It’s been teased throughout the season, but on Tuesday’s “The Flash,” the show will finally deliver a big F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. story, pairing Robbie Amell and Victor Garber on screen.
While both Robbie and Victor were in last week’s “The Flash,” Tuesday’s episode – the first of a F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M.-related two-parter — is expected to reveal just how things work between Ronnie Raymond (Robbie) and Dr. Martin Stein (Victor), who were fused into one meta-human following the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator explosion a year ago in Central City.
Ronnie (or is it Victor?) has been an unstable meta-human in recent episodes and that is going to continue when we find him this Tuesday at 8/7c. Can the gang at S.T.A.R. Labs help Ronnie (we know he visits them because he is shirtless in their facility in a sneak peek photo from this week’s episode)? What does Robbie think of SnowBarry (Caitlin Snow and Barry Allen, who seem to be developing feelings for each other)? And how are things when Ronnie runs into his old boss, Harrison Wells? AccessHollywood.com turned to the always delightful Robbie Amell to find out.
PHOTOS: ‘The Flash’: Scenes From ‘The Nuclear Man’
AccessHollywood.com: Let me just ask you (because I’ve seen the sneak peek photos from this week’s episode)… does The CW always put shirtless Robbie scenes in your contract?
Robbie Amell: Yes. They wouldn’t hire me without them (laughs). No, I actually – I normally don’t mind. I get it, but I put my foot down on one… not [Tuesday’s] episode, but next week’s episode. So when they finally figure out how to split Dr. Stein and I, they planned a running joke that was going to be when we split, he gets the clothes and I’m naked. And I was like, ‘Oh, that’s kind of funny.’ And then, we went to shoot it and we were shooting in the middle of nowhere in Vancouver. And Vancouver’s normally pretty mild, but it was like the coldest day of the year for Vancouver. It was -2, which doesn’t sound that bad, but you’re in a giant open salt mine-looking field and they have three giant, like 10 x 10 foot fans because they want all the dust swirling around. So it goes from like, -2 to -30 as soon as they turn on the fan. And I was like, ‘Guys, there’s not a chance in hell I’m laying in this crater naked.’ I was like, ‘Figure it out. I’m destroying your running joke.’ And Andrew [Kreisberg, ‘The Flash’ executive producer] was like, ‘Oh… Really?’ I’m like, ‘You come… hang out here naked. … I’ll do it if you hang out in video village in nothing but underwear, because I’m like I’m in a jacket shooting the scene right now and I’m still freezing my a** off.’ (Laughs)
Access: So you didn’t push for Victor to have to deal with what you had to deal with?
Robbie: (laughs) No, Victor’s pretty funny. Victor does the opposite. He’s like, ‘Get Robbie’s shirt off. Make Robbie do the action, I’m just gonna do my work over here.’ Victor’s very funny.
WATCH: Rick Cosnett: What’s Next For Eddie On ‘The Flash’?
Access: You should have pushed him. He’s done Broadway, he’s done pretty much every television show in the world. You should have said, ‘Victor, here’s the deal.’
Robbie: Like, ‘Victor, it’s your turn.’
Access: Yeah, ‘Go further for your craft, Victor!’
Robbie: (laughs) You tell him that. I’ll leave that to you.
Access: OK. Sure. Why not (laughs). Ok, here’s the tough question for you, you playing Ronnie and all – let’s face it, there’s a connection between Barry and Caitlin. How do you feel about that?
Robbie: Me, as a fan who watches the show, I actually love that dynamic, but as Ronnie, I mean, I’ve been away for a year. Ronnie hasn’t seen it yet and he doesn’t really see it over the next couple of episodes because when I come back it’s really the origin story of trying to figure out what to do with Ronnie and Stein and then once they are separated, it’s really Ronnie and Caitlin trying to figure things out and a lot has changed in a year. She’s not hunting and taking down meta-humans and he’s looking for something a little quieter because he just spent a year sharing his brain with Dr. Stein, so there’s really not – there’s not a whole lot of love triangle going on just yet. But with that being said, I’m sure it’ll be an issue down the road.
Access: So when you split I know you get the haircut–
Robbie: Thank God!
READ: ‘The Flash’: Malese Jow On Barry’s New Love Connection
Access: Is that all going to be explained, why you get to clean up?
Robbie: It’s not really explained. When they bring me into S.T.A.R. Labs, they give me some sedatives and a cocktail of drugs to kind of separate Stein and I mentally. We’re still physically in one body, but at that point, it’s time to clean up a little bit because [Ronnie has looked] like such a piece of garbage for the last three episodes.
Access How’s he going to feel towards Harrison when Ronnie is Ronnie again and not a merge? Because, as we know, Harrison was warned (that it could be unstable before he turned on the particle accelerator), and he told the public that.
Robbie: With Ronnie, he doesn’t really hold a grudge [toward] Harrison or to Cisco. He told Cisco to close the door and he squashes it right away when he comes back. Cisco tries to apologize and he shuts it down. He’s just — he’s happy to see Harrison. He’s actually sad Harrison lost the movement in his legs. He actually apologizes to Harrison — to Wells — that it happened, so Ronnie’s just one of those guys. He loves these guys, he worked with them for so long. He’s just kind of happy to be in his own mind again, and able to see these guys again.
Access: What are Barry and Ronnie like when they’re together and they can actually have a conversation? And obviously you saved his butt from that nasty Reverse Flash last year.
Robbie: Yeah, but did Ronnie, or did Stein, or did both of them or neither of them? Ronnie and Barry haven’t spent any time together because they weren’t really buddies before the explosion. They didn’t know each other before the explosion and since then, it’s been this schizophrenic homeless guy who hasn’t really been able to converse with anybody in a regular way. So you get to see a little bit of Martin… come through, which is when I have to do a bit of a Victor Garber impression, which was a nightmare and a dream at the same time, and then you get a little bit of – over the next two episodes – you get a little bit of a sense that these guys could be good friends, even though there’s definitely a little something for Caitlin from Barry.
“The Flash” airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.
— Jolie Lash
Copyright © 2024 by NBC Universal, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
This material may not be republished, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.