ComicBook has just released an interview from Comic Con International featuring Willa! She explains Thea’s focus if she makes it out of the island, Malcolm Merlyn, Oliver’s relationship with his son and more! Sadly the interview cannot be embed, but you can watch it by clicking on the picture bellow.

Much of Team Arrow’s fate hangs in the balance after Arrow‘s earth-shattering season five cliffhanger. While fans are uncertain what to expect when the show returns this fall, one cast member has a pretty clear idea of what her character’s motivations could be going forward – if she survives the horrific blast on Lian Yu, that is.

Willa Holland, who brings to life Thea Queen/Speedy on the show, recently spoke to ComicBook.com during San Diego Comic-Con. While Holland was not able to reveal what state Thea will be in when Arrow returns in October, she shed some light on what Thea’s primary focus in season six could be. Check it out in the clip above!

“I think it can really go one of two ways for her,” Holland revealed, “especially depending on if she’s alive or not at the beginning of the season. I think that she’s just going to try to grapple with every piece of information that she’s been given over the last six months.”

According to Holland, those bombshells range quite a bit, and include the sacrifice Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) made on Thea’s behalf in the season five finale.

“She’s gotten handed a lot of information about herself, and about her family.” Holland explained. “And then also, her father just stepped on a mine for her. So I think her main focus if she were to be alive and well in the beginning of the season, would be to kind of grapple with all of that.”

Fans will just have to wait to see how Thea processes all of that – and if she is alive and well to do so – when Arrow returns to The CW in October.

A hero’s duty never ends. Is the slogan of the upcoming season of Arrow and the first trailer was released yesterday right before the cast’s panel at Comic Con International! In the trailer we get a recap on the finale episode of season 5, along with some scenes from the new episodes that feature Dinah, Laurel, Oliver, Slade (!!!) and William. Sadly, no Thea and we only get to see her running after Samantha who is looking for her and Oliver’s son, William. You can watch the trailer bellow.

The sixth season of Arrow premieres October 12 at 9/8c on The CW!

BLACK SIREN RETURNS — Black Siren (guest star Katie Cassidy) returns to help Chase (Josh Segarra). Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) organizes a birthday party for Oliver (Stephen Amell) while Lance (Paul Blackthorne) is furious after Rene (Rick Gonzalez) misses the custody hearing for his daughter.

Thea’s back!!! Our favorite character from Arrow is back for the last episodes of the season and i don’t know about you guys, but i missed seeing Willa in my screen. High definition screencaptures from the episode have been added to the gallery! I’ve also added screencaptures from episode “5.15 – Fighting Fire with Fire”.

With only five episodes left of season 5, The CW has released today a sizzle reel of what’s happening next on Arrow and yep– Thea is making a return (and hopefully will get to kick some ass).

VIGILANTE ATTACKS MAYOR QUEEN — Oliver (Stephen Amell) faces his biggest challenge yet as mayor. Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) continues down her dark path with Helix. After Vigilante attacks Oliver while he’s acting as the mayor, Diggle (David Ramsey) leads the team in a mission to stop Vigilante once and for all.

I’ve added to our gallery high definition screencaptures from this week’s episode of Arrow. Enjoy!

What’s next for Thea (Willa Holland)?
With Holland only contracted for 14 episodes this season, Thea was MIA on-screen. But with her return, “She’s headed in a direction that’s very similar to where her mother was before she was killed in Season 2,” Guggenheim previewed. “We’re excited about it; I’m actually really excited about her storyline because we’re taking her to a place where she’s been dealing with all of these issues the same way Oliver has, with her bloodlust and with her other elements of her past, and this season’s going to find her in a similar place but for very different reasons. There’s gonna be a great scene coming up between Oliver and Thea that’s one of my favorites on the show.”

The next hour is a big one.
“For me, [Episode] 14 is this fulcrum where a lot of the little seeds that had been planted in the first half of the season start to come to fruition,” Guggenheim teased. “You start to realize that oh, Prometheus has been setting up a chess board and the episode ends, I think, with sort of the next key move in Prometheus’ grand plan.”

Thea will also give her brother a pep talk in the next episode. “Thea’s gonna make a good case to Oliver, of all people, for all the things he’s accomplished as mayor,” Guggenheim previewed. “You start to see like, oh wait, in the first 13 episodes, he actually kind of did some stuff. And he’s not done yet. But we definitely went into the season with the goal of showing that Oliver is actually much better at this job than you might expect.”

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A brand new episode of Arrow aired last night and there was something very good about it– Thea’s back!!! After gone missing the past few weeks, our favorite girl made a return on last night’s episode. I’m sure you’ve all been wondering about Thea’s absence and a couple of days ago, we finally got an answer from Marc Guggenheim who revealed to TVLine that the reason that we haven’t seen Thea is because of Willa’s contract: “Everyone’s like, ‘Where’s Thea? Where’s Thea?’ Willa’s [contracted for] 14 out of 23 episodes this year. She’s not in all 23. That’s not her contract. We’ve had to write around that.” Now, i don’t know about you guys but i’m hoping that the contract change means that Willa is eyeing some new projects.

High definition screencaptures from the episode have been added to the gallery, and we’ve also replaced the current episode stills with their high quality versions.