‘Legends Of Tomorrow’ Star Victor Garber Reveals Hopes For Next Arrowverse Crossover

Victor Garber has opened up about what he’s hoping to do in this year’s much-anticipated Arrowverse crossover between CW’s “Arrow,” “The Flash,” Supergirl” and “Legends of Tomorrow.”

In a recent interview with Digital Spy, Garber revealed that he would love to share scenes with “Supergirl” star Melissa Benoist in the next crossover. “I’m in love with Melissa, who plays Supergirl,” Garber said. “I haven’t really had much to do with her at all. But when I’ve just been in the room with her, she’s just so enchanting.”

Garber added that he would also like to get back to “The Flash” set as well as spend some time on “Arrow.” “‘The Flash’ ... that’s where I started, so I have a kind of special feeling for all those people, and I’m excited to get back on that set again,” said Garber, who made his debut appearance as Martin Stein/one half of Firestorm in Season 1, episode 12 of the Grant Gustin-led series. “‘Arrow,’ I’ve never worked on and I only know Stephen [Amell] from Comic-Con. We did a crossover together [before] but we had very little to do, but I think he’s great.”

Although Garber admitted that filming the crossover is “exhausting” and “very disruptive” to the respective schedule of the series, the Emmy-nominated actor said that he’s “excited” for this year’s crossover because the previous ones “turned out to be a lot of fun.”

Plot details about the upcoming crossover are being kept under wraps, but Arrowverse executive producer Marc Guggenheim revealed in June that they have already figured out a plan on how they could possibly top last year’s crossover.

Guggenheim told Entertainment Weekly that they are hoping to increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs in this year’s crossover to outdo last year’s “Invasion!”

“Every year we feel the pressure [to top ourselves],” Guggenheim said. “I feel like each crossover has topped the previous one. [But] topping last year’s, that’s a high bar. … What do you do that’s bigger than aliens? We’ve got some very, very exciting ideas. … Very early on in the process of doing last year’s crossover, [executive producer] Greg [Berlanti] said there’s probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the [next] crossover especially epic is if you can’t increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that’s a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.”

This year’s crossover will only be a two-night event. It will kick off on Monday, Nov. 27 at 8 p.m. EST with “Supergirl” followed by a special Monday episode of “Arrow” at 9 p.m. EST. The special programming block will continue the following day, Tuesday, Nov. 28, with “The Flash” and “Legends of Tomorrow” in their regular time slots, 8 p.m. EST and 9 p.m. EST, respectively.