Marc Guggenheim recently spoke with Access Hollywood to discuss the new season of Arrow and fresh face Curtis, played by Echo Kellum. The executive producer stated, "Curtis is an Olympic-caliber athlete, and that's all well and good, and certainly makes him more suited to do this than say I am, but it's still a tall order and that's something that we've always wanted to acknowledge in the storytelling. You should definitely anticipate poor Curtis taking his share of licks because he's got a long road ahead of him."