Helen Slater has recently passed the baton to new Supergirl actress Milly Alcock. The actress donned the red cape in 1984's Supergirl, which was so poorly received that it sadly did not get a sequel.
Long Island-born Slater won the part of Superman's cousin after she auditioned in a homemade Supergirl costume.
“I can’t remember what I had for breakfast yesterday but I remember that audition. I was the only one sitting there that had a costume on. It was either, ‘uh-oh, this is either an epic fail’ or ‘look how courageous I am’,” she recently told The Telegraph.
The 62-year-old said she beat a “a cabal of Eighties actresses” for the role. Most famously, she also beat both Demi Moore and Brooke Shields to play Kara Zor-El.
“We always ideally tried to have big stars surrounding an unknown,” admitted the producer Ilya Salkind, per Sci Fi Now. “Helen Slater was totally unknown at the time and when we tested her we had seen a lot of girls, including Demi Moore, who turned it down. But when we finally saw Helen she absolutely stole the show, so we decided to go with her.”
“No one ever told me why I got the part,” Slater told the Telegraph, although she believes her earnestness matches Christopher Reeve’s overgrown Boy Scout. “They really doubled down on the sweetness,” says Slater about her version of Supergirl. “Very different to what we’re about to see with Milly.”
Being plucked from obscurity to play such an iconic comic book character, came with some side effects. “I felt the weight of it because of the publicity campaign,” Slater explained, before adding “I felt the whole weight of the experience because I was from New York but I was living in London. I was by myself. There was a heaviness to it.”
Slater has remained closely tied to the franchise over the years, appearing in the TV series Smallville as Superman's biological mother and in the CW's Supergirl show as Supergirl’s adoptive mother, Eliza Danvers.
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