Iris is not her ethnicity; she’s just not. I know comic book fans have an attachment to these characters and I get it: when you love something so much you kind of want everything to be the way you imagined it. But what I love about Iris and what drew me to her isn’t her skin color; it’s her heart and her lightness and she’s the girl next door and she’s fun-loving and I think everyone wants that in their life.

And she’s Barry’s kind of light at the end of the tunnel. He’s dealing with all of these changes and he’s dealing with all of these villains and Rogues and it’s nice to come home and then there’s Iris, the light in his life.