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Article Name Arrow star Stephen Amell once dared John Barrowman to fart in his mouth during one of the show’s most pivotal scenes
“Fart in my mouth and prove it”: Inside the Arrow adlib that sent shockwaves through the entire set
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There has been lots of intense dialogue between Oliver Queen and Malcolm Merlyn on Arrow. However, it turns out that their best exchange never made it onscreen. John Barrowman, who played Malcolm Merlyn, recalls a conversation he had with series lead Stephen Amell which is more shocking than anything their Arrowverse characters ever said.
“We were filming in a quarry,” Barrowman says during a panel at Dragon Con. “I was standing in the background with my mouth open in the Dark Archer gear. We were going to the Lazarus Pit, and we had been fighting, and Stephen was carrying Thea to take her to the Lazarus Pit to get her reborn again. And Stephen and Willa [Holland] were filming, and I was in the background, I can’t remember who was next to me.”
At this point of the story, Emily Bett Rickards outed herself as his co-conspirator. “I was trying to keep you out of it, but thank you though,” Barrowman jokes.
“We were trying to talk but not move a muscle because the camera might be able to see us. Stephen’s right there, they’re filming, and I go, ‘Emily, I’ve got to fart.’ And she goes, ‘Well, just do it. Don’t worry about it, just don’t make a stinky one.’ And I go, ‘Don’t worry, because mine don’t smell.’ And they go ‘cut,’ and we had been chatting away, and Stephen just turns around and goes, ‘Fart in my mouth and prove it.’ Both of us were mortified, because we thought we had been whispering.”
Did Barrowman actually do it? The actor isn’t saying. “Did I prove it? That’s for me to know and you to find out. If you see Stephen, you can ask him personally.”
If anyone of you ever attend a panel with Stephen Amell, you now have a fun story you can ask him during the audience question and answer portion. We need to get to the bottom (no pun intended) of this.
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