Willa Holland to return

Willa Holland to return Oct 11, 2019 19:44:27 GMT

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Post by stargazer1682 on Oct 11, 2019 19:44:27 GMT

Oct 11, 2019 14:40:20 GMT dazz said:

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

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

Man, I could have sworn when Willa's original departure as a series regular was announced, that I had read that she had been making regular appearances on some other series; and that part of the motivation to both reduce her commitment to Arrow and to eventually leave was some level of desire to be more involved with that show - but I don't see anything that fits that on IMDB.....

I think with Michael, the whole thing was a catch-22; the writers couldn't very well write something specifically for Michael, without knowing if he'd be involved, but not knowing the scope of what that involvement would be would make it difficult to say yes. And as I've mentioned before, I have a suspicion that many of these cameos are going to the most fan-servicey things possible, where like, you're going to see Tom Welling and Erica Durance stand in front of the Kent farmhouse and see the red, destructive anti-matter wave coming over the horizon, and Tom's Clark will take two steps, about to open his shirt, but before he can fly off as Superman the anti-matter wave over takes them and it's goodbye Smallville.
I mean, it may be more to it than that, but considering how they used the 90s Flash last year, I'm not holding my breath for much more than that. I wouldn't be surprised if the extent of Rossenbaum's appearance as Lex would be him looking out the window, sipping scotch while the world endeded.

Still, if I were him, I might have at least asked for a meeting to find out exactly what the possibilities were; and if it were something appreciable, consider it; and if it was just to pop up for five minutes of screen time, it probably wouldn't be worth the effort. He might be at a point where he feels like, he's put his time in as the character; and anything short of massively vital role to the plot probably wouldn't be anything more than a blip on the radar.
I had seen some fan art that made an interesting suggestion of him appearing as an alternate Flash, which could have been fun. He could be part of Kevin Conroy's earth's Justice League. But there again, how much time are they going to dedicate to anyone who isn't a series regular on the Arrowverse shows in this crossover?