Legends of Tomorrow's Maisie Richardson-Sellers Wonders if Vixen Will EVER Go Back to the 1940s
03/14/2017 06:17 pm EDT
On tonight's episode of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Maisie Richardson Sellers -- who plays Vixen on the series -- Will find herself stuck between her commitment to the team and her affection for both a former JSA teammate and her current kinda-sorta boyfriend as Nate's grandfather Commander Steel seeks to alter his own future.
"Commander Steel decides that he might try and change the future, and I have to remind Nate quite forcefully that you can alter the future, because it alters everything, but of course we've altered my future already," Richardson-Sellers told ComicBook.com. "You see Nate and Amaya's relationship get tested [because] Commander Steel decides he's going to change his future, which would mean Nate's father has a much better childhood, so Nate is very pro-that, but I say he can't because altering the future is wrong....It gives him a lot to think about, as to whether he tells me about my future or not."
Amaya has arguably been the character who has grown and changed the most over the course of the season, and so as the season starts to wind down it's arguably not surprising to see so much of the story revolving around her.
"The JSA are very slick, professional, and sort of driven," the actress told us, saying that was part of why her character was so disinclined to open up to the Legends at first. "Also, she didn't realize how big the missions would be. she thought, 'I'm only going to be on the ship for a short time, finish this mission, then go home.' Then when it turned out to be part of a much larger mission with the Legion of Doom, she's been on the ship a lot longer than she thought. Just having time around these new people in a very intimate space changed things. She's learned a lot from them, as well, in the fact that you don't have to be perfect as long as you get the job done, so I think she's relaxed a lot and let go of her 1940s vibe."
In terms of the romance, so far her relationship with Nate has been discussed almost entirely in terms of what could happen to the timeline if the two remain together for any length of time. We pointed out that it hasn't yet been asked -- what if that was always supposed to happen?
"It's so true!" said Richardson-Sellers. "I think that's a big question for Nate. He has to decide whether he tells Amaya or not, and what the possible consequences of that are. I can't say whether he does or not, but that's the problem with changing the future, is that it's so complicated. You never know what has caused what."
And, of course, throughout all of this she's dealing with seeing her old Justice Society teammates for the first time since she left them in 1945. Richardson-Sellers said that while the confrontation with Obsidian in the 1980s, in which he asked her why she "turned her back" on the team, was painful but that other encounters -- such as meeting Stargirl in Camelot -- have been easier for Amaya as the characters just slid into familiar dynamics.
"Certainly the question of if she's going to stay with the team or not" is an exciting element of the rest of the season for Richardson-Sellers. "The mission is going to be completed in one form or another, whether they're successful or not. And then the question is, what now? Does she return home and give up her new friends? Would she even fit in at home now, having changed so much that it sort of wouldn't be possible? Also, just in terms of having changed her mentality in becoming a much more modern woman, would it be in her best interest to continue? That's the biggest question."
DC's Legends of Tomorrow airs on Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT on The CW. Tonight's episode, "Moonshot," sees the team dropped into the middle of the Apollo XIII crisis.
MORE LEGENDS: Moonshot Photos Take The Team On An Apollo Mission / Live Recap With Spoilers: Land Of The Lost / Land Of The Lost Featurette
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