Willa Holland to return

Oct 11, 2019 12:21:40 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:

Oct 1, 2019 14:03:58 GMT dazz said:

I think the idea would be don't mention a character too often that we cannot show as it just builds up peoples hope of them popping back up, which as we know is true given how many speculation videos get made for almost every comic property after the most vague allusion to other characters.

Glad Willa agreed to come back, that's often the thing people ignore is the shows could want the actors back for episodes but the actors themselves are just like no fuck it, Rosenbaum for instance I heard refused multiple offers to come back on Smallville after he left and wasn't easy to get back even for the series finale, sometimes it's just scheduling other times actors left on bad terms or they just got sick of the show/think they are too big for it now, but again glad Willa is back even just briefly for the finale season, it would feel wrong to not see her one last time at the very least.

Yeah. I suppose that makes sense but I am still kinda confused over why the actress left the show in the first place and if it was really her decision or the writers decided to write her off 'cause it doesn't look like she has appeared in much of anything since she left 'Arrow' and the only role she has had has been playing a voice actor in the 'Kingdom Hearts' video games and I thought she left 'cause she got a role in another show but looking back at the way they handled her character it didn't really feel like they knew what to do with her after Season 4 and it didn't really make much sense to me not to keep her as Speedy when they had killed Laurel off and Roy left the show and it would have made more sense to have had her stay with Oliver and train the new recruits. Either way I am glad she is coming back too 'cause I think they need to wrap her story up since we don't know what happened to her after Roy and her went their separate ways and it would make sense for Thea to come back and help her brother one last time before he dies. 

With Michael Rosenbaum I remember him saying in some of his more recent interviews he was willing to come back for a 'Smallville' reunion or an animated season of 'Smallville' to play Lex again so I am kinda surprised he didn't agree to this but them not letting him see the script or telling him what role he was going to play would turn some actors off signing up to it. That being said why don't they get John Glover back instead? He was in 'Shazam' not long ago and it would be fun to see him in the 'Arrowverse' as some version of a Luthor or possibly another character.

I think Willa may have just gotten a bit tired of stuff after a while, she's been relatively active since she was 14 so she may have just been like screw it I want a break, she could also have been working on other projects that didn't come to fruition, I think most actors have that, like 50% of the things they work on don't get far enough along for the public to know about but it still takes months of their time, as for her on arrow iirc Willa asked for a reduced role for S5 & 6, going from 20+ episodes to 16 a year, which was her choice, which I think is why they stopped using her as Speedy as it's more work, they are more intricate night shoots with choreographed scenes, as I recall the producers and everyone loved Willa and wanted to make it work with her as best they could so they reduced her workload whilst keeping her as prominent as they could, but like I said I think she just got tired of the grind, she's from LA so she may have got tired of spending 6+ months a year in Vancouver, a lot of actors give up roles for a number of reasons that most people would be like wtf you gave up how much and for what?

One thing also for all we know Willa could have done shitloads of voice acting in the last year and those things just haven't been announced, Katee Sackoff I think recorded her appearances on SW Rebels like 12-18 months before those episodes aired.

The Rosenbaum thing I think sounds mostly a respect thing, like they didn't come to him with the right respect he felt he should have got and just was like no, because honestly it's a months work or less for between 1-5 episodes of TV, not like that's expected to be a 6 figure offer, if he came back who he would be playing is kind of obvious given the scenario, so it honestly just feels like he felt disrespected which is sad because he is still my fav Lex and I love seeing him on TV, this would have been a great chance to see him back again but, oh well maybe next time, 10 years from now