Sugar Lyn Beard Says Hazard Isn't Evil, She Just Thinks It's Her Turn

Tonight on The Flash, Sugar Lyn Beard will play Becky Sharpe, the DC villain known as Hazard -- [...]

By Russ Burlingame

Tonight on The Flash, Sugar Lyn Beard will play Becky Sharpe, the DC villain known as Hazard -- but she says Becky genuinely does not mean anyone any harm...even though she inadvertently creates a lot of it.

On last week's episode, audiences met Kilg%re, a villain whose life had not been easy, but who was nevertheless bloodthirsty, cruel, and actively seeking to hurt others. Beard's Hazard is something else entirely: she is willfully ignorant of the way her probability-based powers are playing hell on the universe around her, choosing to believe that the rest of the world is just finally having the lifetime's worth of bad luck that had plagued her in the past.

"She's not a bad person; she's just finally in a position where she feels she needs to take advantage because she's never known luck before," Beard told ComicBook.com. "She thinks it's her turn."

That is most evident in one of the opening sequences; Becky literally walks into a bank and walks away with what she wants, without anyone ever offering her any resitance -- in part because all manner of tragedies befall them as she makes her way across the room. In stiletto heels and an eye-catching dress, the scene is played like something out of a farcical comedy, and if there weren't lives and millions at stake, the joke would feel more like people were distracted by Becky's looks and bringing the misfortune upon themselves.

"I wanted to play her, almost that she really does believe that it's just her time," Beard continued. "Seeing people around her having bad luck, she's like 'Well, I've been going through that my whole life. I think she's so hung up on the fact that she has finally gotten her good luck streak that she is kind of oblivious to everything else. I think her empathy is forced out the window when she's in this situation because she's never been here before and she's just trying to hold onto that luck with all she can."

Beard said blending her comedy chops -- what she is most known for -- with Becky's dark side was a dream come true for her, since she always coveted a villainous role, but when you're an attractive, young woman with a bubbly demeanor "supervillain" is usually not the first gig that gets offered.

"It was a dream of mine because I know in my heart of hearts I have a really good villain in there," Beard said. "Because I'm always doing comedic roles, I didn't know when it was going to happen or if it would, so I was definitely surprised to get the call to play Becky, but then as soon as I read the script, I was like 'oh, I get it.'"

Beard, who said it was "an honor" to be the first to play Hazard in live action, said that she did not get the giant pile of comics that series regulars get to research their role -- but she did get one very important issue to thumb through.

"One of my writing partners, RJ Buckley, is a huge comic book fan who just knows everything there is to know," Beard said. "As soon as it was announced that i was going to be Hazard, he came over and gave me the first comic that she appeared in."

The Flash airs on Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.

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