Hey, everybody! .:: Translation and subtitles ::. Saeed :: SKA192 :: vampire9253@yahoo.com
Welcome to PaleyFest!
All right.
Please welcome to the stage the team behind Arrow.
Greg Berlanti, executive producer!
Please welcome
Malcolm Merlyn himself, Mr. John Barrowman.
The lovely Thea Queen, Willa Holland.
So foxy!
Roy Harper aka Arsenal, Colton Haynes!
The baddest hacker in the world,
- Felicity Smoak, Emily Bett Rickards.
- Hey! - I love you! Me too!
Here comes the Arrow, Mr. Stephen Amell.
The newly minted Black Canary, Laurel Lance,
Katie Cassidy!
And Papa Lance as well,
Paul Blackthorne!
- Hi, darling. - Hi.
"The Dig," John Diggle, Mr. David Ramsey.
Executive producer
Andrew Kreisberg.
And executive producer Marc Guggenheim.
A lot of answers,
it's going to be an amazing second half of Season 3.
And, um, let's just get right into it.
This is for Greg, Andrew and Marc.
I want to know how important was it
for all of you,
both in watching the series
and also in developing the arc for the characters
where we are now to stay married to comic book lore,
the history of these characters,
and how important was it
for your Arrow Universe
to develop its own style and its own sensibility?
Well, I mean, one of the fortunate things about Green Arrow
is that it doesn't have as, sort of, well known,
you know, a canon,
as something like Superman or Batman,
and I think that let us, you know, have more leeway
to, sort of, craft the stories that we wanted to tell.
And we were certainly influenced by the comics,
you know, especially Green Arrow: Year One,
um, and The Longbow Hunters,
which are sort of the two, you know, big seminal books.
But there are other things, you know, there are other runs,
Crawling Through the Wreckage, and the Road to Jericho,
which we've also borrowed from,
that, you know, people probably know.
But, um, you know, I mean, there are, you know...
We always say, "If it helps us, great.
"And if it doesn't, it doesn't." And we move on.
And we're always trying to, uh,
you know... I would say it's like,
this show has to work for me and my wife,
-and my wife could give a crap about comic books. - Right.
And she just takes it all, you know, at face value
and, you know, so, for a lot of the fans,
you know, there are the people who read comic books
who are expecting something
and we have to make the show exciting and interesting for them
that they're not just being spoon-fed stuff that they've already read.
So it's always up to us to constantly, you know,
come up with surprises and changes
- and riffs on the canon. - Mmm-hmm.
So this has been, obviously,
I think, a darker season for all the characters,
especially for Arrow, for the Arrow,
and even the flashback scenes,
which used to be a little bit on the lighter side,
used to kind of balance the show comedically,
have gotten pretty dark.
Uh, how has that been for you as an actor,
playing, essentially, every moment of the show really intensely?
- Stephen. - Oh, boy.
Um, I mean, we always knew that
the flashbacks would have to eventually
-take Oliver to the place where we find him... - Mmm-hmm.
In the Pilot and...
So, you know, they were relatively benign
in the first year, if you call blowing up
- a camp full of soldiers benign.
And, uh...
And then we got to really tie in the Slade Wilson story
with their relationship,
first solidifying and then deteriorating on the island
and how that affected their confrontation at the present day,
and now we got to get away from the island.
But getting away from the island,
it's had to get darker every year
- and, uh, it's gonna get worse before it gets better. Mmm-hmm.
Hurray!
You know, obviously, the last episode we saw,
uh, Ra's al Ghul was asking Oliver
to become the next Ra's al Ghul.
And it was a pretty shocking request
'cause it would essentially completely neutralize
the League of Assassins as a threat.
But I want to know what that would do,
first of all, to Oliver,
and what that would do to his team.
The whole idea of
Ra's al Ghul being offered to Oliver,
if you know Ra's al Ghul and you know his tactics
and you saw what Malcolm said in the preview,
which is that there's a legend that the man who survives the sword of Ra's al Ghul
will become Ra's al Ghul.
When you do all that math, you realize
that it's an offer in name only.
