Legends of Tomorrow boss on Young Obama storyline: "This is totallygratuitous, us sending a little ‘love letter’ to the ex-president"

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Showrunner Phil Klemmer says of Tuesday's episode, in which a giant evil gorilla tried to kill a young Barack Obama: “There’s a certain point where you realize, ‘This scene doesn’t need to be in the show. This is totally gratuitous, us sending a little ‘love letter’ to the ex-president.' But when I rewatched the episode (Tuesday) night, I was like, ‘Thank God we did keep in that totally superfluous love letter to the ex-president. And thank God we found a performer in Vancouver (Lovell Adams-Gray) who played such a convincing Young Barack Obama!”