The Iris West/Candice Patton Thread

One of many casting announcements.







On IMDB



Casting Call:

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IRIS - 22-28 - African-American - As smart as she is beautiful, Iris is in grad school studying psychology. She's also Barry's mile a minute, fast-talking, quick-witted best friend. Her father, Detective West, took in Barry when his mother was murdered, and his father was wrongly accused and imprisoned for her murder. In a tough childhood for Barry, she was the one "not tough" thing. She's unaware of Barry's strong feelings for her.

Dialogue from the Audition Video:

Here on Reddit

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The video was already deleted, but someone in /co/ typed it up before it happened. IRIS: Are you ready for the big turn-on? Because I agreed to go with you to this Atom-Smasher's smashing, and in return you agreed I get to pick the next five times we go to the movies. Hope you like Channing Tatum, because you two are going to be very close soon. BARRY: Iris, I don't know if I'm going to make it. Your dad kinda' tore me a new one some minutes ago, actually. IRIS: But seeing this thing go on is, like, your dream. Your sad nerdy little dream. BARRY: It could change everything we know about the Universe. Electron particles crashing into another at high speeds... IRIS: Do we really need to stand next to it when it happens? BARRY: Statistically speaking, any danger is almost an impossibility. IRIS: Aren't you the one who believes in the impossible? That's why you went looking for it in Starling City, wasn't it? Did you find it, or did you make my dad mad for no reason? BARRY: I found... a girl. I mean, I met one. IRIS: A girl? Good for you! When was the last time you went on a date? All you do is hang out with me. BARRY: About that. While I was away, I got the chance to think about, you know, us... You're my best friend, Iris. IRIS: You're mine too. Why else would I be here? BARRY: That's not what I meant. What I meant was... IRIS: I know what you're gonna say, Barry. BARRY: I'm not sure you do. IRIS: Even though we pretty much grew up in the same house and we're kind of brother and sister, we're not really brother and sister, so it can get really weird and awkward talking to me about girls. But I want you to know it shouldn't be awkward, because there is nothing that I want more than for you to meet the right person that totally loves and adores you for the amazing guy that you are. BARRY: ... Took the words right out of my mouth. IRIS: Aren't you glad I know you so well? and IRIS: I'm not thirsty. BARRY: It'll keep your hands warm, at least. IRIS: Thanks. BARRY: You okay? IRIS: I... Don't know what that word means anymore after what I just saw, that we saw... How many people? BARRY: Iris... IRIS: How many? BARRY: Twelve. We'll catch the Trickster, whoever he is... IRIS: That's really fantastic, Barry! You get on that, you catch him! Put him on trial, put him in jail. Let him wake up every morning and eat breakfast and see the Sun unlike that little girl he slaughtered in the street! BARRY: You're right. It's not fair. But it is what makes us not them. IRIS: There's something else. BARRY: What? IRIS: I swear that I saw something. A flick of light, gust of wind, something that pulled one of the families out of the way of the debris. It was the way that you described it that night. What you saw in your house, the way that your mother was killed. BARRY: Iris, I was just a scared kid, I don't know what I saw... IRIS: You told me a million times that what you saw was impossible. Today, I saw the impossible, too. And for the first time, I really believed you.