Do you like it over there?"
I guess we’ve known each other for a while.
The whole cast didn’t really get together until Comic-Con, right?BRANDON ROUTH: We had dinner.
Arthur [Darvill] and Ciara [Renee] in Vancouver.LOTZ: Your memory is better than mine.
I just remember Dom being on the carpet at like the upfront doing interviews.
And I’m like, “No, it’sLegends of Tomorrow.”
[Laughs]DOMINIC PURCELL: I do remember saying that.
It was very sudden.
I did a guest star [appearance] with Wentworth [Miller] onThe Flash.
Obviously, the chemistry between I and Wentworth is really cool.
Before I knew it, I was doingLegends of Tomorrowwith Wentworth and the cast.
[Laughs] “Legends of the Fall.”
That’s very typical of me.
We had a strong blueprint, but we’d never shot a pilot.
Tala, you were three?TALA ASHE: Mm-hm.
That was very difficult.
Nobody knew what was happening, what the agenda was, and what we were going to become.
“ASHE: Totally.
Matt, you’ve had a seamless entry.
Maybe internally it didn’t feel that way, but… for me it was really hard.
I think it also taps into my own insecurities about social situations.
It wasn’t untilthe Groundhog Day episode[where] what that episode asked of me was of vulnerability.
I couldn’t hide after, and during, that episode.
[Laughs] But then from that on, it was great.
Thank goodness I had Nick.
Tala Ashe on embracing herLegendscastmates.
But yeah, we do hangout.
That’s like theLegendsSoHo House.
It’s actually been really, really lovely.
My son was like infatuated with it and fell in love with Matt.
I’m like, “What are you doing?”
He goes, “This is how you smell them,” and he’s smelling his fingers.
I’m like, “Who taught you that?”
And he’s like, “Your worker friend Matt.”
I’m just like, “No, man.”
It was like summertime and it was just nice to be out on the beach too.
Someone actually taught him poses.
So he spent time in choreography doing naked yoga scenes.RYAN: Yeah.
Are you surprised by how much the show has evolved?PURCELL: Yeah, totally.
Now, I love the show.
The critics love it.
The fans love it.
The cast love it.
We’re just discovering stuff the whole while.
I was going to say, “No way that this works or is believable in any sense.”
And I was 1,000 percent wrong.
So ever since then I always give it a grain of salt and trust the system.ASHE: Yeah.
“Okay, this is a career ender.”
“This is the end of my career for sure.”
I mean, seriously, that’s what I thought.
“Okay, I’m never coming back from this.”
That’s the beauty of this show.
We were all a bit cautious or worried when he first entered inthe Viking episode.
We all went for it.
We had puppets, we were in recording studios singing kid’s theme songs.
Like, Tala was a cat.
*” I mean, that was real.
I was like, what were we doing?
I turned up on the show coming from doingConstantineas a drama.
So I’m walking along, like, “Oh my God, what is this show?”
Those are the ones that I’ve been really excited to read.
Maisie, you’re now portraying a second, completely different character.
I don’t think the two could be more different.
Amaya Jiwe was very straight laced, very professional, and had a lot at stake constantly.
It’s actually quite a tragic and dark story.
She’s going to pal with people you wouldn’t quite expect.
Everyone has their darknesses and their light.
Just onArrowalone, Sara’s journey was huge.
Such a big arc.
OnArrow, everything was so dark and then I was like, “What?
I would never say that.
Sara would never say that.”
They had a plan for him, but it just kind of depended on how everybody meshed together.
The news broke thatyour character is leaving the show, Brandon.
How are you feeling about the end of the road approaching?ROUTH:It’s been challenging.
I’ll miss the back and forth with Ray and Nora, the bromance of Nate and Ray.
There’s so many things that Ray brings to the ship.
You know, my life models Ray quite a bit in my energy.
I’m very similar to Ray in many ways.
His journey is my journey, and vice versa.
What was it like to haveCaity as a director this year?RYAN:I love it.
I came off that [set] last night, we were there, like, 14 hours.
I said to her, I was just like, Oh my God.RICHARDSON-SELLERS:Yeah, she killed it.
She’s crushed it.
She just wants to reinvent and leaned into the stylistic aspect of her episode.
We’re doing shots that personally I’ve never done on episodic TV before.
It takes a lot of confidence to take those risks.
I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
Like, I love our show.
We started early with this show we had a no ahole policy.
No one was allowed to be an ahole.
So let’s do it.
DC’s Legends of Tomorrowseason 5 premieres Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 9 p.m. on The CW.
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