According to Gulf Today, Milly Alcock has opened up about the unexpected path that led to her landing the role of Supergirl in the upcoming DC film — and the story behind her casting is as unconventional as it is compelling.
Why This Casting Has the Fancasting World Buzzing
Alcock's rise has been meteoric. After turning heads as young Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon, she's become one of the most-discussed young actors in Hollywood — and her jump to the DC Universe feels like a genuine star-making moment. But here's the thing: Supergirl isn't a one-woman show. The movie still has a full roster of roles to fill — potential love interests, villains, mentors, and supporting heroes — and that means the fancasting conversation is just getting started. Who's her antagonist? Who grounds her story on Earth? Those are the questions myCast users should be asking right now.
Unconventional casting choices like this one are also a reminder that the best picks sometimes come out of nowhere. Fans don't always see the obvious choice coming — and when it works, it works brilliantly. That's exactly the kind of energy that makes fancasting so much fun.
What myCast Fans Have Been Saying
The myCast community has actually been ahead of this curve for a while. Across several fan-built Supergirl stories on the platform, users have been debating picks for Kara Danvers and beyond — and the data tells an interesting story.
Over at Supergirl, fans cast Josephine Langford as Kara Danvers, pulling all 4 votes in that story. Langford has a quiet intensity that makes the pick understandable, though Alcock's confirmed casting now reframes the whole conversation around who fills out the rest of that world. Meanwhile, Supergirl features a more ambitious six-role story where fans have floated Natalia Dyer in the lead and — in a genuinely inspired pick — Vincent D'Onofrio as the Ultra-Humanite. D'Onofrio as a giant albino ape-brained supervillain? That's the kind of bold, slightly unhinged fancasting energy we live for. And over at , one savvy fan already had penciled in as Kara Danvers alongside in the director's chair — a pairing that, given Seligman's sharp character work on Bottoms, would have been genuinely fascinating.