Note: This article contains spoilers for Arrow season 8, episode 4 'Present Tense', which aired in the US last night (November 5).
Arrow's latest episode, season 8's 'Present Tense', aired in the United States last night and featured one of the show's most emotional moments to date.
Thanks to The Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) and some time travel shenanigans (and it's only going to get even more sci-fi when the crossover hits), the future version of William got to meet his father, Oliver Queen.
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Since Oliver is dead in the future, this meant that William finally got the chance to tell his dad that he was gay, years after he came out to everyone else. It's an interesting twist on something many LGBTQ+ people go through, and the stars of the show couldn't be prouder.
Sharing an Entertainment Weekly interview with Future William actor Ben Lewis on Twitter, leading man Stephen Amell wrote: "My favorite scene of this season. So lucky to share it with @benlewishere."
Lewis himself also told EW that Amell had previously told him that it was one of his favourite scenes that he's ever filmed.
"For him to say that was so gratifying and so meaningful for me," Lewis added. "Once I saw it in ADR, I felt really proud...
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"To have a second chance to go back in time and in your 30s after you've been living as a proud out gay man for at least 15 years was a really interesting, extremely unique thing to play," Lewis added.
"There’s a regular coming out scene and then there's this, which [has] the layers of time travel and grief over the loss of a parent, and then the mind-blowing experience of being reunited with that dead parent.
"It’s really wild. I knew that dramatically, there was so much to play there and I was hungry to play it.
"I also knew how meaningful that scene was to me as an out gay person myself, and I knew that it would mean a lot to the Arrow audience and fanbase generally who have watched William grow up on the show, but specifically the LGBTQ fan base within the greater family, if that makes sense."
Fun fact: The Arrow Wiki lists one of William's abilities as being a "capable cook" because "he made cookies once".
Arrow season 8 airs on Tuesdays at 9/8c on The CW in the US. In the UK, it airs on Sky One and NOW TV.
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