“Russian Doll” standout Charlie Barnett is joining the “Arrowverse.”
Barnett, who is having a busy year having also appeared in Netflix’s “Tales of the City,” comes on board in the series regular role of John Diggle, Jr., son of David Ramsey’s character. News of his casting was announced at the show’s farewell Comic-Con panel where things got suitably emotional. The CW series is coming to an end after season 8, which premieres in October.
Executive producer Marc Guggenheim teased that Barnett’s character has “a bit of an edge to him” and will wear a costume that fans will find “very surprising.”
Guggenheim and co. went on to talk about why they decided to end the show after eight outings.
“We wanna go out while people are still talking about the show and the show is still the show, we don’t want to turn it into something...
Barnett, who is having a busy year having also appeared in Netflix’s “Tales of the City,” comes on board in the series regular role of John Diggle, Jr., son of David Ramsey’s character. News of his casting was announced at the show’s farewell Comic-Con panel where things got suitably emotional. The CW series is coming to an end after season 8, which premieres in October.
Executive producer Marc Guggenheim teased that Barnett’s character has “a bit of an edge to him” and will wear a costume that fans will find “very surprising.”
Guggenheim and co. went on to talk about why they decided to end the show after eight outings.
“We wanna go out while people are still talking about the show and the show is still the show, we don’t want to turn it into something...
- 7/20/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
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