{"id":304084,"date":"2021-07-21T04:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/john-wesley-shipp-on-jay-getting-his-speed-back-playing-mentor-to-bart\/"},"modified":"2021-07-21T04:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T01:00:34","slug":"john-wesley-shipp-on-jay-getting-his-speed-back-playing-mentor-to-bart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/john-wesley-shipp-on-jay-getting-his-speed-back-playing-mentor-to-bart\/","title":{"rendered":"#John Wesley Shipp on Jay Getting His Speed Back & Playing Mentor to Bart"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#John Wesley Shipp on Jay Getting His Speed Back & Playing Mentor to Bart<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Flash<\/em> Season 7 Finale \u201cHeart of the Matter, Part 2.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do you stop replicas of a god of speed? With a team of speedsters. Barry (Grant Gustin), his wife Iris (Candice Patton) \u2014 with a jolt from the Speed Force \u2014 as well as their kids from the future, Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) and Bart (Jordan Fisher<\/a>), and Jay Garrick (John Wesley Shipp<\/a>) team up to take on the Godspeed clones in The Flash<\/em> finale.<\/p>\n

Then, to stop Godspeed himself, Barry teams up with the enemy, Thawne (Tom Cavanagh). In the end, Godspeed\u2019s locked up (and his memory of Barry\u2019s identity is erased), and Thawne is still out there to be a thorn in the Flash\u2019s side in the future. But the season ends on a happ<\/a>y note, with everyone gathered for Barry and Iris\u2019 vow renewal.<\/p>\n

Shipp, who played Barry Allen in the \u201990s CBS show The Flash<\/em>, breaks down the finale and teases what could be ahead if we see Jay again in Season 8. Plus, he teases his upcoming appearance in Stargirl<\/em><\/a> Season 2.<\/p>\n

Thirty years later, and we\u2019re still seeing you as The Flash, which is awesome. <\/strong><\/p>\n

John Wesley Shipp: <\/strong>[Laughs<\/em>] It\u2019s a trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking of, Jay gets his speed back, then everything goes down with the Godspeed clones, and he\u2019s immedia<\/a>tely back in the fight and using his helmet in such an awesome way in the finale. So it\u2019s just like riding a bike for him, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes! One thing that was so fantastic is Jay gets to use a power, and what a great concept to have each superhero get to use a new spin on their power that we haven\u2019t seen them use before. And of course, with Jay, it\u2019s the helmet. What fun, to get to do something other than be beat up or dragged through the woods, to actually do something and be effective as a member of the team and helping to solve the Godspeed War. That was a lot of fun. I also thought that was a brilliant idea to give everybody a new power that they get to exercise in that War.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Bettina Strauss\/The CW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And I liked the little tap on the helmet after.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, they kept that in the bing on the helmet? Oh, great, good. Because you never know. That\u2019s the peril of doing these interviews is that you know what you did and you know what you meant to do, but you don\u2019t know what they shot and you had no idea what they edit in or edit out. So I\u2019m delighted to hear that they kept [that in].<\/p>\n

Because all of that happens in such a short period of time, does Jay know what\u2019s next for him as a speedster? Back to the usual?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We know that change is constant and the speed went away once. It could go away again, we don\u2019t know, but for now, both John and Jay are loving the fact that he has use of his powers. I got to tell you, that cane worried me. [Laughs<\/em>] I was like, \u201cOh no, come on.\u201d When I was talking to [showrunner] Eric [Wallace] about coming back for these last two episodes, he said, \u201cJay gets his speed back.\u201d And I said, \u201cSay no more. You got me. Say no more. That\u2019s enough. That\u2019s what I wanted to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the second thing was that I would have the opportunity to play a mentor-prot\u00e9g\u00e9 relationship that I missed with Wally [Keiynan Lonsdale<\/a>]. It went in a different direction. I get to play some of that with Bart because Bart and Jay have this amazing connection, which is also cool because it\u2019s based on a lived history that Jay hasn\u2019t experienced yet. So in the finale, when Bart comes to Jay with this energy and calls him Uncle Jay, Jay\u2019s delighted, but he doesn\u2019t quite understand where all that\u2019s coming from because he hasn\u2019t lived it yet. What a fascinating concept.<\/p>\n

