Arrow I Told You I Didnt Wnat to See You on the Streets Again

Oliver Queen is "smiling a lot more" in Season half dozen of The CW's Arrow. Then, in plow, is serial star Stephen Amell.

Coming off what he recently ranked as his 2d-favorite season e'er (trailing only the freshman run), Amell likes what he is seeing thus far of Season six, which premieres Oct. 12 on a new dark — Thursdays at nine/8c, leading out of Supernatural.

Shortly after regaling the oversupply at the NY/NJ Heroes & Villains Fan est (of which he is a co-founder, and where during a panel Q&A he teased another pull a fast one on arrow and a spoiler-tastic new voiceover), Amell spoke with TVLine about the thrill of the (Adrian) Hunt, Flavour vi's newfound "maturity" and the new contraction awaiting Oliver and Felicity (if, yous know, his lady survived that explosive finale).

TVLINE | From the panel, it seems that you obviously hold Flavor 5 in high regard — and that was a fantastic season. I even had people at work who don't watch the show only tuned in for the finale saying, "That was a helluva finale."
I like that.

TVLINE | What about Season 5 practise you call up worked so well?
I remember that Season 5 began in earnest with a dinner that [Arrowpoesy executive producer] Greg Berlanti and I had only after the conclusion of Flavour 4. We've congenital out a really interesting universe on The CW, and I call up that there are things that we [on Arrow] exercise ameliorate than everybody else. Supergirl has a bigger budget for VFX, I recall, and it has aliens all the fourth dimension, and The Wink is super power-laden, and Legends travels through time. Nosotros are best when we stay within the limits of Star City.

TVLINE | You lot're on the streets.
Yeah, we're on the streets. I said, "You know, I recollect that in that location's a lot of things that we exercise well," and Greg goes, "I would agree," and I become, "Can we do those things?" Doing a evidence is similar a relationship, right? You make it. It'south hot and heavy. Things are going bully. You lot motility in together. So 1 partner turns to the other and says, "You lot know, you lot oasis't been to the gym in a bit…." That to me was the states. If we're going to do this show, let's really practise information technology. Permit's be morally ambiguous with the characters and arrive more iii-dimensional and put killing back on the table, let's move away from trying to exist like everyone else. Let's focus on being Arrow.

TVLINE | Coming off such a strong season and now that we're away from the flashback framework the show had been operating with, do y'all feel that Season vi is kind of pivotal? That there's something to evidence?
I don't think that there's anything to show. I wouldn't phone call having to do the flashbacks a hindrance by any means, but we did take to do them. And that's nine-ish minutes of screen fourth dimension per episode that can be devoted to…. At the risk of spoiling what happens, at the cease of Flavour v I don't think that nosotros've ever had a deeper roster of talent on the testify and a more capable group of actors to build out what's going on in Star City. And so I don't think nosotros really take anything to prove. I've been really impressed [with Season 6]; at that place's a really pivotal moment at the finish of our 2d episode and when I saw it I thought to myself, "OK, this is interesting. Are we going to follow through with information technology?" And we really do. Nosotros followed through with it. There's a maturity there that I'm very proud of.

TVLINE | One thing we do know about Season 6 is that William (played past Jack Moore) will be a part of Oliver's life. Is exploring that paternal side exciting for you as an role player, this new facet of a graphic symbol that you know so well, or was there somewhat of a concern that "in that location's a kid in the mix now"?
First of all, I'd exist a little more than worried if [Oliver's son] was like five or 6, but we're playing him equally like a sixth or seven grader. Jack has been super equal to the task and it'southward just been great. I remember when I read the [premiere] and information technology was merely a bunch of Oliver calling William "Sport." Similar, "Hey, Sport!" And I got [co-showrunner] Wendy Mericle on the phone and she goes, "I know what you're going to say. I know what y'all're going to say. Oliver's never going to call him Sport. You lot find what you're comfy calling him. It can be what you lot telephone call your [own] child, it can exist 'Buddy,' it doesn't matter."

Immediately subsequently that my starting time full solar day of work was a full day with Jack, and I was actually taken with it — and, you take this with a grain of table salt, patently the studio and the network were really taken with it, too. So I remember information technology's a actually interesting dynamic for Oliver to have to examine.

