'You can age naturally and not worry about how you look so much,' he says. Since then, Hamill crafted a successful career as a voiceover actor, playing a version of the Joker on Batman: The Animated Series. 'I was devastated when it wasn't picked up,' Hamill says. Hamill had been cast by original Flash creators Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo as the villain without an audition - at one meeting, 'I just nerded out on them because I knew all these characters,' he says.Īfter guesting on two episodes, Trickster was supposed to have teamed up with other bad guys including Captain Cold and Mirror Master, but the show was canceled after one season. Playing the Trickster again rights one of his biggest regrets. 'The idea that there was a Trickster 20 years before the Flash, that's a leap of faith.' 'The idea of having me wasting away in prison and being drawn out by this wannabe Trickster, it's so great,' says Hamill. Hamill was just glad that they could still see him as a supervillain: He thought that if he was asked back, he might be cast as an aging colleague of scientist Henry Allen, a prison warden or a college professor. 'The crime story is very much an homage to the tone and style of The Flash from the '90s,' Berlanti says. In addition to some big reveals that pay off in the grander mythology of the show, the episode is a throwback in every way, from performers to music. John Wesley Shipp, who played the original Flash, is Barry's incarcerated father on the new show and Kreisberg says casting Hamill as 'a really cool way to make this episode almost feel like a sequel to the old series.'

Martin) visit the jailed Jesse to gain some know-how in the Hannibal Lecter-style episode. To stop him, super-speedy hero Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and Central City cop Joe West (Jesse L. The original Trickster is in Iron Heights prison when a younger baddie with the same name - played by Devon Graye ( Dexter) - starts causing trouble in Central City.

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