Legends of Tomorrow season 4: Jes Macallan promoted to series regular
In a statement about the promotion, show executive producer Phil Klemmer had the following to say:
“Jes has a power to captivate in person as well as on screen. She had been guest-starring on Legends for all of two days when one of our teamsters, the guy who had been driving her to set, told me that we ought to make her a series regular. He wasn’t wrong … We knew that we wanted Sara to fall in love with someone in season 3, and our challenge was to come up with a character worthy of our fearless captain’s love — and then the second challenge was to find a performer capable of playing that part. The door had barely closed on Jes, having just finished her chemistry read with Caity Lotz, that we all turned to each other and agreed that we had found our Ava.”
“Her character arc was a bit of a slow burn this season, and yet each episode revealed a new facet of her character. She’s been alternately funny, poignant, engaging, endearing, and kick-ass this season — and yet I know for a fact that we haven’t hit all of Jes’s hidden gears as an actor. We are lucky to have a whole new season in which to find them. It’s not every actor who can find the emotional heart of a storyline that features John Constantine, a chicken, and a severed human foot. Thank God we found Jes Macallan.”
Macallan started off this season as a member of the Time Bureau, an organization that was intent on trying to ensure that the timeline stayed intact at all costs. Over the course of the season, Ava Sharpe found herself more involved with the team, and eventually even in charge of the Bureau as she was promoted to director after Bennett’s death. The past few episodes have seen her romance with Sara Lance intensify and become more intense; yet, in turn she’s also learned of her devastating history, as she was created as one of many clones from the future. She was technically the twelfth one brought in by Rip Hunter, which has her questioning her very existence and whether or not she is worthy of love. It’s heartbreaking, but we’re hopeful entering the finale that she and Sara will find a way to be together and happy. The promotion ensures that we will be seeing plenty more of her moving forward.
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