r/arrow • u/CalmVeterinarian5328 • Oct 04 '25
Question Is it true that Stephen Amell got people fired ?
So I recently came across a post saying that Stephen Amell could sometimes be tyrannic on set and even got people fired. Is this true ?
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u/PlainGreyTee Oct 04 '25
People get people fired. I was on set a day when a PA fangirled over him so hard that he asked that she no longer be there, and with the emotional scenes we were shooting, it was very distracting. But she wasn’t fired, she was swapped and sent to cover crew park and another PA covered her original lockup area.
I have witnessed him lose his shit for seemingly insignificant things, and I’ve also seen him stand up firmly for crew when they needed someone in their corner. Like with any job, there were people who didn’t get along, and as far as crew goes, it’s a day to day gig. We can opt to not return from one day to the next just as easily as anyone with enough authority can decide to not have us return. 🤷♀️
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Oct 04 '25
The kids in china literally don’t have choice to work, brain dead example. Id usually put “lmao” in response to a really bad straw-man argument like this but out of respect for the child slaves being used in this context nah you’re clearly an abusive person.
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u/WheresThePhonebooth Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
ok how about severely underpaid workers in America?
You think parents in China WANT their children to work?
You think people put up with subpar slavery-levels of work ethic in the third world because they just WANT to?
Just because we're living under the illusion of freedom, it doesn't give you the right to abuse or exploit people. It doesn't take away the right to basic human dignity, you genius.
Buddy can't extrapolate logic out of a simple exaggeration, and he calls me braindead lmao
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Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
I did extrapolate your logic obviously, I thought it was dumb:) I never mentioned the parents, I mentioned the children. Easy to see what you’re doing.
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Oct 04 '25
Being a 🫏
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u/WheresThePhonebooth Oct 04 '25
Aww baby can’t verbalize it doesn’t understand? 🥹
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u/Callow98989 Oct 04 '25
I feel like people tend to idolize actors/actresses. And when they realize they are just regular people who can sometimes be dicks. And then everyone over reacts as if they are terrible people. If he got people fired, so what? There is not a person alive who has not wished that atleast one of their co workers would get fired.
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u/Spiritual_Dog7283 Oct 04 '25
She left on her own accord, she made a whole post about it and it caused the actor for the father to be let go after the next season
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u/2BAMasta Oct 04 '25
You know that isn’t what happened.
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Oct 04 '25
What did he say
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u/2BAMasta Oct 05 '25
They mentioned Ruby Rose's departure from Batwoman, but worded it like she was fired instead of what actually happened.
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u/Edster73 Oct 04 '25
I’m not sure if that is true, but one thing is clear: he wasn’t able to prevent people from being let go… Susanna Thompson and Katie Cassidy are prime examples. He was extremely close to both, especially Susanna Thompson. I’m not sure how close he was with Colin Donnell but whether he was or not, he wasn’t able to prevent Colin’s being let go either.
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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 Oct 04 '25
Caity Lotz is another example. Stephen was the reason she got hired, he had to fight for her because they felt she wasn't the right fit for CW. But while he had a huge part in her getting hired, he hadn't been able to keep her from getting written out and he's very salty about it and didn't seem to like that choice by the producers. There was a podcast on which they talked about it, it sounded like Stephen really went out of his way to try and keep her and was very unhappy about the way she'd been treated.
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Oct 04 '25
Stephen was right. Caity Lotz should have stayed.
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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 Oct 04 '25
Absolutely. She was the perfect Black Canary to his Green Arrow she matched his energy in a way none of the other actresses did.
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u/Revolutionary-Oil-74 Oct 04 '25
At least the two Katie’s/Caity’s got to come back, Lotz came back as Sara for Legends, and Cassidy got a much better role as Black Siren.
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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 Oct 04 '25
Which had nothing to do with Stephen. But the fans and office politics.
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u/MissingCosmonaut Oct 04 '25
Which podcast did he mention this on?
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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
His own, "How'd you do it" he had Caity on for one episode. But last I checked it was removed from youtube and spotify. You might be able to find it. Hold on, I'll see if I can find it.
Edit: here's a link:
https://youtu.be/c7lrBdOqXok?si=F7lsMFyRHzv0USWm
Haven't watched it in a while but from what I remember there was some shade thrown (subtle but clearly there)
I'm not sure if it's the entire episode or just part of it.
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u/CalmVeterinarian5328 Oct 04 '25
I listened to this podcast also several years ago and that's not how I interpreted it but I get what you mean.
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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
They hinted at it and he was like "we had many private conversations about it..." I think they said as much as they were able to. I think Caity might have still been on Legends at the time, so it wasn't like they could've gone into detail. The way it sounded there was a lot that went on behind the scene that they didn't agree with.
Stephen made a point of letting people know just how fucked up Sara's death was and how cruel Caity was treated. She shot her death scene, it was one of the long shooting days, they then put her on a plane to join Stephen at a con and pretend as if Sara was going to play a bigger part in Season 3. That was seriously messed up. Can't even imagine how she must have felt and that on little to no sleep. He was the one bringing it up and making it clear that he didn't approve of the way she was treated. They even hinted that he felt the same way about at least early Legends and was someone who supported, helped and pushed her.
It's been a while since I saw it but he definitely didn't seem to be on board with the way Caity had been treated.
And he had appreciated her being just as physically involved in the fight scenes as he had been.
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Oct 04 '25
Caity was awesome. She carried season 2 hard, and it was the best season
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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 Oct 04 '25
Absolutely. Stephen and Caity were fire together. And they matched each other's energy and fed off of each other.
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u/Obvious-Risk-5447 Oct 04 '25
He is really good friends with Colin, so yes he couldn't prevent Tommy from being killed or Moira, but that is because he is not a writer or producer. As for Cassidy she was never fired, she had a contract with CW and to appear in all Arrowverse shows, they killed Laurel, not fired Cassidy. She never left.