TVLINE | Having Manu Bennett back for the finale was so critical. It gave everything such weight and resonance. How would you characterize the Oliver/Slade relationship moving frontward? Frenemies? Something more?
I wouldn't say frenemies. I think that ane of the things we actually focus on is that Slade Wilson, throughout the course of the Flavour 2 flashbacks and what we saw present twenty-four hour period, was drugged. He was a graphic symbol that was under the influence of something. So now we are back, Oliver believes, to the version of Slade that nosotros met in Season 1.

TVLINE | Slade regained some clarity.
Yeah, and so became a comrade, and a confidant, and an ally of Oliver's. That existence said, there are certain things that you lot cannot united nations-see, and certain things that you cannot disengage. So I can think that he is honorable, and I tin can await to him for help, and I can maybe even trust him, just I tin can't actually forgive him. Which doesn't mean that I'1000 angry, merely again — certain things you can't un-encounter.

TVLINE | Same goes for Thea (Willa Holland) if she's alive. She has something to say about that.
Exactly right.

TVLINE | Kirk Acevedo, who has been bandage as a version of Richard Dragon, played such a sonuvabitch on Kingdom this past season. How different would yous say—
Haven't seen him and haven't worked with him however [as of this Sept. 17 interview]. It's really interesting this year. There are a number of big-time players that I accept yet to have a scene with.

TVLINE | Wendy seemed really excited about — and this is somebody you have worked with — Samanda Watson, the FBI Agent character.
Sydelle Noel (GLOW) has been really, actually, really fun to work with.

TVLINE | In what ways is she a unique adversary for Oliver? I mean, people have tried to connect the dots before.
Oliver can't so much every bit open up his oral cavity to say boo without her bulls–t detector going off. She is thoroughly and utterly convinced of exactly what he is, and the ironic and funny affair about that is, of course, she's precisely right.

TVLINE | I said to Wendy that Samanda sounds like "the Tommy Lee Jones to your Richard Kimble," and she was like, "That's exactly it."
Yeah. Yeah. I saw [The Fugitive] in the theater, and if we can create that dynamic…The only problem is I'1000 not actually innocent! I'm totally guilty, simply yeah, she is dogging me — and non simply me. The interesting thing about her graphic symbol is she doesn't just put one piece together. She puts alllll the pieces together.

TVLINE | What does Oliver see and experience when he looks at Blackness Siren (returning series regular Katie Cassidy), and vice versa?
Oliver is, ironically, the most hopeful one despite the fact that she allied herself with Adrian Chase — who had offered to suspension her out of prison, so I understand where she's coming from. But the fact is he'southward sort of hopeful, "If there's a bit of Laurel in in that location, I want to detect it." He'southward more empathetic to the struggles for [Quentin] Lance, you know, and anyone that has a history with Laurel. He knows that [Blackness Siren] is not a good person necessarily, just he hopeful that there'south something in there.

TVLINE | Meanwhile, Oliver to her is zilch.
Nothing.

TVLINE | The team actually took its lumps in Season 5. Emerging from the Adrian Hunt crucible, is there a kind of a restored confidence?
At that place is with Oliver. I mean, I bristle at the notion that of a sudden he's, like, smiley and happy-go-lucky. But I call up that there'south a way to fill Oliver with a lilliputian more contentment without domesticating him in the way that nosotros did a fleck in Season 4. With a lot of the means that he approaches things now, he just seems a lot more comfortable in his ain peel.

You know, the most transformative moment in my eyes, for Oliver, was before everything happened. He had the opportunity to impale Chase and he simply says, "That's who I was. That's non who I am anymore." And if the underlying issue actually was blaming himself for his male parent's death and he has forgiven himself, he has absolved himself of that, and that's led to a lot of brighter days for me this year.

TVLINE | In a scenario where Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) did survive the Lian Yu explosion, are in that location new places for her and Oliver to go to in their relationship that we haven't seen in the beginning five seasons?
Well yeah, of course, because Oliver's a package deal at present. It's Oliver and William, correct? So yeah, there are definitely places where we can take it.

TVLINE | And lastly, for this year's crossover how do we ane-upwards aliens?
The thing that I will tell you about the crossover is that for the very first time…. Y'all know, when we offset did them it was merely Arrow and Flash, it was kind of elementary. And even when we did them last year, it was like, "Nosotros're doing an episode of Supergirl, and and then an episode of Flash, and and then an episode of Arrow, and then an episode of Legends." This twelvemonth information technology is a four-hour movie. The annotation that I got when I was speaking with 1 of our producers is, "When you tune in, aside from the opening graphic, stylistically, if you didn't know what order the shows were in, y'all shouldn't exist able to tell." Like, it's just ane through line.

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