Emily Bett Rickards Drops ‘Arrow’ Spoilers On Felicity Smoak’s Origin Story


Emily Bett Rickards plays the character Felicity Smoak in Arrow and now she’s dropping spoilers on her character’s origin and the potential love story with Oliver Queen.

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The latest episode of Arrow Season 3 will feature the appearance of Felicity Smoak’s mother, Donna, who suddenly decides, “I really miss my daughter. My daughter doesn’t call enough. I’m just going to show up and it’s going to be great.” Needless to say, Felicity isn’t as thrilled, but she does learn a lesson, according to Emily Bett Rickards.

“They’re completely different people. She’s flamboyant, extreme, nurturing, understanding on an emotional level, but a little airy. I would say 99.997% different, but their emotional intellect and nurturing ability, their willingness to accept everyone and non-judgmental personality [are the same]. Felicity doesn’t realize until the end of the episode that those are the qualities that her mother has that she taught her, and she has a new found appreciation for who her mother is.”

According to Rickards, audiences will “get to see her in her college years, so she hadn’t stepped into the Felicity we see now. She was still trying to hide.” According to Entertainment Weekly, the flashback scenes show a dating relationship with a hacker and gave Rickards a chance to stretch her acting skills.

“They were very rewarding for me as an actor to film. Getting to know that side of her and her past was really important to me. Getting to play her on a different level, in a sense, is pretty cool. Getting to play a younger version of her figuring out where her heart really lies, that was all very important.”

We also get to see Emily Bett Rickards as a brunette goth, so that’s a bonus. Of course, what everyone really wants to know is about Felicity’s future with Oliver Queen.

“They are so much more than friends, but they’re not a couple. They’re not in a relationship, but they’re in a relationship all the time. They care really deeply for each other on more than just a platonic level. There’s a deep love there. There’s a very deep emotional connection you don’t really get with everyone. It’s special. It should be treasured, but it’s also scary and a little inconvenient… Having to take a lot of emotional responsibility for it doesn’t leave much emotional liberty for other things, like romance and fun. They need something good to happen to them really soon.”

Otherwise, when asked if she’s made out with Superman, Emily Bett Rickards played coy and said, “I don’t know!”

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