Collider – The CW series The Flash is kicking off its eighth season with a five-part event called “Armageddon,” in which a powerful and mysterious alien threat arrives on Earth promising the end of the world. Barry (Grant Gustin), Iris (Candice Patton) and the rest of Team Flash are up against a ticking clock with time running out and in order to save humanity, they will need to enlist the help of some of their other super friends.

With one of those superheroes to the rescue being Mia Smoak, aka Green Arrow, Collider got the opportunity to chat 1-on-1 with Katherine McNamara, the actress who first brought the character to life on Arrow. During the interview, she talked about how it was a dream come true to reprise her role as Mia, what it was like to see her character through the eyes of the creative team on The Flash, having kept up with training on her own during the pandemic, and what fans can expect to see from her in “Armageddon.” She also discussed teaming up with Alcon PRECISION1 contact lenses and how they’ve helped her vision, especially when it comes to safely pulling off the badass stunts she’s become known for.

Collider: First of all, I think it’s so interesting that you’ve teamed up with Alcon and their PRECISION1 contact lenses. How did that come about? Why was it important to you, especially when it comes to your work and the stunts that you do, to find the right contact lenses, and what made them the right fit for you?
KATHERINE McNAMARA: It was a very coincidentally fortuitous situation, that’s for sure. I had good vision, my whole childhood. I never thought I needed vision health. I was fine, or so I thought. I ended up going to an optometrist to get a contact lens fitting for some special effects monster contacts for a job. I thought, “Well, it’s been about 10 years since I’ve gotten my eyes tested. I probably should. I’m here. Why not?” I was shocked and quite embarrassed at the results. I did not know how bad my vision was. It’s something that is so simple and can be right in front of our faces, and yet is so easy to forget about doing. You go about your life and things can change drastically, right before your eyes, literally, and you don’t even know. I started wearing glasses and, obviously, doing what I do, it’s not always conducive to work or to fitness, or for a lot of the other activities in my life. Glasses got to be very cumbersome.

So, mid-pandemic, when the world started opening back up again, I went, “Okay, I’m gonna figure out contact lenses. I’ve never had them before. I’ve never explored them. I’m in my mid-20s. It’s time to adult and take care of myself.” Around the same time, Alcon had reached out, seeing that I was wearing glasses and going, “Hey, have you ever thought about contacts?” I went to my eye doctor and it turns out that PRECISION1 was actually the perfect lens for me. They’re so comfortable. They’re daily lenses that you just throw in and I completely forget about. They truly have opened up my world and have made me feel as though I have my own superpower, as it were.

I love their See What Happens campaign because it really aligns with a lot of the way I live my life. It very much centers around encouraging people to go out into the world and have experiences and live your life and go on adventures and don’t let anything stop you, including your vision, which is exactly what Alcon did for me. I know being a young adult, I’m learning how to do all of these things in the world. It wasn’t necessarily something I knew how to do. So, they have a great feature on their website. You can go to SeeWhatHappens.com and find an eye doctor near you, where you can go get your vision tested. You can explore the options on their website and see what’s available to you, so you can go in with a little bit of knowledge and have the right questions to ask so that you can really find the right lens for you.

When you do as much physical work as you do, that must also help with stunts and making sure you can actually see what you’re doing.
McNAMARA: Oh, absolutely. Especially if you’re holding a bow on set and having to pretend to fire an arrow or you’re throwing a sword, or doing anything like that, it helps if you can see where you’re going or where you’re stepping in the dark or what you’re aiming at. If you’re throwing a kick in the dark, and there’s smoke and fog and your hair is blowing in your face, it helps if you can see, just a little. There’s only so much smolder that you can get away with.

Deadline – Katherine McNamara has been set to lead feature thriller Sugar, a Canadian-Mexican co-production which begins filming this month in Cancun, Mexico, and Montreal, Quebec.

BC-based Sepia Films and Montreal-based Connect3 Media are behind the film, which is being directed by filmmaker and cinematographer Vic Sarin (Partition).

The feature follows two young influencers who find themselves on a glamorous once-in-a-lifetime trip through the Caribbean and South Pacific, relaxing by day, partying by night, finding new love and becoming best friends. But as the mirage of their online personas starts to clash with their real-life ambitions, a battle of wills threatens to tear them apart.

Starring alongside McNamara are Jasmine Sky Sarin (Perfect High), Eric Bruneau (Laurence Anyways) and Spencer List (The Fosters).

Producing are Sepia Films’ Tina Pehme and Kim Roberts (The Games Maker) alongside Connect3 Media, part of Cineflix Media’s group of companies, led by Pablo Salzman (Vikings) and Israel Gonzalez of Kanan Films.

Director Sarin developed the screenplay alongside writers Annelies Kavan and Ben Johnstone.

McNamara is best known for her performances as Clary Fray in the Freeform series Shadowhunters, Mia Smoak in the CW’s Arrow and The Flash, and Sonya in the Maze Runner movies. Recent credits include feature Finding You and CBS mini-series The Stand.

Last Monday (08th November) Kat made a new premiere for Belfast at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. I love that more and more event are at last taking place and as long as they are safe its a great things for us. Over 40 HQ photos from the event are now in the gallery for you all.

Two weeks ago Kat took part in not one but two new photoshoots. The first was a collaboration with Eugene Lee Yang doing a recreation photoshoot of the tv show Killing Eve, Kat was playing Villanelle and Eugene as Eve. And the other photoshoot we only have on set photos that kat posted and don’t no what its for yet but she looks amazing and I can not wait for the official photos to come out.

‘I’m sorry, baby. You should never tell a psychopath that he is a psychopath. It upsets them. ‘ A huge thank you to the brainchild, Eugeen Lee Yang, for inviting me to this bloody pleasant time. Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer are brilliant and of course, my dear too!

Last weekend was the big Halloween party’s and Kat made a event at the Spotify Presents: Ghost Town Halloween Party with Parcast’s “Obsessed” Hosts Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone in West Hollywood, California. Only 1 official photo from the event is out but Kat post some of her own from inside on SM so you can find them all in the gallery now.

Shadowhunters star Kat McNamara talks the pressures of women in Hollywood, playing Green Arrow on The Flash, and can you really be friends with your ex?

Kat is back in LA after filming her Flash episode and made a new event yesterday (October 19th) at the Los Angeles Friends + Family Premiere of Dark Sky Films and Queensbury Pictures’ “Broadcast Signal Intrusion” at iPic Theaters for her Shadowhunter co-star Harry Shum Jr new movie. This time round we have a ton of new photos of Kat on the red carpet with over 50 HQ being added into the gallery for you all to see.

As we all no Kat will be a guest star on the upcoming cross over Armageddon of The Flash season 8 as Mia again. And the CW has released the trailer for the episodes and we get our first look at Mia. The episodes will start on November 16th but we don’t no what episodes Kat will be in at this time.

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Kat post today she did a new project for the pod cast The Burned Photo were she voices some story’s based on the popular Reddit thread. So far only one story is out for people to hear but the rest will become available soon. You can listen to the pod cast on Apple Music Here

“You thought your monsters died… they didn’t… and now they’re here…”#THEBURNEDPHOTO is out now! Thank you to @jeremynovick and the @qcodemedia team for letting me come laugh, cry, scream, and generally lose my mind in the recording booth telling this eerie story. Enjoy – if you dare… it is spooky season after all…

Based on a popular Reddit thread, The Burned Photo is a new suspense-filled thriller that tells the story of Felicia and Kira, two women, whose lives become intertwined when they discover they are being terrorized by the same multi-generational curse that is determined to end their family