Interview: John Wesley Shipp

Published: March 26, 2015, 12:53 p.m.

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Award winning actor John Wesley Shipp joins us to talk about his experience portraying both the original Flash in the 1990s series as well as his take on Henry Allen in today’s CW The Flash!

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