The casting process can be fast and furious. For example, when casting the role of Barry Allen aka The Flash, with my office, we considered over 2,500 candidates for the lead role. The Producers of Arrow, who are also producing the Flash pilot, alerted us to a potential Arrow spin-off in late April. I started working on lists for up and coming actors, actors I had previously auditioned, actors I’d seen in movies, on tv, on stage, in commercials, in magazines, on youtube, vine, you name it. In late July we received sides for the new character and began our search. The search started by releasing a breakdown of the character to agents and managers all around the world. We requested self tapes from actors in Australia, the UK, Canada and across the US. We had thousands of submissions. We began reading local actors on tape in July and by August we had narrowed our search to three actors who we screen tested on camera at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank.