That was announced on Friday The Young and the Restless star Sasha Calle has been cast as Supergirl in the near future The flash film by director Andy Muschietti. The announcement came in the form of a video of the phone call in which Muschietti told Calle she had gotten the part in which Muschietti asked Calle if she could fly. Melissa Benoist, who currently plays Supergirl in The CW’s Arrowverse, soon welcomed Calle to the DC Universe in a fun post on Instagram Story, noting that “the world needs as many Supergirls as it gets.” Now Calle responds to Benoist’s welcome.
In her response, Calle expressed how much Benoist’s welcome means to her as she and her brother watched every episode of Super girl
Calle is the latest actress to play the iconic superhero and will be the first Latina to take the role. Muschietti told Deadline that he auditioned more than 400 actresses for the role before finally finding Calle, who he said was “destined” for the role.
“I’ve seen more than four hundred auditions,” said Muschietti. “The talent pool was really great and it was very difficult to make a decision, but we finally found an actress who was destined to play this role.”
Production of the film is reportedly scheduled for April. Barbara Muschietti, a producer on the film and the director’s sister, recently shared a post on Instagram teasing the sets for the film being built on one of the soundstages at Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden, writing, “The fun is in the inside. “
The flash film will star Ezra Miller as Barry Allen and will also see performances from both Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck, with each actor playing their respective versions of Batman with Muschietti previously told Vanity Fair that Affleck’s character is the “baseline” before getting into the bigger story.
“He’s the baseline. He’s part of that unaltered state before we jump into Barry’s adventure. There’s a familiarity there,” Muschietti said. “This movie is a bit of a hinge in the sense that it presents a story that implies a unified universe where all the cinematic iterations we’ve seen before are valid. It’s inclusive in the sense that it says everything you’ve seen exists, and everything you will see exists in the same unified multiverse. “
The flash opens in theaters on November 4, 2022.
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