Supergirl Casting Rumor?

Where are the pictures of her being blonde? What sites are reporting this?

I can totally see it!
I love the smile.

If I say "they could do worse" is sounds like i'm downplaying her and I wouldn't mean to. She's got everything she needs to play that role.

She seems quite personable on the clip on Fergueson, and I watched a glee promo she did with another actor just goofing around, and she handled that well. (I wish I could just go Hulu/Glee give her name, and have it play me 3-4 of the best scenes she was in.)

So it seems that she can be funny and charming, and that will go a long way in the show.

And let's not forget that Glee gave us Grant Gustin for Flash, and he's going pretty well over there too. I don't even know if they were on the show at the same time. If so that might make a Flash/Supergirl crossover even more fun.

Attached is an extremely rough work-in-progress.

Not seen her act, but she has a gorgeous smile. I can surely see her lighting up the screen in the old red and blues, then flash that smile as she lays low another villain ( well a man can dream )

She definitely has the wholesome beauty needed to play the part.

I found a manip here via google:
ohmy-jarley.tumblr.com/

You'll need to scroll down.

There's a Youtube channel devoted to her called Melisa Benoist Fan. It's just clips of her from Glee, though.

Wow. LFan - great find. I'm sold 100%.

If you look closely at the Hollywood Reporter page, you can see the date 12-05-14. Why would HR have that post halfway printed well over a month ago? She could have her hair dyed just for the screen test, not for filming anything else. Hate to rain on anyone's parade here, but I'm starting to get skeptical about her getting cast.

Compared to Madison Riley, Benoist has a much bigger fan follwing. There are at least to fansites devoted to her.

I wonder if the casting suits are keeping an eye on the voting that's going on here:
www.supergirl.tv

I still have to pinch myself. Were getting a Supergirl tv show!

As always, its wise to keep one's enthusiasm in check. While CBS has ordered a season of episodes, they could change their mind if the Pilot sucks or if it doesn't get good enough ratings or strong enough sponsor support. Happens all the time.

The producers hinted the other day that they were getting nervous about the Pilot timing if the show is going to air in the Fall. Apparently the casting was going too slowly. For them and for us.

I suppose they have to do the pilot and then get it approved, and then incorporate any feedback from inside the studio, and then go on. Hate to see this pushed out until Spring or whatever.

Shadar

mo wrote: I wonder if the casting suits are keeping an eye on the voting that's going on here:
www.supergirl.tv

I still have to pinch myself. Were getting a Supergirl tv show!

You maybe right Shadar:

There is an expression in special effects: You can have them Fast, You can have them Cheep, or You can have them Good. You can pick 2 out of the 4.

Television effects are normally pretty cheep-but if they give them time(say Game of Thrones or Doctor Who) they can be good., or at least decent. 22 Episodes is a lot of television to do major special effects on even if in most episodes its really 5-10 minutes. And For most of the effects you would do on a supergirl show-compositing,3d Destruction-there is only so much you can do before you shoot the live action stuff. So if they want to get a pipeline for it starting as early as possible helps a lot.

That said props, sets etc are things that take time-and for a lot of TV thats built before you start shooting. They mentioned the costume-that takes time. I do think the Man of Steel aproach, of "This cape is 100% CGI" wasn't as bad as Green Lantern, doing a more inn camera look with real sets and locations could be interesting to-and if they even manage to do real stunts all the better. What makes Green Arrow a kind of good show action wise is that it is primarily real stunts and actors-and if they can incorporate that works-but it takes time.

And Casting is very important-the show will rise and fall with its actress. This could make someones career-or it call fall after 2 episodes. Its a tricky part not just for her but for the characters around her.

So Let see what they do. I am caustiously hopeful for it.

Via Vimeo, comicbookmovies.com has posted several videos of actors autioning for the roles of James Olson, Alex Danvers and Kara Zor-El herself.

Check them out!

Spoilertv.com has even more audition videos.
I don't think Benoist has been cast in the lead yet. It's more likely that WB suits liked her audition and she may be a finalist for the lead role