![]() And once you get into the spirit of it, it's like slipping into a comfy old pair of tennis shoes." The appearance of the Trickster isn't the only call back to the '90s Flash. But I thought, 'Well, if it's really terrible, it's only one episode, they can survive me.' But yeah, it was terribly intimidating until I got there. "I didn't want to show up and ruin the series I liked. After joking about how he's never able to play a part decades later, he said getting back into the role was fun but not without pressure. Hamill mentioned taking the "comic book crazy guy" approach, and that's very much how the Trickster came across in his appearances on the earlier Flash. I’m telling you, it just moved me beyond words." And he brought it so close to home in terms of how emotionally damaged he was. It's just not tethered to reality in my mind. It was astonishing how troubled a kid this was. I'd seen Devon working, and I thought he was very, very good, but there was a take where he confesses his devotion for me and he was so real. "I just am so enamored of this young actor, Devon Graye. Because he really gets to do all the fun, Trickstery things with the parachute bombs and whatnot." He was also impressed with Graye's performance. When I read the script, I said, 'Who’s this punk getting all my stuff?' I reacted just like I was in character. Hamill was impressed with both the concept of having a new Trickster, "I shouldn’t have been surprised when they had such an ingenious idea as having Devon Graye play a new Trickster. I mean, it's got the fantasy element, the comic book elements, but it's really strong in characters." In the episode, the Trickster isn't thrilled that someone else is using his name and trying to take his place. One thing that impressed me about the show is how smart the writing is. ![]() So I said, 'Well, who do they want me to play?' And they said, 'The Trickster.' I just couldn’t believe it, because I couldn't figure out how that could be, unless it’s some kind of weird time travel episode. And then I got a call from my business people saying, 'They want you to do something on The Flash.' And I was thinking like a colleague of John Wesley Shipp's, a professor, something age-appropriate - I'm not getting back in that one-piece jumpsuit, spandex deal. In fact, I even thought, since they were doing Mirror Master and Weather Wizard and various other Rogues’ Gallery characters, I wonder if they’re going to do the Trickster. He said, "My daughter Chelsea is a big fan, and I watched it from the very first episode. Hamill has been watching this version of The Flash since the start. ![]()
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