Though Inexperienced Arrow is historically paired with Black Canary romantically within the comics and different media, within the TV sequence Arrow, Emily Bett Richards’ Felicity Smoak stuffed that place. Initially launched in Season 1 character loosely based mostly on a minor Firestorm character. Felicity quickly turned one among Arrow’s hottest protagonists and the love of Stephen Amell’s Oliver Queen’s life. It’s been 5 years since Arrow concluded and Rickards final performed Felicity, and he or she gave an important cause for why she’s right down to reprise her breakout function sometime.
The actress is at present doing the press rounds for the 2025 film launch of Queen of the Ring, the place she performs skilled wrestler Mildred Burke. One in all Rickards’ stops has been Within You with Michael Rosenbaum, and through her dialog with the title host, she began off by expressing her willingness to revisit Felicity as follows:
In all probability, yeah. I wish to give Felicity her flowers, to be trustworthy.
Emily Bett Rickards stated this when Michael Rosenbaum requested she would conform to reprise Felicity Smoak if Arrow was revived as both a film or a six-episode restricted sequence. Following her recurring stint in Season 1, Rickards was upgraded to sequence common in Season 2, stayed in that place into Season 7, then was absent from Season 8 till the sequence finale. Whereas segments of the Arrow fanbase had been polarized in direction of Felicity (although that may be stated about different characters on the present), the actress would nonetheless be recreation for the chance to painting her in a barely extra constructive mild. As she defined:
I am so grateful for the fandom, however there are issues that I want that Felicity stood up for extra. And I believe that she did, simply off display. I really like Felicity. I’m not doing it for Arrow or actually the followers. I’d be doing it for Felicity. After which all people else will get it simply as a facet impact!
Within the ultimate minutes of Arrow’s sequence finale, Felicity Smoak walked by means of a portal to the afterlife created by Mar Novu in 2040 to reunite with Oliver Queen within the afterlife, identical to she’d finished within the alternate future proven within the pre-Disaster multiverse. Even assuming that is actually the top of the character’s story and never simply one other alternate future, there’s loads of time that may be explored between then and the place we left off along with her within the sequence finale. If they will discover a manner for Stephen Amell to return as Oliver, Felicity will likely be a chunk of cake.
As for the way she feels about Arrow total as of late, Emily Bett Rickards instructed Michael Rosenbaum that she nonetheless seems again on the present itself and Felicity Smoak fondly, although that’s to not say she didn’t have some criticism to share:
I am nonetheless so grateful for not solely Arrow, however for Felicity. I am actually pleased with who Felicity was, and I believe she received just a little misplaced within the later seasons, and I want I might have modified that for her, however I wasn’t a author.
Rosenbaum adopted up by asking if Rickards ever spoke her thoughts and shared with the Arrow writers about what she thought ought to occur to Felicity, to which she answered:
I did, however I believe I would be higher at it now. I believe I would be clearer now, so a part of it’s me not being as clear as I wished to be and feeling rushed. You recognize, I believe TV is quick and it is rushed, and it is an unimaginable process, I believe the showrunners are doing the very best they will if you’re doing an present that is 23 episodes a season.
After Arrow ended, Stephen Amell reprised Oliver for an episode of The Flash’s ultimate season, and David Ramsey reprised John Diggle in that sequence too, in addition to made visitor appearances in Supergirl, Batwoman and Superman & Lois. The Flash introduced the Arrowverse’s important continuity to an finish in 2023, Superman & Lois concluded the franchise as an entire final 12 months, and now nearly all of live-action upcoming DC TV exhibits are set both within the DC Universe or the shared universe spawned by The Batman. However perhaps there’ll come a day when DC is fascinated with revisiting Arrow, and if/when that occurs,
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