Arrow Season 3 Spoilers: Austin Butler Joins Cast as Thea's Love Interest

The cast of Season 3 of the CW's Arrow continues to grow, as Austin Butler has joined the show as a love interest for Thea (Willa Holland).

EW.com reports Butler, who has worked on the CW in Life Unexpected and The Carrie Diaries, will play Chase, "a charismatic DJ whose talent and wiles catch the attention of Thea Queen." Of course, their working relationship becomes romantic.

Butler will first appear on the show in Episode 7.

In other news, TVLine has posted its Fall TV spoilers spectacular, and Arrow is one of the entries on the list. So let's see what the site has to report:

"The Season 3 premiere, titled 'The Calm,' is 'a complete inverse' of the superhero hit's sophomore opener, in which Oliver was despondent, his alter ego disgraced, EP Marc Guggenheim notes. Rather, 'Arrow's starting to win the hearts of the city.'

Cue the arrival of a different sort of adversary, in entrepreneur Ray Palmer (Superman Returns' Brandon Routh). 'He's not like Sebastian Blood, looking at Oliver with disdain. Oliver quite frankly just doesn't play at this guy's level.' (As for talk that Ray, who is not yet The Atom, will catch Felicity's eye, the EP affirms: 'The chemistry between Brandon and Emily [Bett Rickards] is pretty undeniable.')

Episode 3 will focus on dad-to-be Diggle, Episode 5 delves into Felicity's past (with NYPD Blue's Charlotte Ross as her mom), viewers will get to sit in on the limo convo between Malcolm and daughter Thea, and Ted 'Wildcat' Grant (played byJ.R. Ramirez as a Latino boxing instructor) will play a role in Laurel's evolution into Canary."

What do you think of Butler's joining the cast? How will his romance with Thea end up? Let us know in the comments section.