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“#Jes Macallan on Directing, Her Special Guest Star & the Avalance Wedding<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Legends of Tomorrow<\/em><\/a> star Jes Macallan<\/a> goes from co-captain of the Waverider to director for the August 8 episode, \u201cThe Final Frame,\u201d in which the Legends find themselves in a cosmic bowling alley.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t the most normal kind of square script<\/a> you could have,\u201d Macallan tells TV Insider with a laugh. \u201cSo we had a blast, to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n

But while Macallan is on screen a little less than usual, fans will still get to see her as Ava \u2014 and she\u2019s getting ready for her and Sara\u2019s (Caity Lotz<\/a>) upcoming wedding. With things going awry, however, Gary (Adam Tsekham) tries to distract her, with hilarious results.<\/p>\n

Macallan discusses directing this wild episode (and her \u201cbetter half\u201d Nic Bishop guest starring), the upcoming Avalance wedding, and more.<\/p>\n

Legends of Tomorrow<\/em> has some crazy stuff, but did you ever think your Legends<\/em> directorial debut would feature a floating bowling alley, hiking, and wedding planning?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jes Macallan: <\/strong>No, and I didn\u2019t expect to be acting in it as much as I was. And I love that they wrote that super meta line that\u2019s like, \u201cThank you, everyone here, for making my day about a floating bowling alley!\u201d It was like my favorite line in the whole episode, because yeah, 26 pages of that script, we were in a bowling alley in space. Try pitching that to people and try having a meeting with department heads talking about [that]. We have some crazy, crazy conversations on Legends<\/em>, but [the ones around this episode] took the cake for me, for sure.<\/p>\n

You mentioned how much you were in the episode. It wasn\u2019t as much as in others. <\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a huge part of it [being the right episode to direct]. And luckily, our EPs and [co-showrunner] Phil Klemmer and Chad Kennedy at Warner Brothers and everybody at CW are just champions of actors that want to direct and do the work and are really, really passionate about it and want to shift into that part of their career. So I felt so supported by everyone. It\u2019s been a long journey for me wanting to get into the director\u2019s chair since even the last show I was on. I\u2019ve just felt the draw of that probably equally, certainly as much as acting, if not, maybe more, and to be supported by the writers, the EPs, the network, and the studio to lower my workload as an actor just for my first time was amazing. They don\u2019t have to do that, and it was a luxury to have that. I was very light in the episode beforehand as well because there\u2019s a ton of prep and it\u2019s not an easy thing and to have the support of everybody was such a blessing.<\/p>\n

What can you preview about what the Legends are going to be facing at this cosmic bowling alley?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a pretty nasty, pretty obnoxious, Jersey Shore<\/a>-esque kind of villain that isn\u2019t your average vampire or whatever the heck else, Beebo \u2014 well, I guess Beebo was pretty damn out there \u2014 played by the one and only Nic Bishop, who is also my better half. And it\u2019s pretty whacked. The stakes are super high even though we\u2019re in a bowling alley. It\u2019s kind of a bowling alley homage to the restaurant at the end of the galaxy, and this villain is taking over worlds and planets beating their occupants at bowling. As comedic and ridiculous as that sounded, the stakes are super high, and telling that story and making people understand and follow and making it a fun journey for the audience to watch and not be bored and not switch off and not be confused was certainly a hurdle. And I think, I hope we achieved it. I think it\u2019s a pretty fun episode.<\/p>\n

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Talk about directing Nic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love working with him. I love that he\u2019s my other half and that we both get to go on this journey together. We\u2019re both in the same industry, which can be really, really hard for relationships, and I just love that it\u2019s been an asset instead of a detriment for us. We really love working together. We love developing together. We love writing together. We love acting together. We love all of it. So it was really, really magical that that even came up and I said, \u201cJust put a tape down, please,\u201d and he did because he\u2019s wonderful. We auditioned and I truly, without any sort of wanting him to play it, just couldn\u2019t find the Mike that I wanted. And I knew that he had it in him to do this kind of outlandish, crazy high hair, flat top villain that I wanted Mike to be, this kind of guy that you loathe, but you want to keep watching him because he\u2019s entertaining, and he just smashed it. I\u2019m so grateful.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ava\u2019s trying to find her wedding dress, and while Gary is trying to distract her from everything going on, is he at all helpful in helping her figure out what she wants?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When is Gary ever helpful? Let\u2019s be perfectly honest. No, I love that montage with all my heart. It was such an homage to every \u201980s movie that we all know and love and every kind of fun \u201cGirls Just Want to Have Fun\u201d moment of them playing dress-up in the bridal suite situation on the Waverider. Gary and Ava have a love-hate relationship, but I do feel that deep down it\u2019s more love-love, and it\u2019ll only grow as we near the end of the season. There are some really touching moments with good ol\u2019 Gar-bear that I think the audience is really gonna enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Ava and Sara\u2019s relationship has seemed very steady lately after the half-alien reveal. Are we going to continue to see that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s an easy thing, to be in a half-alien, half-human situation and certainly Sara and Ava have had a long-winded relationship of just trying to be together. And then it finally happens, and look, we\u2019ve got an alien situation, but it wouldn\u2019t be Legends<\/em> without the whack of that, right? They are together and we have teased the wedding, so we know that that could possibly happen. Look forward to Sara and Ava, they have a good journey for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

Speaking of that wedding in the trailer, I love the \u201cco-captains forever\u201d moment. What can you tease about the wedding up until probably the worst objection ever?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, exactly. What I will say is obviously the cat\u2019s out of the bag. I wish it was a little hidden, but it\u2019s out of the bag, but certainly tune in because as we all know, nothing\u2019s ever easy for the Legends and clearly nothing\u2019s ever easy for Sara and Ava trying to be together and just be happy and \u201cnormal,\u201d even though they don\u2019t want to be normal. It\u2019s not going to be an easy \u201cI do.\u201d It\u2019s not going to be just, \u201cOK, and we\u2019re married,\u201d so definitely tune in. Because you don\u2019t want to miss all the stuff that goes down in that finale. Oh my God.<\/p>\n

Legends of Tomorrow<\/em>, Sundays, 8\/7c, The CW<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n