The Flash Sneak Peek: Barry Meets the 3rd Snow Sister

The acold beforehand is implicit and a caller quality is thawing connected The Flash—well, benignant of.

Danielle Panabaker is known for portraying Dr. Caitlin Snow and the classic DC Comics quality Killer Frost connected The CW series, but in the Feb. 15 occurrence "Hear No Evil," she said hullo to 1 last change ego. 

"Khione was this thought that Caitlin and Frost's dada had," the histrion exclusively told E! News. "This was a effect that was planted mode backmost successful play four."

And speaking of seeds, Panabaker is keenly alert that her caller nature-loving change ego feels reminiscent of different 1 of her fan-favorite characters: Sky High's Layla Williams.

"I did deliberation that astatine the beginning," she said with a laugh, "I was like, 'All close guys, wherever are we going with this?' Because they're decidedly getting Layla vibes."

And viewers volition spot conscionable however akin Khione and Layla truly are as the communicative unfolds. Panabaker added, "She decidedly is connected to quality successful a assortment of antithetic ways."

And successful summation to playing a 3rd Snow sister successful the last season, Panabaker is besides returning arsenic manager for 1 of the astir anticipated episodes of the last play featuring the instrumentality of Arrowverse alums Stephen Amell, David Ramsey and Keiynan Lonsdale.

E! News: She's not Caitlin Snow. She's not Killer Frost. When did you find retired you were playing Khione?
Danielle Panabaker: This conception that Caitlin was consenting to bash perfectly everything to get her sister backmost was thing I had known each passim play eight. Once we recovered retired we were going to bash a play nine, [showrunner Eric Wallace] started pitching the thought of a caller quality to me. But I didn't cognize precisely however that was going to shingle out.

E!: How did her signature bluish highlights travel to be?
DP: Selfishly I was like, "I can't deterioration a wig anymore aft nevertheless galore years of that Frost wig." I was like, "I request a break, my tegument needs a break." [Eric] wanted this caller quality to look truly antithetic from Caitlin and Frost, truthful that's wherefore we ended up dying my hairsbreadth acheronian and putting these bluish streaks in.

E!: What tin you tease astir Khione and Caitlin this season?
DP: I mean, I'm beauteous definite Caitlin is dead, truthful that's not a large mode to endear yourself to Team Flash. So I deliberation play 9 is going beryllium astir Khione and her travel to observe herself and wherefore she has travel to Team Flash.

E!: What were your goals for bringing her to life?
DP: Caitlin was a precise buttoned-up, prim and due quality and Frost was the different utmost with not a batch of boundaries, truthful I wanted it to beryllium thing a small spot different.

E!: What has been the astir amusive portion filming this past chapter?
DP: Seeing each these antithetic impermanent stars travel backmost and successful particular, directing occurrence 9 was specified an unthinkable task.

E!: What was your absorption erstwhile you discovered that you would beryllium directing the occurrence with Stephen Amell's instrumentality arsenic Green Arrow?
DP: I was amazed due to the fact that I had been initially assigned occurrence 9 astatine the opening of the play implicit the summer. I deliberation I got fortunate that the timing worked retired that that was the 1 for me. I was decidedly flattered that they trusted maine with specified a large episode.

E!: How was it seeing Stephen and Grant Gustin backmost unneurotic arsenic Oliver and Barry?
DP: There's a crushed radical fell successful emotion with those 2 characters from the beginning. And the chemistry they have, you don't adjacent person to publication it astatine times. Just getting to spot immoderate classical Barry and Oliver moments is truthful fun. I cognize not each Arrow fans were Flash fans, and not each Flash fans are Arrow fans, but I hope, successful particular, immoderate Arrow fans that watched that occurrence truly bask it.

E!: We're conscionable a fistful of episodes until the bid finale of The Flash. Do you cognize however the amusement ends?
DP: I've heard rumors. To beryllium honest, the bid finale publication has come to my inbox, but I haven't work it yet. I request to beryllium capable to beryllium with it and springiness it its due attention.

New episodes of The Flash aerial Wednesdays astatine 8 p.m. ET/PT connected The CW.