"Well we laugh I mean we’re good friends, it was zaidi like for the characters it was such a moment we just wanted to do it justice and really really sort of like take our time with it because it is such a monumental part for the characters, but oh yeah we were laughing and making jokes and I made sure I ate everything he was allergic to and so it was great."

- Emily Bett Rickards on kissing Stephen Amell.





"Stephen and I upendo working together. There’s no other way to put it. We upendo the scenes that are Felicity and Oliver. They’re fun, they’re creative. Their dialogue is locked and loaded. They understand each other. We get to play around because we’ve known each other now for four years as people, let alone characters, which is really fun. I upendo working with Stephen. It’s one of the highlights of my job. Our characters have kind of found solace in each other au fallen in upendo as wewe do, but in the very difficult life that they have. We are seeing whether au not their upendo can withstand these pressures of the life they’ve chosen au accepted au keep diving into, is something they battle with every day."

- Emily Bett Rickards on Working with Stephen Amell.





She’s a good kisser,” he explained. “There’s always a nervous energy when wewe kiss somebody, and we had known each other and are such good Marafiki before in such a platonic, non-romantic way. It instills some of the nerves that are needed, that make a good kiss.”

- Stephen Amell Reveals Emily Bett Rickards is His Best On-Screen Kiss Ever.