Justin Hartley hasn’t always been Kevin Pearson.

“It was [originally] four or six episodes, this arc they had written for me.

And then he was to be gone,” Hartley said.

Justin Hartley as Green Arrow

Credit: Jack Rowand/THE CW

“Thankfully, the people that watched the show, they loved this character.

He had a lot to say.”

And it was the first time I think on that show where you had a guy in a costume.

He’s wearing the costume.

And I always loved the fact that he was mortal.

I loved the fact that when he got hit, he got hurt.

And he could die."