The Flash‘s Danielle Nicolet Teases Deathstorm Endgame Reveals, Cecile’s Latest ‘Horror Movie’ Role
Team Flash is in a bad way this week, now that Not!Ronnie has revealed himself to be Deathstorm, and all as time-sick Iris is randomly vanishing/reappearing.
“Team Flash is on edge,” reports Danielle Nicolet, who plays Cecile. As seen in this Wednesday’s episode of the veteran Arrowverse series (airing at 8/7c on The CW), “Everybody’s being haunted by ‘the ghosts of grief Christmases past,” she adds. “It’s rough at S.T.A.R. Labs right about now.”
It’s perhaps hardest out there for an empath like Cecile, whose metahuman powers allow/sometimes force her to feel every nearby emotion. What’s more, her role as a veritable barometer for human emotion makes her of special interest to Deathstorm, who feeds on grief.
“We discover over this stretch of time that the reason why Cecile is the only one who didn’t get attacked by her own ‘grief monsters’ is because she’s the conduit for all of it,” Nicolet notes. “And as the story progresses, that’s all going to someplace very big. By the time we get to this three-part [storyline’s] finale, it’s going to come together into a massive level-up.”
In the meantime, Nicolet very happily found herself at the heart of this week’s frightful hour, during which Cecile volunteers to “channel” Deathstorm (akin to what she did with Despero during this season’s five-part “Armageddon” event).
“I am a totally insane horror-movie fan — I’ve seen every horror movie ever made, which is something that showrunner Eric Wallace and I have in common,” the actress shares, “so I always know that when a storyline will have a horror movie element to it, I’m going to get to do all sorts of fun stuff. Eric knows that I’ll be down for whatever, as long as I get to feel like I’m in a scary movie!”
By the time Deathstorm has said his peace via Cecile as well as to Caitlin herself, “We are absolutely going to find out what he wants, why he hasn’t been harming Caitlin much, and who he really is in the grander scheme of things,” Nicolet previews.
The sum total of those bombshells will create “a bit of a fault line in Team Flash, with us all figuring out what to do about him, because the team isn’t necessarily on the same page after this week,” says Nicolet. “We need to figure out how to work together when we don’t all agree.”
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OK why we don’t care about Cecile. She has turned into an AWFUL character and frankly I only care about the WA and Caity love Chester too must admit but Cecile they have ruined the once lovable character into a nightmare.
We don’t care about cecile. This character is annoying as hell. I used to like her but since Season 7, i just can’t stand her. She has too much screentime.
anyone who is tired of the flash redeeming and talking down villains can probably sigh a breath of relief cause it sounds like deathstorm is evil incarnate but for me personally I hope his defeat is the same as godspeed and thawne and he is taken to jail and not hell.
Matt, that’s said his “piece,” not “peace,” yes?
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This sort of homophonic mix up has gotten very common on the internet, and spell check doesn’t help. It could be a lot worse. Roger Ebert had an online column in which he talks about women in a movie “bearing their breasts,” which was a really unfortunate image, since he was talking about Amazons.
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Some of these usages stick. People are starting to speak of “honing in” instead of “homing in,” for example. That’s a well known process in language evolution. You get a couple of homophones or near homophones in an expression, and the original one gets displaced, often through popular misunderstanding. You could fume about “ignorance” and “misuse,” but fundamentally it’s just something that’s going to happen. English is a complicated creole with a messy history, and distinctions get sanded down.
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I wouldn’t say I always like it. For example, it’s now more common to write “She’s a trooper” than it is to say “She’s a trouper.” You can understand how that happened — people are more likely to hear the expression in speech than in writing, and “trooper” makes sense here. That’s reinforced when “trooper” starts to become more common in print. So that’s where things are going, and in a pragmatic sense it’s even progress, since most people don’t know the word “trouper,” so it keeps the expression meaningful.
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So fine, and I wouldn’t play King Canute here, but I do regret losing “trouper.” It isn’t purism, which ultimately becomes foolish, but a sense that something’s being lost. The original idea was that if you’re in an acting company (that is, a troupe), the company is likely to be in a precarious financial position, and you’d better not jeopardize it. If you’re playing a leading role, and you break your toe during the performance, you carry on for the sake of the troupe. The show must go on. But realistically, “trooper” does the job just as well.