After a decade living in the turbulent world of ‘The Flash,’ the actor is laser-focused on the future and self-fulfillment.
After multiple technical difficulties, Kiersey Clemons and I finally connect on FaceTime. When she discovers we’re both in Brooklyn, she insists on immediately hopping into an Uber to meet me at my favorite local cafe. “This is how it’s meant to be,” the 29-year-old actor exclaims.Twenty minutes later, I meet Clemons at my neighborhood spot — a ’90s-feeling coffee shop banqueted in red vinyl.
Clemons, who’ll turn 30 later this year, is at a similar point of discovery for herself and her career. She recently starred in DC’swhich premiered at this year’s South by Southwest. Her career is in bloom in a way that’s neither a resurgence nor reinvention but something more nebulous that Clemons sees as a direct line from what she had done previously. “I feel like it’s more of what a lot of my hard work and desperation in my early 20s led me to.
But due to Famuyiwa’s vision not fitting with DC’s, a revolving door of possible scripts and directors, and COVID-19, it was unclear if and whenwould actually become a reality; Clemons had no idea whether she would still portray West after Famuyiwa dropped out of the film. It was a trying experience for her. After taking an inhale of her brightly colored Elf Bar, Clemons exhales to get into it.
It’s another layer to an already stacked experience of over a decade of industry complications; the final film everyone has seen isn’t the story she wanted to tell about Iris West and Barry Allen. Clemons seems to feel a bit of relief, but also pain, that she can finally talk about her experience. “Now that the movie’s out, I feel like for the last nearly 10 years, I’ve just been smiling and giving so much grace. I think it was to protect my peace of mind.
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