Stephen Amell ‘Did not Know Something’ About ‘Fits’ Earlier than Auditioning for ‘Fits LA’ (Unique)

Stephen Amell nailed his Fits LA audition regardless of having by no means watched the unique present.

The 43-year-old actor tells PEOPLE in an unique interview that he “did not actually know something” about Fits previous to auditioning for the lead position of Ted Black within the new NBC spinoff sequence.

“I had seen that well-known scene the place Harvey [Gabriel Macht] hires Mike [Patrick J. Adams] within the pilot — it simply randomly it got here up on my YouTube feed or Instagram. I do not bear in mind. So I might seen that,” he remembers.

It wasn’t till he obtained on set and started capturing the pilot episode that he lastly sat down and dove into some Fits episodes. “I watched a bunch of the present as a result of pilots are bizarre. We now have loads of downtime, loads of lengthy setups and stuff like that. So I would just return to my trailer and break off an episode,” he explains, including, “It was nice.”

In keeping with an NBC synopsis, Amell’s character Ted is “a former federal prosector from New York who has reinvented himself to signify essentially the most highly effective purchasers in Los Angeles.” Because the sequence kicks off, his legislation agency, Black Lane, is “at a disaster level, and with the intention to survive, [Ted] should embrace a task he held in contempt his complete profession.”

The present, written and government produced by Aaron Korsh, additionally stars Lex Scott Davis, Bryan Greenberg and Josh McDermitt.

When requested whether or not he and the remainder of the forged and crew have felt any strain because of the success and enormous fanbase of the unique Fits — which aired from 2011 to 2019 and went on to achieve new audiences through streaming platforms — Amell tells PEOPLE he is taken his cues from Korsh. “Aaron’s not likely bothered by something, and I feel that, at the very least for me, has rubbed off on me,” he says.

The Arrow star provides that he has realized over the course of his profession to decelerate and take time to understand every new expertise because it’s taking place, and he utilized that mindset to this challenge.

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“I really feel very, very grateful for this chance,” he says. “So there may be strain on the market, there are expectations, however they don’t seem to be being positioned on us by anybody that we work with or anybody whose — for me personally — opinion actually issues.”

Amell additionally teased some particulars in regards to the pilot episode, telling PEOPLE that viewers might be dropped proper into the center of the authorized motion. And whereas Fits LA may have apparent “parallels” to its predecessor, the sequence has a completely new identification of its personal.

“You are actually dropped into the center of this world and issues are taking place and dynamic skilled shifts are taking place, and so it has loads of the identical emotions [as the original show], however you are in a brand new world, instantly,” he explains. “So hopefully that makes folks return and watch the pilot a number of occasions.”

Fits LA premieres Feb. 23 at 9pm ET/PT on NBC and might be accessible to stream on Peacock the following day.