Robbie Amell Talks THE FLASH & Firestorm’s Origin

Robbie Amell stars as Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm in The Flash. His cousin of course is Stephen Amell (TV's Green Arrow).

Recently Robbie sat down with Collider and talked about his role on The Flash and what we can expect from his Origin story. 

Here are some of the highlights I enjoyed, please be sure to check out the full interview on Collider's website

On the show's growing popularity

AMELL:  My cousin (Stephen Amell) is Arrow so I’ve seen the unbelievable ride he’s gone on and the amount of fan base that they’ve built.  When they did The Flash crossover episode — not this season on The Flash and Arrow – it kind of acted as the first episode of The Flash or the first time that they introduced Flash.  You could see that there was going to be something really special there.  Grant (Gustin) is so great and the cast they put together is so unbelievable.  And The Flash is just such an iconic character.  I feel like they’ve really done it right.  The visual effects are incredible.  They’re pulling all the stops on this.  I’m just really excited for all of them.  It kind of is what I expected it to be.  I expected it to be this big.  I would have been a lot more surprised if it wasn’t this big.

About future episodes featuring Firestorm

AMELL:  Well, you’ll see in February, I’ve got a couple episodes coming up.  You’re going to see my character and you’re going to be introduced to Victor Garber’s character, the other half of Firestorm.  Things are not going to be easy.  The last time you saw me, I flew away and told Danielle’s (Panabaker) character not to look for me again, and obviously she does if I come back.  The relationship there is really difficult.  You’ve got two minds inside one body fighting for control.  So, it’s going to be dangerous.  There are going to be repercussions.  But there’s some really cool stuff coming up.  It’s tough.  I can’t tell you too much.  (Laughs)

His thoughts on the cross-over episodes

AMELL:  They were actually the two best episodes of both shows that I have ever seen.  I thought that it was the best episode of Flash and the best episode of Arrow.  I just thought they were so great.  Flash added a little bit of comedy to Arrow and Arrow added a little darker grittiness to Flash.  I thought they worked unbelievably well together.  I know how hard the cast worked for those episodes because they’re already shooting such incredible hours on each show individually.  To go and wrap one show and go shoot the crossover with the other, it was well deserved.

Regarding a possible spin-off for Firestorm?

AMELL:  I don’t know.  I mean, they always talk about it.  But the tough thing is they’ve already got The Flash.  They’ve got Arrow.  They’re doing a Super Girl show on CBS.  All the people involved are very busy.  Who knows?

The Flash airs every Tuesday on the CW while Arrow airs on Wednesday

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