Who is Dr. Harrison Wells? Is he the accidental creator of Central City's savior, or the one that will bring it to
its knees? Whatever the case may be one thing is certain, Dr. Wells has some
skeletons in his closet.
While talking to Collider the
actor, Tom Cavanagh spoke about his character's secrets, motivations, and
surprises.
"Collider: Dr. Harrison
Wells clearly has secrets.
CAVANAGH: Right.
The Flash, out of all our characters, might be the easiest character to
define. If someone didn’t know anything about the character at all, you
still get that he’s an innocent, optimistic, ordinary guy, and something extraordinary
happens to him when he’s struck by lightning and can go fast. Whereas the
rest of the characters are operating on a whole bunch of different levels than
he is. Their agendas are not as clear or as open as Barry Allen’s, and
that makes for good storytelling.
Collider: Are you aware of
what his agenda and motivations are?
CAVANAGH: Sure,
yeah. It would be self-serving to talk about the tiny little things that
probably don’t get noticed, but I know somebody will notice the smaller things
that I’m doing to serve the various levels. I have to know what those
levels are, to add the minutiae. If you watch carefully, you’d be like,
“Oh, okay!” That is just a joy to play. The goals that he’s
striving for are authentic. I can’t really explain it, but it’s all
married together. There’s a certain purpose to it. Harrison is
operating on this level where it’s not duplicity. He needs Barry, and
Barry needs him. That is completely true. He values and cares for
Barry for very authentic reasons that we see on screen.
Collider: Is it fun to be one
of the characters that’s in on the secret identity, from the beginning?
CAVANAGH: Yes. I
like the peeling off of the layers, as much as the next person. There are
always surprises, even for Geoff [Johns], Greg [Berlanti] and Andrew [Kreisberg].
There are things that they hope to do, but they’re not sure that they can pull
them off. For want of a better word, we know the broad strokes. But
with every episode, there’s always an, “Oh, wow!” As there should be in a
comic book world, there are a lot of surprises, and the surprises are very
cool."
Source - Collider
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