JamesG
02-01-2019, 03:31 PM
After TVLine replayed for Anna Hopkins her very first scene as playboy Oliver Queen’s pregnant girlfriend on "Arrow", Hopkins raved of scene partner Susanna Thompson.
“She was the best, I love her so much. Right after this, she was going on a trip to Paris, and I had gone to school there, so I remember sitting down for, like, two hours writing out recommendations for her.”
As for landing the top-secret role…. Having previously auditioned to play Sara Lance, Hopkins was later brought in to read for the part of a “journalist.”
After booking the gig and just as she was about to head to Vancouver, she got the 411 on who she really would be playing: Samantha Clayton, mother of Oliver’s son William. For the next few years, starting with an appearance on "The Flash", “I would get these little golden nuggets of like, ‘OK, come to Vancouver!'” she smiles. “I loved working on that set, and I love Stephen [Amell]. He’s such a good guy.”
In the Season 5 finale, Samantha was one of 13 characters whose fate was left up in the air when Prometheus blew up the island of Lian Yu.
“I ran into Stephen [Amell] that summer, and I was like, ‘So… did I make it?'” the actress says. “He was like, ‘No, you’re dying,’ and so I went back to do that last death scene” for the Season 6 opener. Meaning, Samantha is thus far the only confirmed casualty out of more than a dozen people.
“Yep, true. I died,” Hopkins shrugs. After all, “I only have, like, normal-people skills!”
Fun Fact: Hopkins not only knows that TV son William is now in his 30s (in Season 7’s flash-forwards), she actually knows the young man.
“When I first moved to Toronto, Ben Lewis worked at this casting house, as a reader. When I ran into him last summer, he was like, ‘Hey, I was just cast as your son,’ and I was like, ‘Whaaat?!'”
https://tvline.com/gallery/anna-hopkins-photos-arrow-shadowhunters-defiance/#!6/anna-hopkins-arrow-1/
“She was the best, I love her so much. Right after this, she was going on a trip to Paris, and I had gone to school there, so I remember sitting down for, like, two hours writing out recommendations for her.”
As for landing the top-secret role…. Having previously auditioned to play Sara Lance, Hopkins was later brought in to read for the part of a “journalist.”
After booking the gig and just as she was about to head to Vancouver, she got the 411 on who she really would be playing: Samantha Clayton, mother of Oliver’s son William. For the next few years, starting with an appearance on "The Flash", “I would get these little golden nuggets of like, ‘OK, come to Vancouver!'” she smiles. “I loved working on that set, and I love Stephen [Amell]. He’s such a good guy.”
In the Season 5 finale, Samantha was one of 13 characters whose fate was left up in the air when Prometheus blew up the island of Lian Yu.
“I ran into Stephen [Amell] that summer, and I was like, ‘So… did I make it?'” the actress says. “He was like, ‘No, you’re dying,’ and so I went back to do that last death scene” for the Season 6 opener. Meaning, Samantha is thus far the only confirmed casualty out of more than a dozen people.
“Yep, true. I died,” Hopkins shrugs. After all, “I only have, like, normal-people skills!”
Fun Fact: Hopkins not only knows that TV son William is now in his 30s (in Season 7’s flash-forwards), she actually knows the young man.
“When I first moved to Toronto, Ben Lewis worked at this casting house, as a reader. When I ran into him last summer, he was like, ‘Hey, I was just cast as your son,’ and I was like, ‘Whaaat?!'”
https://tvline.com/gallery/anna-hopkins-photos-arrow-shadowhunters-defiance/#!6/anna-hopkins-arrow-1/