\"Jay<\/p>\n

Bettina Strauss\/The CW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I loved that conversation between Jay and Bart in the finale because we heard about that relationship with the conversation that Bart had with Nora in the previous episode.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And wasn\u2019t that beautiful? Oh my God. That broke my heart. He totally sold that relationship.<\/p>\n

Being an uncle is new for Jay, but he\u2019s coming into this role though that Bart and Nora know him in already.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exactly! I couldn\u2019t have put it any better myself. They know me in a role based on a lived history that I haven\u2019t experienced yet. That just blows my actor\u2019s mind. It\u2019s so cool.<\/p>\n

And for all Jay knows, he\u2019s going to live that again, coming up in the future, depending on what happens with Barry and Iris and kids.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Right. Yeah. And there could be payoff for the intrinsic closeness that exists between Bart and Jay [in the future]. We find out Jay was impulsive, like Bart is, when Jay was younger and having lived decades and decades and learned some things, when Bart goes to do something, he knows the root of it and maybe knows how to temper it a little bit better than someone as close as his own father Barry might be able to. [I think] there [could be] a very special relationship that develops between Bart and Joan [Michelle Harrison] and Jay.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Bettina Strauss\/The CW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Speed Force looks like his wife and he just says that she looks like someone very close to him. Would anything faze Jay at this point?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like, \u201cyou look like someone very familiar to me.\u201d But he knows so much about the Speed Force and if he has any value to the team, it\u2019s because of that, his experience with the Speed Force and the different developments and the hypercollider and how we used it to get past the superluminal wall. And then we use it in another way in the finale. His experience in this world is what he has to offer.<\/p>\n

[If Jay returns], there will be challenges. You see it in the finale \u2014 Jay\u2019s like, \u201cUncle, OK, that\u2019s new. I like it.\u201d But he doesn\u2019t really know how to manage that role. So there may be some surprises down the road in that respect.<\/p>\n

The season ends on a very happy note, with Barry and Iris\u2019 vow renewal. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It was great to have everybody there, and it was terrific to have so many speedsters fighting in the field together, in the Godspeed War. The pictures that I\u2019ve seen released, where we\u2019re all out there together, what a comic book lover\u2019s dream to see that happen. And certainly the wedding \u2014 we all got to be in civilian clothes. We got to end on a happy note and on love and reconnecting and recommitment and on an emotional note.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Bettina Strauss\/The CW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I think it\u2019s one thing that The Flash<\/em> has done very well \u2014 and this was particularly in the first season \u2014 it balanced an action-adventure superhero, ride-at-the-amusement-park, leaping tall buildings in a single bound kind of massive entertainment with heart moments or moments that hit the heart. Combining those two is where Flash<\/em> is at its best. And we got \u2019em. When I read the last two episodes, I was counting the special effects and I was like, \u201cWow, OK, they\u2019re going all out.\u201d But they end on a moment that speaks to the heart. And I think it\u2019s balancing those two things that make The Flash<\/em> the show that it is.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to see you over on Stargirl<\/em> in Season 2. Is there anything you can tease about that? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes! All I can say is everybody, start watching Stargirl<\/em> on August 10. I\u2019m in the ninth episode. Don\u2019t wait for me. It\u2019s a great new show that has a new show energy and it\u2019s unique. I loved working with Luke Wilson, Lou Ferrigno Jr. working with all these people. Geoff Johns was on the set every day. It actually felt like one of the early seasons of The Flash<\/em>, when everybody was there. And I gotta tell you, it\u2019s got a great energy around it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what people use to say about The Flash<\/em>. They\u2019d say, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s a new version. It\u2019s a younger Barry Allen. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to watch it, the CW Flash<\/em>.\u201d And I said, \u201cI have one request. Watch the premiere and then make up your mind.\u201d Well, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to say about Stargirl<\/em>. Because I think unless I am much mistaken I think it\u2019s going to be a big hit.<\/p>\n

The Flash<\/em>, Season 8 Premiere, Tuesday, November 16, 8\/7c, The CW<\/strong><\/p>\n

DC\u2019s Stargirl<\/em>, Season 2 Premiere, Tuesday, August 10, 8\/7c, The CW<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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