Arrow season 4 will feature new love interests for both Queen siblings.
Elysia Rotaru will play Oliver’s season 4 love interest. However, Olicity fans need not worry — Oliver’s love interest will recur throughout the season 4 flashbacks.
“Oliver is gonna have a love interest in the past that will serve as a parallel or potentially a contrast to his love affair with Felicity in the present,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim told EW.
According to Guggenheim, season 4 “pick[s] up basically in real time. It’s been a number of months later since the last flashback. Oliver is in Coast City, as eagle-eyed viewers noted when he boarded the boat at the end of season 3,” meaning Rotaru’s character likely lives there. Further details about the character are being kept quiet for now.
Rotaru’s previous roles have included iZombie, Supernatural and Hellcats.
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Meanwhile, Parker Young will play Thea’s present day love interest, Alex Davis, reports ET. Alex is being described as “a smart and driven young man, who will work for Oliver Queen and become a potential love interest for Thea.”
With Colton Haynes’ Roy Harper departing Arrow as a series regular in season 3, the door has been left open for a new love interest for Thea — though we hope she remembers that her most recent love interest turned out to be a spy for the League of Assassins.
Young’s credits include Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, Suburgatory and Enlisted.
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Finally, in other exciting news, TheWrap is reporting that Rutina Wesley is in talks to join Arrow season 4 for a multi-episode arc, though further details about her character have not been revealed.
Wesley is perhaps best known for her role in True Blood; she is currently starring in the final episodes of Hannibal.
Arrow season 4 premieres Wednesday, October 7 at 8:00 p.m. ET on The CW.