The Walking Dead's Emily Kinney will be making her debut in another comic book adaptation this week, as she guest stars on The Flash

Emily Kinney as Brie Larvan in The Flash.

Emily Kinney.

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Kinney plays Brie Larvan, a villain inspired by the DC Comics character The Bug-Eyed Bandit. In the episode, both Ray Palmer/The Atom (Brandon Routh) and Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) visit Central City, only to be caught up in some nasty plans Larvan has.I spoke to Kinney about appearing on The Flash and its larger world of DC Comics on TV.Yeah, like you said it was very different, but I found it to be really fun, just in the kind of character I got to play, and like you said, the tone of the show is different. Beth was very sweet and strong and kindhearted and Brie is so very different -- and we were shooting [The Walking Dead] in Georgia, outside in the heat and its humid and a very specific kind of environment. Now I’m working on this show and being on these awesome sets with all the special effects and cool costumes and cool make up. It was very different but something I was really excited to do. I was excited to be on a different set and tap into a different part of my personality and play the bad guy. I found it very exciting.Brie is definitely…. she’s out for revenge. Her career was kind of halted and stalled when she got fired from her job and now she’s taking all of her computer skills and she makes these little mechanical bees and she uses the bees to cause problems for everyone and get revenge. But she’s very smart. She’s very sharp. You’ll see her costume is amazing. She dresses very sharp and sexy. She’s also very isolated. A lot of the things that she’ll do on the show Tuesday is from her little beehive cave. She’s always talking to these mechanical bees and they’re just computer bees. So she’s also a kind of person who is very isolated.I don’t know that there’s a history between her and Felicity, but when Brie is sending these bees out, Felicity is the one who is trying to counteract what she’s doing on the computer in this fight that you’ll see. And they’re very well matched because obviously Felicity is very smart, so they end up becoming sort of these rivals.I think they decided, or at least I felt like it was for me, looking at the costumes that they ended up making for Brie, that they really wanted to be it’s own thing. They’re using the Bug-Eyed Bandit for inspiration but we’re kind of creating a new character. The thing with the costume, you’ll see, it’s nothing like the comics you’ve seen for The Bug-Eyed Bandit. They kind of took the liberty to make this whole new character.Yeah. From my time working on this show, I had such a great time and it’s such a great group of people. The Flash is awesome and has so many great actors and they have a fanbase that’s so supportive. One thing that an actor always wants is an audience that will see your work. I think that’s so exciting for all of these shows, that they have this welcoming and excited audience. Of course, you never know what could happen. It’d be cool to work on the shows more.Yeah, I feel like watching the show has definitely helped but even trusting the director was important for me too. There’s a lot of times when I’m talking to bees and they weren’t even real bees. It would just be like talking into my hand. I had to kind of trust the director and other people on set. Also I think it’s important, when you’re a guest on the set, to the regulars and to really see them as leaders and see how they are taking on certain things. That was kind of my approach.

The Flash airs Tuesday at 8:00pm ET/PT on the CW.Eric Goldman is Executive Editor of IGN TV. You can follow him on Twitter at @EricIGN , IGN at ericgoldman-ign and Facebook at Facebook.com/TheEricGoldman