaniac
Emblemmaniac - 5/16/2015, 3:23 PM
@Verzwei

While Amell might not be the best of actors, he sure is a great guy off screen with all his work against cancer and such
Emblemmaniac
Emblemmaniac - 5/16/2015, 3:26 PM
@ComicsBornAndBred

No he should not. He is not that great of an actor, and just because he "works" for the shows does not indicate that he would work for the version that they want to do in the movies.

An charachter is not made to serve the actor, the actor is there to serve the charachter. They should not write a version of the flash so they can use Grant, but rather wright the best flash possible and then cast the actor that works best for it.
FrozenDiamondz
FrozenDiamondz - 5/16/2015, 3:26 PM
@TheMarvelite

Saw the first 2 seasons and I agree
Emblemmaniac
Emblemmaniac - 5/16/2015, 3:26 PM
@Pasto

As Peter David said in the interview about Jason Momoas Aquaman. Fans never learn
TronVin
TronVin - 5/16/2015, 3:27 PM
@Pasto







FrozenDiamondz
FrozenDiamondz - 5/16/2015, 3:29 PM
@TronVin

People actually wanted Welling as Superman? yikes
Emblemmaniac
Emblemmaniac - 5/16/2015, 3:29 PM
@TronVin

SMallville has one of the worst fanbase ever
Emblemmaniac
Emblemmaniac - 5/16/2015, 3:33 PM
@DIAMONDZ

Well, i allmost got a knife at might throat just because i said that Tom Welling was never Superman untill the last Episode.
megabatfan
megabatfan - 5/16/2015, 3:35 PM
Lol @ Pasto..
We never seem to learn on this site
Heath Ledger
Ben Affleck
Grant Gustin
Ezra Miller (though I'm a bit skeptical about him too)
Jared Leto...
The list goes on
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