{"id":479811,"date":"2026-03-17T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479811\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:07:09","slug":"milly-alcock-hopes-her-messy-take-on-supergirl-reaches-young-girls-more-test-screening-reactions-geektyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/479811\/","title":{"rendered":"Milly Alcock Hopes Her &#8220;Messy&#8221; Take On SUPERGIRL Reaches Young Girls + More Test Screening Reactions \u2014 GeekTyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We are just three months away from DC\u2019s next big screen adventure, <a href=\"https:\/\/geektyrant.com?tag=Supergirl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supergirl<\/a>, starring Milly Alcock in the lead role. We first met the character in Superman last summer, where she established herself as the superhero mess of a cousin to Kal-El\/Clark Kent, and owner of super dog Krypto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In her solo film, she will be joined by some new DC friends, take on a new villain, and hopefully give young fans a new, more unconventional female lead to look up to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The actress said as much in a recent interview with Beyond the Noise (via <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbookmovie.com\/supergirl\/supergirl-star-milly-alcock-teases-her-messy-take-on-kara-as-more-test-screening-reactions-land-a226839\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBM<\/a>), where she said, \u201cI think young girls should walk away from the film knowing that it\u2019s ok to be a bit bad, and messy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">So far, there has been nothing but praise for Alcock\u2019s portrayal, as well as Jason Momoa\u2019s take on Lobo, but the villain Krem of the Yellow Hills, played by Matthias Schoenaerts, has mostly fallen flat, with early screening attendees saying his motivation is unclear and he\u2019s not very scary or interesting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">You can check out a few new reviews below, that generally say more of the same, and you can watch Supergirl when it\u2019s released in theatres on June 26th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are just three months away from DC\u2019s next big screen adventure, Supergirl, starring Milly Alcock in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-479811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}