Earlier than it, life can go by in a flash.

Simply ask Grant Gustin, who has portrayed lightning-quick Barry Allen for the final 9 years on The Flash.

“I am prepared for it to be over,” he instructed E! Information forward of The CW present’s ninth and closing season. “And that is not for any unfavourable cause. It is like whenever you’re on the brink of end highschool and—granted I do not know what school I’ll after this, I may not get into school—however you are excited to wrap up and transfer on to the subsequent part of your life.”

Gustin, who shares 17-month-old daughter Juniper Grace with spouse LA Thoma, added, “I am prepared emotionally and my household is able to simply form of transfer into the subsequent chapter collectively.”

He is not solely certain what that subsequent chapter has in retailer—however not having all of it mapped out is just not precisely new for Gustin. Because the 33-year-old defined, he is by no means put an excessive amount of thought into The Flash‘s inevitable conclusion for the reason that Arrow spinoff sped onto screens in 2014.

“I by no means had an actual expectation, I’ve by no means tried to visualise how it might finish in spite of everything these years,” Gustin shared. “So, I do not know what to anticipate from this final one, no matter script I obtain in my inbox is what I am going to settle for as our story after which transfer ahead with.”