Long live the real Iris.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This was a big episode for you.
How did you react when you first read the script?
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I didn’t know that it would go that far with it.
I was really stoked.
I just thought this was going to be, you know, a really special episode.
What was it like to shoot that fight with Grant?
Well a lot of it was shot with our stunt doubles.
Then the shots where you see us both in one shot together, we would shoot together.
It was cool to work with Grant in that way.
So, it was really neat.
I mean, you guys also had a prettybruising emotional fight in the previous episode.
What was it like to shoot that and take this couple in that direction?
So it was a bit of a challenge to kind of fully go there and let it all out.
How did you approach playing Mirror-Iris?
Did you think of her as another character?
Initially in talking to Eric I was like, How close are they?
Like how, how much of a replica is she?
He was like, Theyre 98 percent identity.
I wanted these moments where you would slowly see her kind of sinister side.
I just wanted that to kind of build.
A lot of it was in the writing.
I wanted her clothing to be a little bit different than Iris.
I imagined Mirror-Iris going into her closet and being like, This is a hot dress.
Why didn’t you wear this anymore?
So I kind of wanted to like physically embody a different version of Iris again.
And those are just a couple of ways that I approached it.
So, I wanted to show a little bit of that.
It was kind of a surprise to me.
It didn’t throw me too much.
But when I read it, it, it made sense.
You see this person naturally kind of have this Pinocchio moment of like, I want to be real.
I want to have a real-life.
We almost empathize with her and feel bad for her even though we know she’s so terrible.
I thought there was something tragically ironic about her finally feeling alive right before she dies.
How did it feel to play that death scene?
So, it was a good one for me.
The Flashairs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.
