One of the characters that made a cameo appearance during the multiverse sequence of The Flash is the Jay Garrick version of The Flash in his Golden Age look. He showed up in the black-and-white universe where George Reeves' Superman also exists.
Initially, fans assumed that Teddy Sears, who played an imposter of the character in the CW series, reprised the role in the film although the actor since then denied his involvement and reports confirmed that the role was not played by a well-known actor.
Now, as we're more than a month away now since the film's arrival in theaters, we finally have the identity of the person who played the character and it's someone who is deeply involved in the movie.
The Editor of the Film Played Jay Garrick During the Multiverse Sequence
Speaking with Frame.io Insider, The Flash editor Jason Ballantine revealed that he was the person who played Jay Garrick during the character's brief cameo in the multiverse sequence.
He volunteered to play the role in the sequence when the VFX supervisor made the decision to use a "real face" for the character instead of being full-on digitally rendered.
"[Director Andy Muschietti] wanted that as one of the characters and quite large on screen. And then DJ, our visual effects supervisor, said, ‘Well, if we’re going to have a digital character that large on screen, then it would be better to have a real face just to help with the look of the shot,’" he said.
"And so I stuck my hand up, my arm nearly flew off my shoulder, to volunteer to have an opportunity to have my face stuck on the original Flash."
This should shoot down all the endless speculations surrounding the character's appearance in the film and it certainly proved furthermore that Sears' likeness was not used for that brief moment.
Considering that the character was not really a huge part of the sequence and the filmmakers also made a somewhat strange decision to not cast John Wesley Shipp for that cameo, it's not surprising that the actor was just an ordinary guy that none of us are familiar with it.
After all, casting Ballantine did not cost them more money and he is already an in-house figure and they only needed a face as the model for that sequence. It helps that he has the physical look of someone who could be a Jay Garrick.
This is certainly an interesting behind-the-scenes detail about the film since the mystery has finally been solved and the answer wasn't as big as fans might have expected.
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