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The Flash has been incredibly successful worldwide —the type of success that Candice once only dreamed of. "When you shoot a pilot, you always have in the back of your head that this might go nowhere. You don't want to get too excited," she says. And though Candice knew the show had potential, she never predicted this level of success. "Every year, when we got into filming season one and season two, the producer kept saying, 'You can buy a house in Vancouver, you're going to be here for a while' —I didn't believe him. Every year, I thought I would be moving back to L.A. and starting all over again." Landing the role of Iris was Candice's second big win. While she was in college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, she entered a nationwide audition contest and won a role in The Young and the Restless. This was the start of her acting career. She flew to Los Angeles to film a couple of episodes. After filming was finished, she returned to Dallas to complete her degree in theater. As soon as Candice obtained her degree, she returned to L.A. to act. She booked supporting roles on a list of popular television shows, including, Entourage, Heroes, One Tree Hill, Grey's Anatomy, and CSI: Miami. In 2013, she found a more permanent home on BET's The Game. Candice was no stranger to the auditioning process when she read for the role of Iris. "I had seen an episode or two of Arrow, and I thought it was a cool reintroduction to comics on TV," she says. While she's gone on her fair share of auditions, Candice confesses that it's normal to still get nervous and feel awkward doing them. "I think, for me, the biggest nerves that I have are surrounded by performing well — doing it as good as I did it in front of my mirror. When you walk into a room, there are all these things that come up —seeing all these actors in the waiting room, more famous actors, and expecting five people in the room and seeing seven. There are a lot of things that can rattle you and throw you off and defocus you from the work that you were doing when you were at home." Because Candice didn't immediately receive a callback, she assumed she didn't get the job. A month later, she was invited back to do another take. This time around, it only took two days for her to hear back —she landed the role. "It's a weird range of emotions," says Candice, who quickly relocated to Vancouver to begin shooting the pilot. With filming taking place in Vancouver, Candice often feels isolated from the world, making it easy for her to forget that what she does on set daily has a global reach. "It's crazy… sometimes I forget that. We shoot the show in this bubble in Vancouver, away from the world, away from our families and our friends. To me, it feels like I'm just going to my job every day, and I forget the impact that it has. It goes out into the world and people view it and consume it and it changes their lives. It's a part of who they are. It's important for me to remember that, because I don't how many jobs I'll have in my career that will have that sort of impact. I'm really lucky," says Candice. Candice's character Iris has impacted and inspired women all over the world. Tough and sassy, Candice is like Iris in some ways. "We both have a lot of fortitude and desire to keep pushing. She is always pushing for a story or a clue. I'm dogged in the same way in my life, in my career about going after things," she says. "We both say what