The Multiverse is open on The Flash and a living legend speeds onto The CW series tonight.
Teddy Sears joins the cast as Jay Garrick, The Flash of Earth 2 and the original Speedster of the comics.
Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) will meet his counterpart from another Earth and he’ll need it for his upcoming battle with Zoom, the big bad of season two.
Sears says he’s reading up on his legendary character by hitting the (comic) books while following the lead from the producers:
“While I’m educating myself on the landscape and the mythology, I really am making it my own. That’s one thing that Andrew Kreisberg was really insistent on. Bringing a lot of what the writers’ current intentions are, what I’m feeling about the character, bringing those things and fleshing them out in 2015 and not trying to play 1940s Jay Garrick. But I don’t think you can separate the two necessarily, especially aesthetically. Thank goodness they didn’t try to age up the helmet. They kept it a WWI-era helmet, but they did modernize the suit while keeping the original lightning bolt. So they’re really trying to achieve a balance between the two.” Sears in a DC Comics interview.
“But I also think Jay Garrick is kind of an old school guy. He’s a physicist and chemist who has some years on Barry. He’s got more life experience. He’s a bit more world weary than young, eager Barry Allen. So all of those things I try to keep in mind while also doing what’s on the page and interacting with these wonderful characters at S.T.A.R. Labs.”
Jay Garrick arrives on The Flash tonight at 8 pm on The CW.
By Editor