“Supergirl” Super Bowl Teaser Reveals Milly Alcock’s Party-Hard, Truth-Telling Kara Zor-El

While the Seattle Seahawks were bullying the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, Warner Bros. dropped a fun little teaser for director Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl, the second feature to come out of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DC Studios.

The teaser puts Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor-El front and center, wasting no time in establishing how different she is from her cousin, Superman (David Corenswet), who was recently reintroduced in James Gunn’s Superman. In that film, Kara came crashing into the Fortress of Solitude after a hard-charging weekend, wondering why her cousin had moved the door. This cameo swiftly made clear that Kara isn’t the straight arrow that her cousin is—in fact, she likes to party so much she specifically seeks out planets with red suns. Why? Because as a Kryptonian, her super-metabolism makes it nigh on impossible to catch a buzz on planets with yellow suns, like Earth.  In the Super Bowl teaser, Kara once again reaffirms what separates her from her cousin: “He sees the good in everyone,” she says, “I see the truth.”

Supergirl will track Kara’s wayward young life (she’s turning 23), and while, yes, she seems a tad self-destructive, we can also clearly see the good in her—she’s ready to go to war for a friend, in this case Ruthye (Eve Ridley), and she’d obviously die for Krypto, who we meet here as a wee pup on the very day she adopts him. 

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 press event. 

Alcock 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.

Check out the teaser below. Supergirl flies into theaters on June 26.

Featured image: Caption: Milly Alcock as SUPERGIRL in DC Studios’ and Warner Bros. Pictures’ “SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW”, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures