Yes, to some degree I was pointed in that direction, but I think until they figure out how they want to sort that out in future episodes, they weren’t too worried about that.
Were you given any insight into how the existence of The Flash has shaped Thawne as a character and his motivations? I think they’re still sorting some of that, about how they want to look at him in the future, so I just got the bare bones of “this is where he came from, this is where he has to get back to, this is what he has to do to do it.” So I chose to focus on that this season. They have a lot of possibilities - if you’re just going from The Flash’s own history as a storyline, you have a lot of different possibilities you can choose from in terms of how you want to develop Eobard Thawne or Professor Zoom or whatever you want to call him. How much have you been told about Eobard Thawne’s future within the show - in terms of the time he came from?īare bones. But beyond that there wasn’t a whole lot of discussion, it was just “show up and have fun.” I tried to take a little flavor from that and put it into what I was doing because he was doing it so well. We didn’t talk too much he told me a little bit about it, but once I had been told that that was what he’d been doing all season, I went back and I looked at a few episodes, watched his behavior - how he behaved in public versus how he behaved in private when he was talking to Gideon. We mostly talked about how I was going to pronounce his name.
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Obviously, Tom technically originated the role of Thawne-as-Wells, so did you guys have any discussions during this episode about how to play him? I’m especially interested to see what it does for Tom and his character on the show - I think it presents a delicious conundrum for fans and for the writers themselves on how they’re going to handle it. It was definitely pitched as something that they would like to develop in some way, beyond this year even, possibly. He’ll definitely be back - I’ll be back this season. Was it pitched as a one off appearance or with a potential to return? Having worked with Andrew and Greg before, and Tom, everything about the opportunity excited me, so it was an easy sell on their part.
I knew this would be a mindblowing revelation for people. I’d been watching the show so once I knew that, I was on board. I wasn’t really well-versed in the Flash mythology, so they basically laid out who the character was, and then they told me that it’s basically who Tom has been the entire season. How did the producers describe the role to you? So I had partners in my self-contained torture. No, I had worked with Andrew Kreisberg before, and I got an offer for the role and I spoke with him and he just said, “we want you to do this, we’re excited for you to do this, but you can’t tell anybody.” I did tell my family, my children, because my boys love the show - so they were excited about it, and then I forbid them from telling anybody else. Well, it was offered to me back in December of 2014, and I’ve been hermetically sealed in a vault in the ground since then. Just how shrouded in secrecy was this guest appearance? To dissect the unexpected twists of “Tricksters,” Variety spoke to Letscher about portraying the real Eobard Thawne and what his arrival means for “The Flash” as it hurtles towards its freshman finale. Martin) revealed Barry’s secret identity as The Flash to Eddie Thawne (Rick Cosnett), Joe’s partner on the force, so that the trio could begin investigating who “Harrison Wells” really is, after Barry became convinced that his STAR Labs mentor was indeed the Reverse Flash. Elsewhere in the hour, Barry and Detective Joe West (Jesse L.
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