SPOILER ALERT: Stephen Amell’s Arrow is all new tonight. Things just keep getting worse for poor old Oliver Queen. Deathstroke has managed to steal his company, dismantle his team and kill his mother. Now Moira Queen actress Susanna Thompson is opening up about her character’s death, and Ollies secret baby.
Moira Queen herself, Susanna Thompson, recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about how she found out there her character was dying:
“The writers have a wonderful trajectory of where they think they’re heading, and as Marc Guggenheim said to me, ‘We don’t take these types of storylines lightly.’ They come in with the possibility and then they sit with it and sit with it and make sure it’s the right path. And I know it was hard for both of them [Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg]. It was Andrew who had the unfortunate job of chatting with me and telling me what was going to happen in the story. We all know that any one of us could be in the situation as characters on a TV show based on a comic book, but that doesn’t stop the initial impact of it.”
Thompson went on to talk about the other major revelation of the episode, Ollie’s secret baby:
“It wasn't surprising. The producers like to create these unexpected Easter eggs. You find these eggs in different areas, hidden away, and a lot of them are in Central City, it feels like.As Marc talked to me about the episode, what he liked about that particular bit of it was it allowed the audience to see how her brain works. She is still protecting her son and a grandchild. Yes, she is asking the young woman to go away and yes, she is paying her off. But the way I wanted to play it, I did truly want Moira to feel sincere about helping that child out.”
Check out the all new episode of Arrow tonight at 8:00 p.m. on The CW.
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