So in the transition to the Legends team, he was no longer the leader. He no longer had to be that version of Ray Palmer. He could be the Ray Palmer that knew every episode of Doctor Who, who played Dungeons and Dragons growing up. All of these things that he had kind of bottled up to be the CEO, were now able to come out. The boy scout, all of these things, which were a part of him he could now let loose because he didn’t have the responsibility of being a team leader. As the show has progressed in seasons and he’s still not tapped to be the leader, he can continue to do that and be more this other side of himself. I enjoy comedy and I just kept pushing the envelope. Audiences were responding and writers are responding and I just kept pushing the limit and they followed. And so we get to where we are today.

As Legends of Tomorrow went on, were you relieved to not have to wear that Atom suit quite as much?

Yes. I love the suit, and I love that aspect of the character. I definitely think the last couple of seasons, it’s been missing and even though it’s not always the most fun thing to be in and work long days in, I think it deserved to be present more in recent seasons. At the same time, given the budget that we’re given for doing this TV series, it’s not often enough to do the CG animation that the Atom deserves. So from the beginning it became apparent that this was going to be a lot more of kicking and punching and hand to hand combat, and that’s fun, but it’s hard to do in that suit. But the Atom is originally able to shrink. I was always pushing to have more of that, but we were limited by the budget, because we had all these other characters that had to have CGI and all kinds of others. So I would’ve liked a little bit more of it. I certainly would’ve appreciated more opportunity for cool miniaturization scenes, but it didn’t end up being able to work out that way. That being said, there were some really awesome moments that they were able to do. All the visual effects teams worked incredibly hard at and they look really awesome.

The Legends set seems like a pretty fun and crazy place to be. Do you have any particular favorite moments, behind the scenes moments, whether it’s stuff that made it to the screen or not? Because the energy between that cast is just so apparent to viewers.

It’s become that. It’s become a great place to be over the last few seasons. The first few seasons, we were finding our legs and the tone of the show, but certainly the last few seasons we’ve really jelled as a cast and relaxed and have a lot of fun on screen and off screen. They’re not often funny, but half the time we do a lot of puns between takes. We like to keep it lively and joke and chastise each other.