although the Black Canary may be gone on Arrow (Still not over it), it seems her legacy on the show will carry on and this will include a new permanent fixture in Star City, A tease on twitter from Arrow showrunner Marc Guggenheim show’s a new Black Canary memorial statue will be erected in Season 5 by Oliver Queen. The one that was post on Twitter said “Option 5” so it may not be the final design we see on the show.
One of the saddest television departures of the season was the heartbreaking murder of Laurel Lance aka Black Canary at the hands of the dastardly Damien Darhk on Arrow. While fans bemoaned the character’s death, the CW superhero universe has been known to bring a number of beloved cast members back from the dead in the past (the Lazarus Pit! Time travel!), so is there a chance that Katie Cassidy’s Laurel Lance could once again pop up on The CW?
Her on-screen sister Caity Lotz believes so!
Lotz, who’s now kicking butt and taking names as Sara Lance on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, told People’s Choice at the CW Upfronts last month that she doesn’t think we’ve seen the last of her TV sibling, and pointed to the character’s Earth-2 cameo on The Flash as proof.
With a BIG thank you to Nerdsand Beyond who were at Katie’s panel at Mega con and who send it to me for you all to see.
Katie says new projects is a new thriller film
“Malcolm’s new love interest is Black Siren.”
Would Katie like to face off against caity as Black Siren vs White Canary? “Ooh yes.”
Katie recently found out she’s going to be the lead in a badass woman video game! Katie is a gamer!
Katie says favorite moment was the end of season 2 when she put on the jacket
“I do hope there will be more.” Katie talking about Black Siren
Which costume did Katie prefer? Black Canary or Black Siren? She can’t pick! “They’re so cool!”
“This is what he looks like. He’s really hot.” -Katie on learning what the Green Arrow & Stephen looked like
Katie really wanted to do some action and kick some ass as Black Canary
loved getting to play the villain in Black Siren on The Flash. “It’s fun to play bad
Katie says that it was sad that Laurel had to die but she understood it from a story standpoint
Again thanks Nerdsand Beyond .
So Katie is at this time in Orlando for Mega Con with her former Arrow star John Barrowman. So far Katie has been there for two of the three day’s she is down for tomorrow being her last. So far she has done photoshoots and autos on both the day’s but so far no panel maybe tomorrow?.
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– Public Events > 2016 > Conventions > Mega > Autographs & Misc – Day 1
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– Public Events > 2016 > Conventions > Mega > Autographs & Misc – Day 2
– Public Events > 2016 > Conventions > Mega > Photoshoots – Day 2
Well that’s it people Katie’s last????? Arrow episode 4×19 – Canary Cry is now over, Katie was incredible
during the flashback scenes, that were set in between season one and two. HD screencaps from 4×19 – Canary Cry have been added to the gallery!
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– Television Series > Arrow > Season 4 > Screencaptures > 4×19 – Canary Cry
After some time in New York, Katie came back to Vancouver for the Arrow Season 4 Wrap Party, Katie look’s like she was having a great time and was up on the stage with Stephen dancing and then the rest of the cast came up. One photos from the event is now up in the gallery as well as a video of all the cast on stage you can watch below
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– Public Events > 2016 > Arrow Season 4 Wrap Party
x002 MQ episode stills from Katie’s last Arrow episode? called 4×19 – Canary Cry are now up in the gallery, I would have loved to have seen some of her from the flash backs but still. And remember that this will air 27th April.
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– Television Series > Arrow > Season 4 > Episode Stills > 4×19 – Canary Cry
Laurel Lance’s (Katie Cassidy) death on Arrow may be controversial when it comes to the comic book source material, but her portrayer understands why Black Canary ended up in the flash-forward grave on The CW series.
“Since season two up until now, Laurel has had a truly amazing journey and [the writers] have written so well for me,” Cassidy told reporters after a recent press screening. “I’ve had such an incredible arc so it made sense to me, creatively, that we’ve told Laurel’s story. It has come to an end in the Arrow-verse.”
Wednesday’s episode finally paid off the storyline teased back in the season four premiere when a flash forward showed Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) kneeling at a freshly dug grave. The Flash‘s Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) arrived to pay his respects after the funeral, and Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) waiting angrily for Oliver in a limo, ready to leave the cemetery to get revenge on Damien Dahrk (Neil McDonough) for putting whoever that mysterious person was in that grave. “Eleven-Fifty-Nine” finally revealed that it was Laurel after Dahrk stabbed her with one of Oliver’s own arrows while he was escaping Iron Heights Prison. Oliver brought Laurel to the hospital, and despite making it out of surgery, she suddenly coded and died while in recovery.
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After almost an entire season of build-up, tonight’s “Arrow” finally revealed which team member dies and ends up in the grave that was introduced in the Season 4 premiere: Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy), aka Black Canary — a character that many comic book fans likely thought was safe, given Black Canary’s iconic status in the DC Comics universe.
Executive producers Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle, along with Cassidy and her co-star Paul Blackthorne (who plays Laurel’s father, Quentin Lance), sat down with reporters earlier this week to discuss the shocking events of the episode, which saw a newly escaped Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), stab Laurel as payback for her father’s earlier betrayal. After it seemed like doctors had managed to stabilize Laurel at the hospital, she shared a heartfelt scene with the other members of Team Arrow, and confided something in Oliver (Stephen Amell), before she began coding and ultimately died. Below, the producers explain how they came to this decision, and Cassidy recalls her emotions while filming her final scenes, and what she hopes her character’s legacy will be.
