John Diggle has been Oliver Queen’s best friend and mentor for five seasons now, and the dynamic between the two heroes works because Diggle is good at holding his emotions together during tough times. But the dynamic will be reversed in season 6, and it looks like Oliver will be the one providing support to Diggle.
David Ramsey recently spoke to CBR, and he said that Diggle will be broken in a way that we’ve never seen before when “Arrow” returns in the fall.
“We have to break Diggle. I think Season 6 we’ll see Diggle get broken in a way he hasn’t been broken before. It already starts in [the first episode], and I think there’s a certain amount of it that will continue throughout the season. I think it’s an arc for Diggle that we haven’t seen, even beyond his brother coming back to life and killing his evil brother and that leading to the death of the Canary.”
It’s already been teased that Diggle “will lose some things” in “Arrow” season 6, and David Ramsey noted that Diggle’s situation will “greatly affect the whole team.”
“The explosion profoundly affects Diggle, emotionally and physically. I shadowed [director] James Bamford for episode 6.01. (If the gods allow it, and Greg Berlanti allows it, we’ll see if I direct.) In shadowing him, I went back to the island and was shown what happened in the explosion. You’re going to really like what happens to Diggle.”
Sounds like season 6 is going to be very rough for Diggle.
“Arrow” will return on Thursday, October 12.
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the North China Sea. He returned home to Star City, bent on righting the wrongs done by his family and fighting injustice.
As the Green Arrow, he protects his city with the help of former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), computer-science expert Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), his vigilante-trained sister Thea Queen (Willa Holland), Deputy Mayor Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne), brilliant inventor Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum), and his new recruits, street-savvy Rene Ramirez (Rick Gonzalez) and meta-human Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy).
Oliver has finally solidified and strengthened his crime-fighting team only to have it threatened when unexpected enemies from his past return to Star City, forcing Oliver to rethink his relationship with each member of his “family”.