- It's not really an offer. - Mmm-hmm.
- It's a demand. - Right.
And if Oliver says, "No,"
then there are gonna be incredibly dire consequences,
and that seems like
it has been the big thrust of the last third of our season.
John, what would that... Well, you know,
- so tell us what you can about what that's gonna do...
to your relationship with Oliver.
Well, right now, where they are, uh,
where it is on television,
the fact that Oliver is protecting
Malcolm when he says in the...
You know... I as John and Malcolm
- call it their lair, you know.
And, uh, he's... They're all...
And I step in from behind the trash can like I always do.
Around the corner as "Oh, there he is!"
You know, Oliver just looks like,
"Oh, that's just, that's...
"That's John, anyway, but, you know."
But, you know, you've got
someone like, uh, Felicity and, uh, Diggle
who look at me and just like...
With total hatred in their eyes and...
Um...
At least, that's the way I'm interpreting it.
Yeah. But what it does...
Does it take... If that were to happen...
You know, what Stephen has just said, if that
scenario, would it wipe everything out for Malcolm?
You know, does he become
somebody who is free of everything?
And could he start again?
Where does that put him?
I've always said that Malcolm's biggest regret
is if he could go back and change
after he found out that he murdered the wrong man,
if he could change that, his path would be very different.
And if something like this were to go on and happen,
would that change his path again?
Would he grab it or would he turn on it?
Well, this is his opportunity.
By the way, you guys need way better security
in that basement, 'cause he's always just walking in.
I don't know...
How about a passcode or something like that?
- Merlyn owns the security company. Ah...
I just haven't told him that.
He just waves his magic wand, he's a magician.
I forgot about that.
All right. So...
Emily, um, Felicity hasn't just been the...
Hasn't just been the brain of Team Arrow this year,
she's very much been the heart of Team Arrow
- and... - Lots of organs.
- Yes. All... It's liver next, I'm sure of it, Season 4. - Oh!
Spleen.
Um, and this season
really saw Felicity try to pull Oliver
out of this, kind of, thickening shell
he's been putting himself inside.
Especially, after Sara dies,
he kind of closes down.
But now...
People who haven't watched the show, too bad for you.
She's essentially turned her back on him emotionally.
She's like, "I'm done." So...
What does that mean for Felicity
and what does that mean for Team Arrow?
Well, it definitely shows, sort of,
how she's been changing over the past two seasons
by being like, "Okay, I'll help you decode
"this bullet-shot computer." and now it's like, "Hell, no.
"I don't want to deal with somebody
"who's gonna, you know, only give half of your emotions,
"as a love interest, as that," but they are still...
I mean, she still cares deeply for him
and is concerned about him, you know, going out into the world.
He's not invincible, he's not immortal...
You're not. Um...
Ah...
I don't care what you think.
You aren't immortal.
Um...
But she, you know, she needs the time to...
To go and explore other options and, sort of,
she needs that nourishment as well,
that nourishment and support and love
and Oliver does want that for her.
- Let's all be adults. - I just...
Still together.
We'll talk about explosions in a minute. Cool it.
I... Yeah.
That was adorable. - when you ask relationship questions on panels
because then him or Grant, or someone just goes,
"What do you mean I'm not a man?"
Or, "What do you mean I'm not strong enough?"
And I just, I don't know, I go away.
I'm somewhere else.
But a lot of this show, a lot of the feel
behind Oliver's journey and most of the characters' journeys
has been about loss.
Obviously, Oliver's lost a lot,
but Katie, your character has lost a lot, as well.
And I wonder now, you're out on the frontlines
fighting alongside Arrow,
did you know that this evolution
was coming for you, both physically and emotionally,
and how fun has this been for you,
transforming from
mild-mannered lawyer?
Tell us!
Well, it's funny you mentioned Season 3 being a lot darker
for everyone, and I have to say
yes, definitely, at the beginning for Laurel,
but I have to... I think that Season 3
has been a little bit easier on me as an actor,
just because Season 2, emotionally, you know,
I felt like I was breaking down
and we saw Laurel just, sort of, down spiral
and then come back out on top
and at the beginning of Season 3,
you know, losing her sister,
and going through that, you know,
grieving and mourning...
