Over the course of five-and-a-half seasons, The CW’s
Legends of Tomorrow has found more than a few weird ways to save the world but the latest is a true mic-drop.
Literally.
This Sunday’s new episode, “The Ex-Factor,” finds Zari Tarazi (played by Tala Ashe) returning to her old life in the 2040s to jump into a hit singing competition to take on a world-conquering alien. The winner of the competition? They get to rule the planet Earth.
Yeah, no pressure.
But, it wasn’t the world-saving stakes that got to Ashe, she tells SYFY WIRE in an exclusive interview. It was more the pressure of actually having to channel her inner pop-star on stage, complete with dance moves, back-up dancers, effects and a couple of should-be hit singles.
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Yuri Kochiyama speaks at an anti-war demonstration in New York City s Central Park around 1968. Courtesy of the Kochiyama family/UCLA Asian American Studies Center
On March 5, 1965, LIFE Magazine published an article on the assassination of Malcolm X. The article was accompanied by a photo of Malcolm X lying on the floor his white button-down shirt ripped open and stained red with blood moments after the fatal shots were fired. In the photo is a woman kneeling on the ground, her hands holding up Malcolm s head, appearing to give him comfort in his dying moments. There is no mention of who the bespectacled woman is or her relation to Malcolm X in the article, but that woman remembered that tragic moment vividly. Her name is Yuri Kochiyama.
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