Elysia Rotaru Cast As New Love Interest For Oliver

Entertainment Weekly last night revealed that actress Elysia Rotaru has been cast as a love interest for Oliver Queen in Arrow Season 4.

But wait – what?!?! – didn’t he go off into the sunset with Felicity at the end of Season 3?

He did, and that’s not being affected by this. (Actually, we talked with EP Wendy Mericle at last night’s CBS/CW party, and it sounds like things are going pretty well for the couple.) It seems Elysia’s character will appear in the Season 4 flashback, not in the present day…. and Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim told EW there will be comparisons to present day. “Oliver is gonna have a love interest in the past that will serve as a parallel or potentially a contrast to his love affair with Felicity in the present,” he said.

Rotaru’s other credits include Supernatural and iZombie.