Deadline reports that Candice Patton has been cast in the key role of Iris West in the Flash TV show pilot. In the comics, reporter Iris West was Barry Allen’s girlfriend, then wife throughout the Silver Age of comics. She’ll begin the TV show as Barry’s “fast-talking, quick-witted best friend.”
Patton joins Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, Jesse L. Martin as her father Detective West, Rick Cosnet as Detective Eddie Thawne (probably the Reverse Flash in disguise), and Danielle Panabaker as scientist Caitlin Snow (probably the future Killer Frost).
I’ve never seen Ms Patton, but she has intelligent eyes – I like that!
She looks nothing like a Don Heck or Irv Novick drawing, but that’s okay.
I don’t know her as an actress, so I can’t comment on that. She’s not how I imagine Iris, but I guess she could make it work.
She’s good looking, but hopefully she can back it up with good acting. I’m still on the fence about the race change.
Change in ethnicity could not bother me less. As long as she can act, I’m very happy. She’s stunning.
I need to see her “I’m pissed off at you for being late” face.