Stephen Amell Says His Daughter Helped Him Learn Traces for ‘Fits LA’ Pilot (Unique)

Stephen Amell bought a bit assist from his real-life household to step into the Fits universe for the brand new NBC spinoff sequence Fits LA.

The Arrow star, 43 completely instructed PEOPLE on the Fits LA premiere in Los Angeles on Feb. 20 that his and spouse Cassandra Jean’s 11-year-old daughter, Maverick, learn strains from the present’s pilot with him when she was 10 so he may put together to audition for the authorized drama sequence.

One NSFW quote from the script apparently has turn out to be an ongoing joke within the Amell family. The quote comes from a dialog between Stephen’s character Ted Black and one other character. 

“There’s this line the place Ted says, and it’s very early on, so I don’t suppose I’m spoiling an excessive amount of the place I’m attempting to signal this consumer, and the character says to me, ‘Have they signed?’ They usually say, ‘For those who’re not signing proper now, I’ll reduce off my left ball in the event that they’re not signing proper now,’ ” he recollects. 

“After which they signal and my character goes, ‘Left ball lives.’ My daughter thought that was the funniest factor she’s ever heard,” Stephen continues. “Even now, each time I point out that I’m going to work, she’s like, ‘Left ball lives, Dad. Left ball lives.’ ”

The Amells, who married in December 2012, welcomed Maverick in October 2013. They welcomed their second child, Bowen, in Might 2022.

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Requested on the premiere if Maverick is sufficiently old to look at Fits LA, the daddy of two expressed why she’s allowed to look at it. 

“Oh, certain. Yeah, yeah, yeah,” he says, including a caveat. “I don’t know if we’d let her watch it if I wasn’t on it, however once you’re on it, there’s a particular dispensation given for youngsters.”

Stephen performs prosecutor Ted Black, whom NBC describes as a “charismatic power of nature who places his personal wants above others.”

In an interview with PEOPLE in 2024, Stephen mentioned he’s “very excited” for his function within the spinoff sequence as a result of “it’s one thing very new and totally different for me — talky-talky, not punchy-punchy.”

The Fits LA logline elaborated on Stephen’s character: “Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself representing essentially the most highly effective purchasers in Los Angeles. His agency is at a disaster level, and with a view to survive he should embrace a job he held in contempt his whole profession. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who check their loyalties to each Ted and one another whereas they will’t assist however combine their private {and professional} lives. All of this is occurring whereas occasions from years in the past slowly unravel that led Ted to go away behind every thing and everybody he beloved.”

The sequence additionally stars Lex Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt and Bryan Greenberg.

Fits LA premieres Feb. 23 at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.