According to The Independent, Milly Alcock has shared the story behind how she found out she landed the role of Supergirl in the upcoming DC film — and apparently the discovery came in a pretty unconventional way. The details make for a fun behind-the-scenes moment for what is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated DC projects in years.
Why This Casting Has the Fan Community Buzzing
Supergirl has long been one of DC's most beloved characters, and with James Gunn's rebooted DC Universe now taking shape, the stakes for getting this casting right feel enormous. Alcock is best known to genre fans for her breakout performance as young Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon, where she demonstrated exactly the kind of layered vulnerability and steely resolve that Kara Zor-El demands. But as with any major superhero casting, the question fans immediately ask is: did the studio land on who we wanted?
Beyond the title role itself, this confirmation also throws the broader DC Universe casting conversation wide open. Who plays the villains? Who fills out the supporting cast? With a fresh slate comes a wave of open roles, and that's exactly where the fancasting community lives.
What myCast Fans Were Saying Before the Announcement
The myCast community had already been wrestling with this question across multiple fan-cast stories, and the results are genuinely fascinating to compare against the official choice.
Over at the Supergirl story, fans cast Josephine Langford as Kara Danvers with 4 votes — making her the community's consensus pick in that thread. A separate Supergirl story saw Natalia Dyer earn a vote for the title role alongside some interesting picks for the wider cast, including Vincent D'Onofrio as Ultra-Humanite — a choice that shows fans are already thinking about the villain roster. And in a bit of genuinely prescient fancasting, one fan in the third Supergirl story had already put forward for Kara Danvers, so at least one person in the community called it.