This group interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.
Katie, can you talk about the emotions of shooting your death scene, and the last scene you shot?
Cassidy: I found out that this was the choice, creatively, that was going to be made and obviously I talked to Marc and Greg and Wendy and I actually had found out right before the court scenes – that day we shot in the court.
Blackthorne: And that’s when you told me, yeah.
Cassidy: Which was hard. I remember I was like “okay, I need to put this on the backburner for now,” because I had a huge day of all legal jargon and a lot. But it actually worked out really well because in the next episode, 19, I’m actually in the episode and it’s a lot of flashbacks. And emotionally it’s interesting because that scene that you see when I’m in the hospital and I say goodbye, I say to the team, “I never wanted this, I was thinking up giving up the Black Canary and I couldn’t do it,” honestly, that scene was definitely so real, shooting it, because it was my saying goodbye to the team … So it definitely wasn’t difficult for me to get to that emotional point. For sure it was hard, but it was very real and it was good, it was genuine. And then the last scene I think I shot was… we had to do a reshoot, actually, of when I actually die, when Darhk stabs the Black Canary, and that was a week after, I think? That was the very last scene that we shot, and it was so weird because I remember we had broken for lunch, we came back – I was running to set and putting on my jacket and my gloves and they were just calling me to set to show wrap me, and I didn’t know I was done and it was just sort of a bit of a shock. But it was good, I feel like there was no other way I would want it to go.
Blackthorne: Can I just add something? In terms of, when you find out news like this, it’s rather annoying and very devastating and all the rest of it – you’re going to lose a cast member such as Katie, but at the same time, it was such a shock, certainly to me and I think to everybody, when the news came out, that you’re thinking “god, we’re right in the middle of this thing and it was shocking. What’s it gonna be to the audience?’’ and in terms of fantastic story, as awful as it is that Black Canary’s the sacrifice, in terms of story, it’s like wham – and if that’s not what story’s about, then what is it about? So in terms of the element of this story, it’s an amazing turn to throw at the audience and people aren’t expecting it, and it’s fantastic. If it shocked us that much, what’s it going to do to the audience? It’s great story.
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Even if you knew it was coming, the death that came at the end of Wednesday’s episode of Arrow was no less impactful.
After fans waited months to discover who was in the grave, Arrow ultimately revealed that Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) met a grim fate at the hands of Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), who had previously vowed harm on the Black Canary should Detective Lance (Paul Blackthorne) fail to stay in line. (More on how it went down here.)
“It made sense to me creatively,” Cassidy says. “Laurel’s story has come to an end in the Arrow-verse.” Therefore, the actress, an original cast member on the CW super show, is no longer a series regular — though it’s certainly not the last we’ve seen of her. Ahead of the shocking reveal, executive producer Marc Guggenheim teased that Cassidy will appear on both The Flash and Vixen. But she’ll also return to Arrow as early as the next new episode via flashbacks.
For her part, Cassidy discovered that her character was on the chopping block while filming the courtroom scenes, where Laurel is attempting to take down Damien Darhk the legal way. “I remember I was like, ‘Okay, I need to put this on the back burner for now because I had a huge day of all legal jargon,’ ” Cassidy says, admitting the emotional moment with Team Arrow in the hospital required very little acting. “Honestly that scene was so real shooting it because it was me saying goodbye to the team and all of us. Definitely wasn’t difficult for me to get to that emotional point. For sure, it was hard, but it was very real. I felt like that was good. It was genuine and it was real.”
Though that wasn’t the site of Cassidy’s swan song. “The last scene I think I shot was we had to do a reshoot actually of when I actually die, when Darhk stabs the Black Canary,” Cassidy says, revealing she kept a Black Canary jacket and mask as keepsakes. “That was a week after. That was the very last scene that we shot. It was so weird because I remember we had broken for lunch, we came back and I was running to set and I was putting on my jacket and gloves and they were just calling me to set to show-wrap me. I didn’t know that I was done. It was a bit of a shock. But it was good. I feel like there was no other way that I would want it to go.”
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Katie has one more episode of Arrow to do that will be flashbacks, and it will air on April 27th, 2016.
Say goodbye to a beloved member of Team Arrow on when Arrow returns with all-new episodes starting Wednesday April 27th on The CW
I have been trying all day to think on what to say here and honestly I still don’t no. I am still devastated over this and how and why it when down for the story not so much it was done for the “shock value” and no matter the show that is never ok, I could go on a big rant on all this (Forbes did a great one you can read Here ) but I’m just going to keep it to this
Thank you so much Katie, for all the hard work you put into being Dinah Laurel Lance over the 4 years. I’m grateful that we got to experience this all with you and watch your talent through over the years I hope this is not the end of your journey and we get to see you back on one of the shows as some version of Laurel in the future.
goodbye,pretty bird.
GALLERY LINKs:
– Television Series > Arrow > Season 4 > Screencaptures > 4×18 – Eleven-Fifty-Nine