Memories from the Set: Seth Gabel on "Arrow"


Gabel was excited to be playing a comic book super villain, but he didn't have much time to do research when he got the call to do the part.

"A lot of it was influenced by what they had initially told me, which was that he was very much like Heath Ledger's Joker in Batman. I tried to tap into whatever realm of energy he had tapped into. Then try to find my own version of that."



Something that helped him get into character was figuring out how to hold a gun.

"If a character's holding a gun really loosely, and is haphazardly kind of tossing their hand around, that's really scary," shares Gabel. "That became the basis for the character. At any moment something terrible can happen, but he either wants it to, or it's an accident. But it doesn't matter because he doesn't care."

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