Stephen Amell’s Ups and Downs Through the Years: Strike Commentary and Beyond
02.08.2023 - 17:11
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Stephen Amell hasn’t always made positive headlines throughout this rise to stardom.
Amell came to prominence while playing Oliver Queen on The CW superhero series Arrow from 2012 to 2020. Off camera, Amell has frequently offered glimpses of his growing family with wife Cassandra Jean.
As his career took off, Amell found himself in in hot water more than once over the years. He raised eyebrows in 2020 for continuing to promote his podcast amid the Black Lives Matter movement. Three years later, Amell defended his remarks about the SAG-AFTRA strike after voicing frustrations over not being able to promote his show Heels amid the labor dispute.
“I understand the strike on an intellectual level — striking is not the only form of negotiating. If there is a positive thing to take away from this — and I’m searching for the positives right now — because the past day or so has not been the most fun. If there is a positive here, I would like to think that in some shape or form I can encourage people to get back to the table and negotiate,” he told TMZ in August 2023. “One of the silver linings that [has] come out of this is [that] I’m going to get the opportunity later today to speak with SAG leadership to show them how much I support them and want to stand with them.”
Amell concluded: “I love my coworkers, I love my wife, and I love my kids very much. That doesn’t mean that I always agree with the choices that they make. But I will never, ever leave them in a time of need and I won’t do that to my union.”
Scroll through the gallery below to revisit Amell’s ups and downs through the years:
Amell got his start in Hollywood in 2004 by booking a two-episode arc on Queer as Folk. Following a guest star role on ReGenesis, Amell won a
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