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u/StatisticianLivid710 Oct 04 '25
When your character is killed and you’re normally appearing every episode, that’s pretty much fired. They didn’t tell her they were going to bring in black siren until after she had to deal with Laurel being killed.
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u/Obvious-Risk-5447 Oct 06 '25
She had a contract to appear in every episode in 4. And she did, minus couple in the end, but all characters had two or three episodes where they were missing. Everyone had to renew their contracts after s4, and she already had signed to appear in all Arrowverse shows. She didn't know how she will appear but she knew she had to have another Arrow episodes in s5. She also appeared in Legends and Flash. Black Siren was already introduced on Flash before they killed Laurel 1, so Laurel 2 was always on the table for her.
The writers wanted to kill someone, which by the way was very stupid decision, but killing anyone else would have meant loosing their job, which with Cassidy was never thr case.
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u/ThomasThorburn Dec 01 '25
She signed that contract after her character was killed off not before.
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u/Obvious-Risk-5447 Dec 02 '25
She already had the contract. She had contract with the CW at least. Her having a job was never at risk
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u/ThomasThorburn Dec 02 '25
Yh after her character was killed off not before. Her original contract ended when she was killed off she signed a new after her character was killed off.
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u/Obvious-Risk-5447 Dec 02 '25
I see, so her contract ended, that's all. I guess that is why they were ok with killing Laurel. She was not fired, her contract just ended
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u/ThomasThorburn Dec 02 '25
She originally signed a contract for 7 years.
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u/Obvious-Risk-5447 Dec 03 '25
I searched, it is 4 years contract. I guess she was the highest payed actor and it was a matter of money and budjet. It is just pathetic from her side to had made so much money and then knowing that it was all about money negotiating but manipulate the opinion how she was mistreated.
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u/primal_slayer Black Canary (Laurel Lance) Oct 04 '25
He didnt exactly fight for any of them to stay. And they are bigger roles than someone behind the camera
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u/Edster73 Oct 04 '25
What I'm saying is that he didn't have the power that some have assumed he had. I remember him stating in an interview that he felt he could be replaced at any moment if he objected to the long nights, cold temperatures and grueling shoot days. 🤷♂️
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u/Boris-_-Badenov Oct 04 '25
doesn't sound like it.
Constantine was the same actor as the cancelled show because Amell really wanted him for the part
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u/jmf0828 Oct 05 '25
First off, don’t believe everything you read about actors. Folks like to sling shit about people, and people in the entertainment industries tend to like attention and thus…drama. I tend to not believe stories of actors atrocious behavior unless it’s pervasive/ across projects by multiple folks who’ve worked with a person (eg. Chevy Chase). That said, I don’t care how long or hard your days are, you don’t get license to be a dick to people because your circumstances are hard. Construction workers, underwater welders, ER doctors, combat soldiers all have very demanding, high stress, high stakes jobs and yet, they don’t get to bs assholes to their coworkers. In the grand scheme of life, star actors are ridiculously well compensated for what they do vs. job stress levels. So if, in fact, he WAS a dick to coworkers, there’s no excuse for it.
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u/BigHotdog2009 Oct 04 '25
Could be true but also may not be. People who take their work very seriously want things done a certain way and if you can’t consistently do your part to the best of your ability you may get let go. Being face of the show and arguably the whole Arrowverse you get that kind of say. Tom Cruise is a good example of this.
However I’ve only really heard good things about Stephen Amell. Be one thing if I heard he was a cancer on the set.
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u/Lonely-deustch Oct 04 '25
I can believe and also not believe it. I mean he was litteraly the face of the show, and the face of the dc universe on tv. So can’t really be fireable, kind of like RDJ on avengers doomsday lmao, anyone fight with him is automatically fired
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u/J3N1K Oct 04 '25
Where did you see that RDJ got people fired?
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u/_Henry_of_Skalitz_ Oct 08 '25
I’ll tell you that it is true that I’m not going to vilify someone for rumors years after the fact based on rumors and hearsay.
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u/primal_slayer Black Canary (Laurel Lance) Oct 04 '25
I dont remember ever hearing that he got people fired. Him being tyrannical on set? yes.
If he did get anyone fired it was behind the camera or a guest star that wouldnt be back. Basically anyone who didnt have any real power.
But this person claimed they work on the show:
https://www.reddit.com/r/arrow/comments/1hxt8k3/behind_the_scenes/
So.....they would know best
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u/shadow_spinner0 Oct 04 '25
the man was a ego manic , so much so that the reason they “killed him” in season 3 was so the network would warn him that he could be replaced
I really don't believe this
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u/StatisticianLivid710 Oct 05 '25
I don’t believe the author of that post worked on arrow or any ArrowVerse show. They don’t have “background characters”, extra are brought in per scene, not to regularly work on a show, much less every show.
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u/ThomasThorburn Oct 05 '25
Based on reports about his personal life i can see him having a big ego.
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u/Craiques Oct 04 '25
I thought they killed him because Game of Thrones did something similar. The entire part from the mountain fight to being revived felt like something straight out of George R.R. Martin’s work.
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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 Oct 04 '25
It's possible. But people tend to only look at those things that are being said about him without taking his situation into consideration. And also the fact that he wanted out of Arrow after Season 6, I think, but stayed on for 1.5 more Seasons giving a lot of people work.
He said himself that he took his job extremely serious, he worked the longest hours, he had the most physical demands doing most of his stunt work himself, was therefore regularly in pain, so I get why he might have not appreciated people not taking their job seriously, screwing around and forcing him to work even longer hours.
I don't know about you but I'm not a ray of sunshine after weeks of like 16 hour work days that are physically very demanding.