After the news that “Arrow” will be ending after the eighth season, fellow actors have reacted to the news on social media.
Grant Gustin who plays Barry Allen aka The Flash on “The Flash”, a spin-off of “Arrow” turned to Instagram to express himself, saying that it “kinda just hit me.”
“Ever since I started doing this, it’s always been “Flash & Arrow” (or really this should of said “Arrow & Flash” on it’s cover….right, Stephen?),” Gustin said in a lengthy post referencing a TV Guide cover of the two of them.
He notes that he hardly gets to see “Arrow” star Stephen Amell because of scheduling, “but when we’re brought together for those [gruelling] crossover episodes, it always results in something pretty special.”
“It’s just absolutely bananas to stand around with that many people in super suits, and get paid to play make believe on tv. It’s something that wouldn’t happen year after year if it weren’t for the groundwork that Arrow, Stephen and the whole cast and crew laid for us,” Gustin adds.
He continues to explain the “different kind of passion” Amell had towards the show and “how much care he’s always put towards it.”
The message ends with him congratulating the entire cast and crew “on a bada** show that will live on forever.” Teasing, “Maybe this means we can hang out more?”
Emily Bett Rickards, who plays Felicity Smoak on “Arrow” also used Instagram to break her silence on the fate of the show.
RELATED: ‘The Flash’ Star Grant Gustin Marries LA Thoma In Los Angeles Ceremony
She couldn’t “find the words” to “say what the last seven years have meant” but the picture of the cast together “sums it up. It’s a cuddle puddle.”
“Without this show I would have not met the inspiring people pictured here nor those I have gotten to work with and get to work with everyday,” she wrote. “People who have become my family. I’m excited to see what is in store for the story we have been telling. I’m excited and nervous.”
Amell issued a tearful video, announcing that “Arrow” would be no longer. “A large part of this decision is because I’m now a father and a husband and a lot of my life and interests don’t really reside in Vancouver anymore and thinking that’s the best thing for me personally and professionally,” he said.
“Arrow” is currently in the middle of the seventh season. In the Autumn, the show will return for its final 10-episode season. You can watch the show on Mondays at 8 p.m on The CW.