She's, she had done it, but she...
I don't know, I feel like she comes out...
She comes out on top almost all over again and in a different way.
And I think, physically, you know, I was talking to Marc,
between Season 2 and 3,
it was really important for us to sell physically, you know,
that change, so that we could believe it
and that when...
Once she did actually,
- That didn't necessarily mean that she was good. Uh... Mmm-hmm.
You know, she was out there and she was fighting
with her heart
and she had the drive and she has the mentality of a fighter
and I think that, you know, as an actor,
I mean, it's been amazing.
This is everything that I have ever wanted
and could ask for.
- It took a couple of years, but I definitely think that...
It was, um,
you know, it was the right way to go
and it was as realistic and legitimate as possible.
Can I just add to that? At least, you didn't have to cry for nine months.
That's what I mean.
Season 3 was a little lighter.
Any time you saw Katie in Season 2,
- she's crying, she's crying, she's crying.
- Another crying scene. She's really good at crying.
She's a good crier.
Oh, I always would feel bad for you guys.
I thought you guys would be, like, maybe as actors, friends...
What's wrong with her? She's always crying.
- "Don't talk to Katie. Leave her alone."
But, uh, yeah.
It's, uh, it's been awesome to watch.
Um, Willa, a big part of the season has been
Thea evolving as a fighter, coming into her own
and then finding out that Malcolm Merlyn
is not at all who he claims to be.
Um, and has been...
Has been using Thea for her own purposes.
How is that...
How is that gonna...
How is that gonna affect your emotional arc?
Because you find out that your dad isn't who he claimed to be
and your brother is not who he claimed to be.
In the last three seasons, Thea has been lied to a few times.
Dude! Seriously...
- She's had a few issues... You're not the only one, darling.
Oh, yeah, no. I think everyone's been lied to.
It's, kind of, like a big thing, we've all...
Not trustworthy, pretty people on the show.
You cannot trust a word that comes out of our mouths.
Um, but right now, she's definitely on this...
For the first six months of the season,
I feel like she was on this very upwards trajectory,
she was kicking ass, getting along with Malcolm.
There was a revolutionary,
like, relationship between her and Oliver,
and now
after finding out that her, you know, dad
drugged her and was like,
"Hey, here's an arrow and a bow.
"And like, I don't know, sling it back and, like, shoot it
"into an old family friend."
He'll be like, "No, no, no. You're drugged. You don't know what's happening. It's fine."
When you put it like that...
It's a little bit much.
So, I don't see her
coming back from that lightly.
I don't see that going over well
with their relationship, definitely...
- It's not, it's not going to be a good Sunday dinner. - I mean...
It's going to be an awkward...
Next few episodes I feel are going to be
a little awkward between us.
Every time he comes into the room, I might just kill him.
Well, I mean, speaking of killing people
you've developed, Thea's developed
her own set of fighting skills.
Is she going to join Team Arrow
now that she knows what's going on?
That's a question to point towards the end of this panel.
We absolutely love to spoil stuff on the show, if you've noticed.
Yeah. We love to just tell you
what's going to happen.
I'm afraid to do this.
I think, uh, yeah,
we're gonna take the Fifth on that.
- Okay. - But that was good, though.
You should definitely always, spoilers send our way.
I just point them, literally, directly down to you.
But what I can say was that
in this trajectory that she's gone on,
she has been kicking ass
and she's definitely got to the point
where she could potentially kill somebody.
But this is a big turning point,
finding out that she actually has done it
under the influence of something
she was not aware of.
It's a major turning point for her
because I don't think before,
during all this training,
that she even fathomed the idea
of actually going through with killing someone.
It was just being able to protect herself
and had nothing to do with kicking other people's asses
and taking their names or whatever.
Now, it's come to a point where it's like,
"Okay, what is gonna happen?
"How is she gonna deal with this?"
It's a huge, kind of, weight on her shoulders
and is adding more layers to her ongoing onion.
Just an infinite onion. - Always pulling.
Infinite onion.
