Katherine McNamara on ‘Arrow’ Season 8. Photo: Warner Bros.
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- Actress katherine mcnamara discusses her role in ‘Arrow’ season 8 and ‘cris on infinite earths’
- Mcnamara also talked about the failed pilot for ‘green arrow and the canaries’ and why it was not picked up for series
- Will we ever find out who Abducted william Clayton? And what other storylines would have been explred in the spinoff?
- And if she would want to reprise her role in james gunn’s dc universe
After eight successful seasons and launching the ‘arrowverse’ series of tv shows, the flagip Dc Comics Series’Arrow‘Ended in 2020 after the very successful crossover event’ Crisis on Infinite Earths’.
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Through a complicated time traveling plotline, Oliver Queen’s (Stephen Amell) Adult Daughter Mia Smoak Played By Actress Katherine Mcnamara Was introduced in ‘Arrow’s Final Season and Participated in’ Crisis’. With the show ending, the idea was to spinoff mcnamara’s character with her own series entitled ‘Green arrow and the canaries’, which would have seen mia take on her Father’s Super Mantle AlongSide Katie cassidy and Juliana haarkavyReprising their roles from ‘arrow’.
In Fact, The Penultimate Episode of the Final Season of ‘Arrow’ was a backdoor pilot to ‘green arrow and the canaries’, entitled ‘Livin’ in the future ‘, which TOOOK PLACE TWENTY YEARS AAFTERS AFTETERE OROWE’. The episode features a future timeline where mia neveer batcomes the green arrow, but after a time displaced Dinah Drake (Harkavy) Restors Restors Mia’s Memories of the other time, she takes on her face Superhero Identity to Stop a New Deathstroke, Who may or may not be her fiancé, John Diggle JR. ,Charlie barnettThe Episode Ends on a Cliffhanger, where Mia’s Brother, William Clayton (Ben lewis), is mysteriously abducted.
However, the series was ultimately not picked up because of covid, or Possibly James GunnTaking over dc studios And effectively ending the ‘arrowverse’ and any dc tv show not connected to his future-plans. While Mcnamara did reprise her role as mia briefly in the final season of ‘The flash‘, She was still looking for her brother, and ultimately no satisfying conclusion to that storyline was given.
Katherine Mcnamara in ‘High Ground’. Photo: Republic pictures.
Moviefone Recently had the pleasure of spending with actress katherine mcnamara about her work on ‘High ground‘Which was director by’ arrow ‘alum James Bamford And will be available to buy on digital beginning March 18th.
In addition to ‘high ground’, we also spoke to mcnamara about joining the final season of ‘arrow’, her involvement in the groundbreaking ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ Crossover, WHEYAN ARORW and the Canaries’ did not go to series, what that show’s story should have been, reprising her role in the final season of ‘the flash’, and if she would want to return to the Returns to the Returns.
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Joining the ‘Arrowverse’
(L to r) katherine mcnamara and stephen ameall on ‘Arrow’ season 8. Photo: Warner Bros.
To begin with, mcnamara discussed what it was like to join ‘Arrow’ for the final season and be a part of the ‘Arrowverse’ of tv shows.
“I’d obvious sean how beloved Oliver and felicity as individual characters were, but also as a couple. When I auditioned, I have no idea that that is the character I was there. after I was cast. Suddenly, I Got This News that I was the Human Product of Oliver and Felicity, and I’m Going, “Oh, I have big shoes to fil. All right, let’s see. Emily Bett Rickards Did such incredible work on that show and had seven seasons at that point of rich character work. “
Mcnamara also talked about her research and approach to playing the role.
“I was watched the whole series, and I was alive to kind of cherry pick different qualities, good and bad of their characters, and mush them together to create mia. Propensity to have a short temperature, but also her mother’s strategy, and being able to blend there things together to create this new character that Writers Gave Such A Beautiful, Twisted, Deeep Story to. Coldn’t have asked for Anything More. “
Making ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’
‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’. Photo: Warner Bros.
The ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ event featured the first-time fans Got a Glimpse of Mia in Her Green Arrow Uniform, and McNamara Talked About That Process and Shooting the crossover.
“I mean, that crossover episode series, I was pinking myself the entrance time. It was the first time I get to wear my super suit, which we have spen money and months designing. Thorpe, and Ocean Drive Leather who made all the suits for all the shows, by the way, they’re insanely talented, those follows over there. What is this thing called euro jersey. Except for me, but it meant so much that they had put that level of detail and thought into crafting her suit. of differential mia. But, even in just being a legacy of television was a huge honor. “
What Happy to ‘Green Arrow and the Canaries’?
(L to r) Juliana Harkavy, Katherine McNamara and Katie Cassidy on ‘Arrow’ Season 8. Photo: Warner Bros.
Mcnamara also discusced making the ‘Green Arrow and the Canaries’ Backdoor Pilot Episode that aired Before the Finale of ‘Arrow’.
“We did a pilot for a spinoff, and I would’ve loved to continue that had the pandemic not got into Suit on Again, as it was. “
We followed up to ask her if the pandemic was the entrance reason that the proposed series was not picked up, or if it may have also also had to do with james gunn’s takeover of DC Studios.
“As far as I know, that’s what i heard. But who knows in the end? of the ‘arrowverse’. But maybe there’s a world somehere.
Finding closure on ‘the flash’
(L to r) Brandon Routh, Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Chyler Leigh, Katherine McNamara,
Cress williams, and javicia leslie in season 9 of ‘the flash’. Photo: Warner Bros.
Mcnamara did reprise her role in the final season of ‘the flash’, but while william’s abduction was mentioned, no true conclusion to that storyline was given. We are asked the actress if she is felt like that Episode of ‘Flash’ Gave Her and Her Character Closure.
“A little bit. But I feel like at this point, it’s eite (willam’s) Superhero or Super Villain Origin Story, and I want to see that come to fruition in some universe somes
What was the storyline going to be on ‘Green Arrow and the Canaries’?
Katherine McNamara on ‘Arrow’ Season 8. Photo: Warner Bros.
We followed up by assking the actress if she was always the plot for the first season of ‘green arrow and the canaries’.
“I do know some secrets, but I promised i would never share. Called Me And Told Me Everything. I was just in the airport lounge bhavling is so amazing and beyond my wildest dreams and one of the Most beaut Series.
Could Mia Smoak Return in James Gunn’s DC Universe?
James Gunn in ‘Superpowered: The DC Story.’ Photograph by courtesy of max/warner bros.
Finally, we asked mcnamara if she would be willing to reprise her role as green arrow in a future Dc Studios’ Project if she was to get a call from james gunn.
“I’m a big fan, so i am down. If he wants the green arrow in the movie verse of DC, I Volunteer as Tribute.”
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