Tom Cavanagh, who plays Harrison Wells on The Flash (and who also played JD’s brother on Scrubs, I might add), sat down with Puck Soup podcast on The Nerdist for an interview. In the interview he spoke at great lengths about his cast mate, Grant Gustin.
“It was either Variety or Vanity Fair that wrote an article that said [DC] needs to watch what they’re doing on TV, because the TV’s working and some of the other darker stuff isn’t working.”
He added:
“Here’s what I’ll say about him not being The Flash. The first thing is that for Zack Snyder to say ‘that’s not really the universe that we’re building,’ it’s excruciating for an actor. Because you’re like, ‘Uh, what about acting?’ He’s a clean-cut guy and winning, yes, because he’s acting that. He’s not Barry Allen. He’s Grant Gustin. He created that thing. If you want [your Flash] to have long hair and be a slacker, believe me, Grant can play that. He makes it look easy and makes everything think that’s what he is because he’s an incredibly skilled talent. That’s why he has that job. That’s why people like the show.”
“If Zack Snyder were to read him for [The Flash], he would be shocked. It’s crazy for a big-time Hollywood director to say ‘that’s not the universe.’ It’s a huge misstep on his part. If you’re a director, and you’re worth your oats, then you should be able to, given an actor with talent, mold him into what you want, and Grant could do that.”
“The second thing is that the movies are tremendous. They’re building all of us up. The difficult thing for the movies is that we’ve had two years in the case of The Flash to win you over and tell a story. They have two hours. That’s not easy to do. So that’s why you see so many missteps. It’s very hard to get that right. And I said to Grant when this was announced: ‘Look, that’s years from now. Do you just want to just be The Flash? You have the ability to be in a Spielberg war movie next.’ And that will happen for him.”
“For his first big movie role to be The Flash, I don’t know if that’s the best thing for him. because you’re asking him to do the same thing he’s had years to do, to do the exact same thing in two hours, and it’s in different hands creatively. It’s tricky.”
Now that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has been released, we now have a taste of the Flash from that universe. Cavanagh is right about the long haired slacker look. He is also correct that Gustin is a tremendous actor, and does a hell of job as Barry Allen.
It is a shame that the movies aren’t connected with the shows, like Marvel is. But regardless of how well Gustin plays the Flash, the movies do exist in another universe. So Gustin doesn’t exist in the movie-verse — that’s alright. I prefer watching him week to week, rather than waiting until 2018 when Ezra Miller’s flick is flung.
But keep in mind, Barry Allen has been known to travel to different Earths. This season focused on the existence of Earth-2, with Jay Garrick and Zoom. He also went over to the Earth CBS’s Supergirl lives on. Who’s to say he can’t run over to the Earth Miller’s Flash lives.
Any case, catch the season two finale of The Flash, where the finale race with Zoom will take place, this coming Tuesday on The CW.
Source: The Nerdist