Just lie, lie, truth, it's gone.
Lie, lie.
Well, let's talk about that
because other than loss, I think, the other ongoing theme
with Arrow has been the theme of secrets
and lies and how they can both
protect the people that you love
and also deeply, deeply injure them.
And at this point everybody knows
who Oliver is, almost everybody on the show.
Poor Paul. Except the detective.
What are you gonna do?
What're they all talking about?
"Hey, guys." "Shh, shh, here he comes."
Looks like a nice guy.
So, um...
Paul, this has been a really emotional season for you.
Well, at first, you didn't know what was going on
and then...
And then Katie
got her revenge by making you have to break down
-and fall to the floor. - I'm so sorry. That was really...
- Sorry. I still feel bad to this day. - Why didn't you just tell me?
- Um, yeah. - Oh, yeah, no.
- Was that a question then? - Well, it was going to be.
I'll just be like, "Yes."
I hadn't gotten to it yet.
But, I mean, inherent, you know, or buried in the scene
where you find out that Sara's dead
is that you also find out that your daughter's been lying to you.
Yeah. It's like, you know, I find out for sure this time
that I really have lost one daughter
and at the same time I'm realizing
I'm losing the trust of another.
And, um, I think that was part of that scene,
for me, was that it wasn't just about the grief.
I mean, obviously, it was gonna be feeling,
but also the horror
about how he's gonna react to it,
given how he reacted to it in the past.
Descended into alcoholism,
ended up in divorce and goodness knows what.
So, the fact that he's now got to get through this
without a wife,
and without his other rock, his daughter,
this time, 'cause that trust is gone,
you know, just fills him with absolute dread and awe.
But, um, he's a bigger man these days
so I feel that in his being, you know,
he's just like, "You know what? I am gonna get through this.
"It's gonna be tough.
"I clearly don't have any, any friends whatsoever
"in Starling City,
"so I decided..."
- Totally wrong. - "I decided to go and visit
"Detective West in Flash
"'cause he seems like a nice guy.
"And we hung out, we had coffee,
"the coffee kind of tasted weird,
"but, you know...
"But, um, you know,
"he seems like a nice guy
"I want to go and hang with him for a while."
So, David, Diggle is a daddy.
Yeah.
Daddy Diggle.
He's about to be a husband.
There's about to be Ms. Diggle.
Sounded dirtier than I intended.
It's always dirty, Aisha. Always.
It's only a matter of time for me, David.
Um, you know, it's, it's...
that it's kept Diggle a little bit more conservative, potentially, this season.
He, maybe, hasn't been out in the field much
thinking about his family, his wife and his...
And his future wife and his daughter.
But now you are way far away from home
and absolutely in peril,
what does this mean
for Diggle's relationship with his family
that you've put yourself back out in harm's way?
Diggle doesn't have any...
There's no reconciliation in terms of Diggle's...
Diggle being a father, and a husband
and a crime fighter, right?
So, the fact that he's in peril
with his partner, Oliver Queen,
obviously, there's...
As a man, as a soldier, he thinks about his family,
but that's what he signed up for.
And I think that's the way Diggle sees it.
I don't think there's...
The struggles that Oliver has
in terms of his connection
and the stuff that he goes through,
I think that... I think that Diggle's kind of
reconciled much of that.
He can... He can have a family
and a wife and a child.
And also fight crime at night.
Or in the daytime.
Or anytime. And, um...
So pushing away Felicity that Oliver does,
pushing away his friends that Oliver does
in order to protect his friends from who he is,
that struggle that Oliver has, Diggle doesn't have.
He's reconciled his island.
Mmm!
- You like that? - That was nice.
What a guy. What a thoughtful man.
And, scene.
Thank you, Aisha, very much.
Colton, your character and Thea's...
And Thea
have, you know, you're not really in a relationship anymore,
but you seem to be confiding in each other
a lot, relying on each other a lot.
She doesn't, or she hasn't known your identity.
How is it going to change now that she knows about Team Arrow?
Um...
You know, we've had a few really great scenes
that we just filmed that, um...
You know, they're friends over anything.
