Supergirl Star Milly Alcock Says Starring in Game of Thrones Spinoff House of the Dragon 'Made Me Aware That Simply Existing as a Woman in That Space Is Something People Comment On'

Milly Alcock is acceptable to play Supergirl successful the adjacent large DC Universe movie, and with that comes an aggravated scrutiny from fans. But, she says, she already has acquisition moving nether the microscope of fandom: connected Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon.

Alcock played the younger mentation of Rhaenyra Targaryen successful the HBO show, and won plaudits for her performance. Off the backmost of that, she was formed arsenic Kara Zor-El successful the follow-up to James Gunn’s Superman, successful which she made a cameo. Now, Alcock is firmly rooted successful the rebooted DCU, headlining a movie of her own, and whitethorn extremity up successful consequent DCU movies specified arsenic adjacent year’s Man of Tomorrow.

And so, successful an interrogation with Vanity Fair, Alcock was asked if “the famously fickle Game of Thrones fandom” had prepared her for “the inevitable backlash.” She replied to accidental that owed to her acquisition moving connected House of the Dragon, she understands that she volition get comments astir her appearance, but it sounds similar she won't fto them fuss her.

“It decidedly made maine alert that simply existing arsenic a pistillate successful that abstraction is thing that radical remark on. We person go precise comfy having this weird ownership of women’s bodies,” she said. “I can’t truly halt them. I tin lone beryllium myself.”

According to the interview, Alcock told herself she’d ne'er bash different large franchise task aft wrapping up House of the Dragon, but she started to get anxious aft failing to enactment for a year. “I was truthful s**t-scared that my beingness was implicit astatine 22,” she said. “And, of course, it wasn’t.”

She was likewise dismissive of concerns astir the superhero genre expressed by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott. Scorsese famously said Marvel movies were "not cinema," and Ridley Scott called superhero movies “boring arsenic s**t,” with scripts that “aren’t immoderate f***king good.”

“I get it. They’ve been astir for f***ing ever making phenomenal films,” Alcock said. “Not each movie is for everyone. The quality of creation is that you tin beryllium selective.”

Alcock’s comments arrived alongside a caller Supergirl trailer, which shows a batch much of Jason Momoa’s Lobo. We besides spot David Corenswet’s Superman marque a little appearance, and find retired that Krypto the Superdog lone has 3 days to live. Supergirl hits theaters connected June 26, 2026.

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