Stephen Amell will quickly be again on our small screens, as he’s starring as Ted Black in Fits L.A., the Fits spinoff that’s slightly greater than every week away from its premiere on the 2025 TV schedule. Nonetheless, it’s nonetheless protected to say that most individuals know Amell greatest from his time enjoying Oliver Queen, a.ok.a. Inexperienced Arrow, in Arrow and varied different Arrowverse sequence. Arrow introduced Amell to prominence, and whereas he’s grateful for the DC TV reveals, he additionally defined why engaged on these first few seasons had been difficult for him.
In an interview with Selection, Stephen Amell stated he felt like he’d been “shot out of a cannon” on the time he was solid as Oliver Queen and started engaged on Arrow. However wanting again, he didn’t take pleasure in engaged on the TV present 10 months out of the 12 months, and he described the stress he skilled on the primary a number of years on this integral CW sequence thusly:
The primary two or three years of ‘Arrow,’ I used to be gripping so tight. I used to be white-knuckling it. The hours had been lengthy. By the point we obtained to the fifth episode of the primary season, I’d labored extra on that present than I’d ever labored on something in my life. I used to be by no means a monster. I used to be by no means disrespectful — however I had a brief fuse. And also you study as you go.
The TV panorama was lots totally different when Arrow began airing on The CW. The present’s first six seasons consisted of 23 episodes but, and Season 7 was only one shorter, whereas the ultimate season solely had 10 episodes. That is the way in which issues work in broadcast TV normally, however today, nearly all of superhero TV reveals are both going direct to streaming or airing on one of many cable channels, so there aren’t almost as many episodes being ordered per season. Principally, if Arrow had been to enter manufacturing now, chances are high it’d solely have 8-10 episodes a season and both air on HBO first or go straight to the individuals who have a Max subscription.
Performing for a 23-episode TV season 12 months after 12 months can be difficult for any actor, however Arrow was additionally action-heavy, requiring Stephen Amell to carry out in these intensive sequences whereas carrying that tight costume and capturing arrows. I don’t blame him for feeling overwhelmed so early into making Season 1, and whereas I wouldn’t condone being disrespectful to anybody on set, I in all probability would even have a brief fuse at instances. With these lengthy hours and all that was being bodily and mentally requested of me, it will shortly grow to be draining.
Following Arrow concluding in 2020, Amell reprised Oliver Queen one final time for an episode of The Flash’s last season. Now he’s again on community TV for Fits L.A., which premieres Sunday, February 23 on NBC, with episodes turning into accessible to stream with a Peacock subscription afterwards. Whereas the spinoff was certainly difficult in several methods, a minimum of it’s not almost as bodily demanding of him and there are much less episodes to do within the season. In case you’re concerned with revisiting his work on Arrow, it may be streamed with a Netflix subscription.