Arrow EP Describes Attempts To Get Smallville‘s Justin Hartley On The Show

In an interview with the Fake Nerd Podcast (via ComicBook.com), Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim spoke about his attempts to get Smallville‘s Justin Hartley, who played Oliver Queen on that show, to appear on the CW series.

He said: “I’ll tell you, Justin is someone that I’ve been trying to get on Arrow for years. I did send down the request, ‘Could we borrow the costume from the archives?’ They said yes, but they said yes with a lot of caveats, not the least of which is, ‘No one can wear it,’ and ‘You can’t get it dirty.’ So we put it on a dummy, so thereby we satisfied that loophole, and as far as not getting it dirty, hopefully whoever at the archives provided it to us never actually saw that episode.“