Generally, the true behind-the-scenes drama doesn’t come out a couple of present till years after it’s achieved. As a main instance of this, actress Katie Cassidy is opening up about her abrupt exit from Arrow in 2016 when her character, Laurel Lance/Black Canary, was killed off close to the tip of season 4. In response to Cassidy, she solely discovered about her destiny on the sequence days earlier than taking pictures Laurel’s loss of life scene.
Through Deadline, Cassidy appeared on Inside You with Michael Rosenbaum and revealed that she was knowledgeable about her exit from the present whereas she was touring to a comic book conference to advertise Arrow. Then she needed to fake that she didn’t know that Laurel can be the character getting the ax whereas chatting with followers on the occasion.
“I used to be indignant at first,” recalled Cassidy. “And I used to be emotional as a result of I used to be unhappy, and I used to be indignant as a result of I used to be so glad.” She additionally famous that she “needed to eat some humble pie once they killed me off that present,” earlier than including that “it was actually arduous.”
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Cassidy was one of many unique forged members on Arrow, and Black Canary was historically the love curiosity of the main character, Oliver Queen/Inexperienced Arrow (as performed by Fits LA‘s Stephen Amell). Regardless, that relationship was ditched on the present in favor of Oliver’s romance with Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards). Cassidy didn’t come proper out and say she was killed off as a result of Laurel had turn out to be expendable, however she’s positively thought in regards to the the reason why.
“I believe it was a few issues,” mentioned Cassidy. “I’ve theories. I believe it was political. It’s loads.” She additionally mentioned that she advised the present’s producers that “‘I really feel like I’ve at all times been given the quick finish of the stick and I’ve to go,” earlier than including that she didn’t yell about it. “I simply cried as a result of I used to be unhappy.”
Nevertheless, the story has a contented ending for Cassidy. She was invited again to make a visitor look on The Flash as Black Siren, an alternate universe model of Laurel who grew to become a villain on her world. From there, she was reintroduced as a recurring forged member on Arrow earlier than she was formally introduced again as a sequence common till the tip of the present’s eight season run.
Cassidy famous that Arrow government producer Marc Guggenheim advised her “I believe we could have made a mistake,” whereas providing her a return engagement on the sequence. Cassidy was additionally slated to be one of many essential forged members for the proposed Inexperienced Arrow and the Canaries spinoff, which in the end didn’t go ahead.