I think that she still has trust issues,
obviously, like we said earlier, everyone lies to you. I don't know why.
- Um... - Even you did.
- Come on, man. What the hell? - But, um, you know...
But I think, as you guys saw in the little teaser,
there's a little more, kind of, spark coming.
We'll see.
Wow!
I hope one of you guys got that, got that on camera.
I don't know why I just did that.
It's because today I got asked what my favorite emoji was
and I said it was the lick thing
and I was like, "Now it's been on my mind."
Well, now it's online. So...
Sorry, guys.
You know, I think there's always gonna be a spark between them, you know,
and it's, um, whether or not, uh,
they decide to, um...
Lick each others' faces?
You've lost your way, haven't you?
Yeah, now, I'm just thinking about sex.
- So, yeah. That was the whole world.
They will, you know, they will...
They will always be in each other's lives.
You can't get rid of me.
Oh, man!
- That's my girl. - John...
Uh-huh.
See? I not only taught her how to fight.
I was gonna say,
"Looks like Willa's been spending too much time with John."
- Just a wee bit. - It's true, though.
- So, John? - Yeah.
Your character's kind of a dick.
It's not the first time I've been called that.
But what's interesting about this last season
is, uh, you know, end of Season 2
and end of Season 3 is that
we've seen him express what has seemed to be,
at least on its face...
- Yeah. - real, genuine affection for Thea.
And it is.
It is genuine affection for her.
- He is, the one thing that, uh... Oh...
You show it weird.
- What? - You show it weird.
I show it weird. Yeah, that's the way he does.
- Yeah. - He's a bit of a weirdo.
But like everybody else this season
everybody's trying to find out who they are,
what their, what their role is in the...
In this world, right?
And Malcolm I see as one of the things that,
I said it a while ago,
he's using emotion this time.
He acted upon emotion before and it got him into trouble.
This time he's trying to figure the emotion out.
So he's trying to do what he thinks
is the right thing to do,
- beat your daughter to make her a good fighter...
- Ow. - In his world, that's what he has to do
to train her.
But he definitely, definitely feels an affection
and a love for Thea.
And he loves her as a daughter.
As he has this, kind of, strange thing for, um...
With Oliver, he's always seen...
I feel this, this is the fan talking,
John, but I know that these guys
have heard me say this before.
Malcolm actually would much rather have had Oliver as a son
than he would have Tommy.
All right, all right!
Tommy is dead.
Wait a minute, Tommy's dead!
Well, you killed him.
- I know I killed him, but... - You killed him.
Wait a minute! I might regret it.
Just a little bit.
Did you kill him so you could get him as your son?
No! I got you as a daughter instead.
It's... All was wonderful.
No, but that's the kind of...
The kind of thing that
even when he looks at both of them together, you know,
that's why there's that dilemma
of if he would do something bad to Oliver now
because he has that, you know, within him...
It's the same with Thea. He...
All I can say is, without giving anything away,
but you just want to watch what's coming up.
He loves her.
He really, really loves her.
Aw, that's sweet.
You have a strange way of showing it, buddy.
Doesn't love Tommy, though. Doesn't love Tommy.
Just as a point, though.
He has a strange way of showing his affection.
He loves Starling City.
I don't think that he ever did not like Starling City,
and his way to show how much he cared about it
- was killing 500 people. - I am so misunderstood!
He doesn't really know how to show affection.
He kills because he cares.
- It's bad. That was several years ago. Get over it.
I'm sorry. It's hard, man.
So, um, Stephen... It just like, pops up.
Of all of the people in Oliver's world,
Oliver has suffered the most loss of anybody.
Just ongoing death after death.
His mother, Tommy, Sara, Shado...
- I'm sure a dog died at some point.
I didn't kill it.
- He killed it. - I'm sure you did.
Um, and, he's been keeping all this inside.
In fact, at one point, you say on the show,
"If I grieve, nobody else gets to."
And then you just got stabbed and almost died.
So, I'm... At some point, I'm imagining,
maybe you're gonna need, like, a hug?
Uh... Might be some tears?
