Meet Milly Alcock’s Messier, Mightier Kara Zor-El in Wild First “Supergirl” Trailer
The last time we saw Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor-El, she came crashing into the Fortress of Solitude during James Gunn’s Superman, looking like she’d just had herself a mighty good weekend, wondering why her cousin had moved the door. It was a charming, offbeat way to introduce Supergirl, and it set the stage for a fresh approach to how one of the mightiest superheroines out there was going to be depicted. We learn that Supergirl likes to party on planets with red suns, because, due to the Kryptonian metabolism, she and her cousin can’t catch a buzz on planets with yellow suns, like Earth. In Gunn’s new DC Universe, Supergirl gets to be just as messy as the boys often do (not her cousin, of course, who’s proudly a square).
In the first trailer for director Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl, we open on everybody’s favorite mischievous pup, Krypto, rummaging around a hotel room in dire need of a deep clean (he eventually pees on a newspaper), and there, at last, is Supergirl, still asleep in a pair of large, askew sunglasses. Once again, she seems like she’s coming off a big weekend of partying.
As the trailer eventually moves from Kara’s wayward young life (she’s turning 23), we can see the spark of good in her—she’s ready to battle for a friend, in this case Ruthye (Eve Ridley), and she’d obviously die for Krypto—but she also makes it clear what differentiates her from her cousin. “He sees the good in everyone,” she says, “I see the truth.”
The script comes from Ana Nogueria, and was inspired by Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s comic-book miniseries “Supergirl: Women of Tomorrow,” which doesn’t shy away from Kara Zor-El’s rougher edges.
“This is really an anti-hero story. She’s got a lot of demons, a lot of baggage coming into this, which is very different from where Superman is in his life,” Gillespie told a crowd in New York at a recent press event.
James Gunn, also in attendance, added an important additional note: “So many times female superheroes are so perfect. She’s not that at all. Like male superheroes have been allowed to be for a while.”
It’s a major new role for Alcock, who was sensational in HBO’s House of the Dragon, and with the sensibilities of her director, Gillespie (I, Tonya, Cruella), she looks like she had a blast making the film.
Featured image: Milly Alcock is Supergirl. Courtesy Warner Bros.
