Stephen Amell believes he’s at fault for the failure of Fits spinoff collection Fits: LA.
The 44-year-old actor was on the Tuesday (February 24) episode of Inside You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast the place he opened up in regards to the present, which was canceled after only one season on NBC.
Michael began out by noting the final time Stephen was on the present, he was enthusiastic about Fits: LA.
“What occurred?” he requested his visitor.
“It wasn’t adequate,” Stephen mentioned bluntly.
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The host then pivoted, inquiring as as to whether or not the Arrow star thought it was adequate and admitting it’s a troublesome query to reply.
“Something that ends not in your phrases is a failure,” he responded.
Nevertheless, Stephen doesn’t contemplate it a “full failure,” as a result of he’s executed two pilots thus far and has been fortunate sufficient that each have made it to collection.
“Finally, I feel that the blame rests with me,” he continued. “I feel it does, as a result of no matter drawback you will have with the present—as a result of I feel that there have been points—nevertheless it’s my job to resolve these. To clean them over. To gloss them up with some sort of efficiency or one thing that, tangible or in any other case, covers up these errors.”
He thinks if he had executed one thing “magnetic” or “charismatic,” it could have fastened “these issues.”
“And I didn’t try this,” he continued.
Stephen mentioned he didn’t discover that along with his character Ted Black, a cocky former federal prosecutor turned leisure lawyer.
Moreover, behind the scenes, he mentioned it appeared like creator and showrunner Aaron Korsh was operating right into a wrestle with the community concerning what they wished the present to be.
“It simply appeared like what he wished to do and what they wished to do have been completely different,” he mentioned.
The actor famous they’d been looking forward to a second season to get the possibility to retool issues, however the community selected to drag the plug as an alternative.
Michael pushed again a bit on the concept it was all Stephen‘s fault, however the Heels alum argued that if it had been profitable, he’d get a “disproportionate quantity of credit score” so it’s “solely honest” if he stands in entrance and takes the blame.
“I’m the lead of the collection, and it didn’t work,” he concluded.
Nevertheless, regardless of all of that, Stephen praised the individuals he labored with and mentioned it was total a “fantastic” expertise.
The complete dialog between Michael and Stephen about Fits: LA is queued up within the video embedded under.
And the excellent news is for the Canadian-born star is that he’s already obtained a brand new venture within the works. He has been forged as David Hasselhoff‘s son in a Fox’s Baywatch reboot. Extra particulars right here!