Is at any point any of this emotion gonna come out of Oliver?
That's the really cool thing about
what Ra's has put on the table.
It really gives Oliver an opportunity to examine, in totality,
what he has been able to accomplish
in the two-and-a-half years that he's been back in Starling City.
And his opinion of what they've done
or at least of his work is not very high.
So, that makes the idea of
being the person that commands The League of Assassins
in any way that he sees fit,
makes it really appealing.
But ultimately, the game that Ra's plays with Oliver
throughout the course of the remainder of our episodes this year,
really, actually does focus him...
Force him to really look within himself.
And, you know, we see a very different Oliver.
A more introspective, a more vulnerable,
and in a lot of ways
defeated version of the character
as we move towards the last portion of our episodes.
Which is fun, because, again, you can only shut people out for so long...
It's been almost three seasons.
Been like 70 episodes of, "Don't talk to me."
And, uh, you know,
you can...
You can only stare broodingly out a window so long.
How long? I think you got more it in you.
Yeah, I guess that means you got more in you.
All right, I have a question here from the Paley app, uh,
Bruna Luisa Ortega asks,
"Oliver has Slade and Diggle has H.I.V.E.
"Will Felicity get her own personal nemesis on Arrow?"
- On Flash. She actually gets a nemesis on Flash.
Uh-huh. Her name is also Emily, which is great.
Yes, Emily Kinney from The Walking Dead.
So, she and Felicity go computer-to-computer.
Yeah, we have a tech-off. It's pretty cool.
A "tech-off."
It's almost like a dance party
but on the computer with your fingers.
Super, super hardcore tech-off.
- What was that? - Super, super, hardcore tech-off.
- Super hardcore. - It's like, epic.
Like, you guys saw Step Up?
Tech-off!
- Or Save the Last Dance? - Step up, tech-off.
- Yeah, going back... I think, what am I doing?
I'm just enjoying you guys...
You want to stop me?
Here it is...
Let's just talk quickly about parallel universes.
Now, we've seen all these Flash-Arrow crossovers, and we know more are coming.
We've seen the evolution of Atom
and lot of rumors about a new spin-off featuring
some of the characters that were launched both on Arrow and The Flash,
so, my question is, are there are gonna be
two Black Canaries in the DC Universe,
and is one of them gonna be Reverse Canary?
- Wow! - Wow.
- That's a good question. - Answer her.
- Look, everyone's... - Thank you!
We would love for you to come on our show.
Well, I got to be Black Canary.
Well played. Well played.
I do what I can. I think we're gonna go to fan questions now.
The last year has been amazing.
I mean, like, who doesn't want actually to have a job that forces them to work out
and actually get healthy in their life.
So that's a huge plus. Thanks, guys.
Um...
But aesthetically it's been amazing getting to
go through all these layers through Thea
and actually, kind of, show her strength
and the fact that she's not just a sitting wet blanket
like you very well put. To be honest, it's...
She was sitting there, just like,
not doing anything, for a little while.
But now, she's kicking so much ass.
I think that if there's going to be a moment where,
you know, Oliver finally decides to, uh,
let go, so to speak,
and, you know, get into the land of the living,
that the object of his affection would most likely be Felicity.
But, um...
- She's spoken for... - Right?
- is what it is. - Oh, boo!
I like that Felicity has Laurel to a certain extent
and their relationship is growing.
- I like the relationship friendship. - I like this. This is good.
Sister love.
- You want to sit here? - Maybe you should sit here and we should...
- I could... - Guys, there's a system.
So regulated.
I know. I mean...
I'm sure there must be some romance in the future for Malcolm.
Thank you for not spoiling the relationship between Malcolm and Felicity's mom.
Kidding! Kidding!
- What? - Kidding!
- What? - That would be awesome!
That would be so awesome!
Excuse me, excuse me. Lance hasn't been laid in seven years...
John Barrowman can help that out, not Malcolm Merlyn.
I don't wanna talk to John Barrowman about that.
Let it happen.
Give me a round for the Arrow cast
and the executive producers. You guys were incredible!
Thank you so much for watching!
Bye!
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