The Flash Actor Teddy Sears Praises DC TV's Investment in Costumes

Following the Season 3 premiere of The Flash, ComicBook.com premiered its all new interactive after show series, Flashback, with special guest Teddy Sears. You can watch the whole interview above.

The Flash had its season 3 premiere tonight, and we here at Comicbook.com have your inside look behind the scenes of the CW's hit TV series. That includes an interview with The Flash season 2's big bad, Zoom/Jay Garrick, who is played by actor Teddy Sears.

When speaking to Sears about the experience of playing season 2 big bad, Zoom, and his friendlier alter-ego, Jay Garrick, the actor had nothing put praise for how The CW and DC Entertainment handle one of the most important aspects of their superhero shows: the costumes.

Sears would know first-hand; as Zoom, he wore one of the most extensive, head-to-toe costumes that we've seen in The CW's DC TV lineup. The Zoom costume looked (at least onscreen) like it could be horribly restrictive and oppressively hot. And yet, Sears praises the investment on the part of the show makers when it comes to quality costuming, noting that, "It wasn't hot! The really put the money into the suit to get it right, which meant really, I think, good materials - specifically really sort of high quality leather. I you look closely at the suit in pictures, you know, it's perforated in places: on the shoulders, specifically, in the torso - so basically, it breathed. And it was fine, it was really comfortable, it was really cool!"

Sears goes on to breakdown the investment in detail - such as he and Barry Allen/Flash actor Grant Gustin's respective costume emblems, which are both metallic (not plastic) and contain microphones to pick up their audio cues while in costume.

It's good to hear yet another DC TV actor having a good experience with suiting up in character; so many times there have been actors who come away lamenting the awkward or uncomfortable superhero costumes they had to wear onscreen (like everyone on this list...). Yet The CW has (for the most part) kept both fans and talent happy with the look of iconic characters - and when they don't get it right at first there are improvements that eventually get made (see: Diggle's new helmet on Arrow).

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The Flash premieres on October 4; Arrow on October 5; Supergirl October 10; and Legends of Tomorrow on October 13. Each show airs at 8/7c on The CW.