Grant Gustin of The Flash spoke about season 5 at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.

On July 21, I had the pleasure of speaking with Grant Gustin at a media session for The Flash season 5, held at San Diego Comic-Con. While at our press table, Grant teased a sequence in the season five premiere, that he’s been dreaming of doing ever since his first Barry Allen cameo on Arrow.

“We’ve got an action sequence in it,” Grant said excitedly. “It’s something straight out of the comics that when I read in 2013, when I shooting Arrow and dreaming of stuff we could do someday on Flash. We’re doing something I thought we would never be able to do. There’s a really cool action sequence,” Grant continued.

Grant was asked how he felt about season 5. “Great so far,” he said. “I think it’s going to be a really good season. It’s been really cool having Jessica (Parker Kennedy) around,” he continued.

While Iris and Barry seem happy to be meeting their daughter, Grant warned us that things may not be as they seem.

“I think at first there’s a little bit of skepticism because we’ve had people walk into the cortex before and say like they’re so-and-so and then they’re not ‘so and so’. But I think Barry and Iris just both kind of just like have a gut feeling that this is their daughter. Maybe that’s naivety. But they both feel like this is her. First of all, Jessica looks like she really could be our daughter,” Grant said.

It appears that there is also something suspicious going on between Iris and Nora.

“I think Iris is kind of thrilled and wants to get to know her and wants to connect with her, and thinks it’s great that she’s here and I think Barry is a little more wondering why. Because he fees like if this is my daughter I’d like to think that probably in the future I told her don’t time travel for fun. He’s a little concerned about why she’s here. There’s clearly a lot that she’s not telling us,” Gustin teased.

“Barry starts to pick up on some tension that she has with Iris. There’s clearly some kind of beef there. And she’s real clingy with Barry and he doesn’t know why but he can kind of tell something’s off. So it’s a mentor dynamic kind of at first I guess. He’s trying to help her figure out her powers but he wants to kind of figure out why she’s here and what not. But I think he’s kind of taking it easy because he doesn’t want… too much too fast I guess,” he concluded.

Grant then talked about the atmosphere of season 5.

“I think we’re in the pocket now. I think Jessica was a really good addition. Now Harley is permanent fixture and we’ve got Danny as a permanent fixture. I mean it’s the kind of best dynamic our cast has ever had. And yeah the first episode is really funny. I’ve been comparing it to our pilot. I think it’s our best first episode since our pilot,” he said.

“It’s funny ,it’s got a lot of the family tone. I don’t want to speak too soon but I think it could be our best season. It’s will be what Flash should be,” Grant continued.

A reporter at our table asked Grant to give his thoughts on the Barry/Iris relationship. Grant then revealed that he was one of the people who pushed the showrunners to embrace it.

“It’s been fun. It’s been a roller coaster. We didn’t get to see a lot of it but you’ve seen windows into it. They’ve been in each other’s life since they were eleven. It goes so deep I think it’s the kind of relationship everybody kind of wishes they could have.

That someone who’s been your best friend since childhood that you kind of slowly fall in love with and realize there’s nobody else that you want to be with. They’re eachother’s rock. From the very beginning, remember they entertained the idea of love stories like Barry and Caitlin? How soon do we want to do Barry and Iris? I was pushed, like ‘this is the love of his life’, ‘let’s go for that;. You know, it’s more interesting. It’s a type of relationship I think everybody would like to have,” Grant said.

What is Nora hiding? What comic sequence do you think Grant has been wanting to do since 2013? Any guesses? The Flash season 5 premieres on the CW on Oct. 9. We’ll find out then.