Stephen Amell And Grant Gustin Tease Their ARROW/THE FLASH Crossover Fight Scene
Arrow and The Flash will indeed feature a fight between the two heroes, and in this interview with the actors who play Oliver Queen and Barry Allen, they drop some new details about what we should expect from that and how the worlds of Starling and Central City collide...
We've obviously already seen Barry Allen and The Arrow share the small screen, but both shows will soon collide in an epic crossover which will see the two costumed heroes fighting side-by-side...and each other?! IGN managed to catch up with both actors recently and The Flash's Grant Gustin had this to say about how the interaction between the two characters. "I was talking about this yesterday with a friend; about how Oliver and Barry are so different and me and Stephen are just really different," the actor told the site. "We really get along outside of work and it’s been fun to Barry and Oliver kind of butting heads. We’re seeing them learn how to work together, but it’s really funny because they’re so different and the conversations they have are hilarious."
Stephen Amell meanwhile has his own thoughts on the crossover and dropped some hints about a huge moment which will apparently occur for his character when The Arrow meets The Flash. "It’s my idea," he teased. "I can’t tell you anything about it other than it relates to Central City. When I saw it in the Flash script, it ended up being really actually quite gratifying. First of all, when I say it was my idea, everyone has ideas all the time. It all goes into a melting pot. I just thought it would be a cool idea. I thought it would be a cool idea for The Flash. It ended up being a cool idea that we were able to utilize me for because we were doing a crossover with The Flash. So it was very professionally gratifying." Well, that's intriguing! What this moment could be is unknown, but the Amell did at least go into more detail about what he's most looking forward to in terms of both character interactions and shooting some of the big action scenes for both episodes. "It was me and Grant. I mean, episode 108 [of The Flash] is called "Flash vs. Arrow." Our titles aren’t just titles. You can bet based on the title that we fight. So, that whole dynamic -- which took place over three nights of shooting -- was a very new and different experience for me just from a technical standpoint, just because The Flash has so many effects. We do our fights [on Arrow]. On Monday, we are shooting the biggest fight we’ve ever done on Arrow in an incredibly practical way. I’m shooting 100% of it. I have no double. So that’s crazy and that’s us. This was them."
As we've already mentioned, the two heroes do come to blows at some point during the crossover, and the Arrow star continued by elaborating on the process of shooting these scenes as well as a tease about The Flash characters that Oliver Queen gets to meet during his trip to Central City. "I actually had to do a move [in the crossover] where I’m going to punch and I had to punch in slow motion and literally do slow motion faces and all that stuff. All the little things are… You can tell that the writers have been waiting for the opportunity to mix these worlds and mix certain characters for a long time. I personally really enjoyed working with Carlos [Valdes, who plays Cisco]. He’s just a very, very fun character and I think that one of the most interesting parts about the whole crossover is an observation that Oliver makes about Harrison Wells." Will we finally get some hints about Wells' true identity? What do you guys think about these comments?