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INTERVIEW | Inside SUPERGIRL: What the Cast Told Me About DC’s Next Big Movie · Brighter Path: Data, Marketing, Entertainment, and Storytelling

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  It was really exciting. It was it was kind of this
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  beautiful gift that I wasn't expecting to be given through
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  the arena of a superhero film. Because when you traditionally,
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  as he was saying, think of superhero films, you think of
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  lenses of perfection of these people, you know, all these kind
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  of happy go lucky kind of perfect people.
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  But Cara is so fundamentally flawed and traumatized.
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  And I just immediately saw myself in her and in this really
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  bizarre metal way through. I was Cara at the start of the
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  film. I was really not in AI wasn't
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  happy, you know, and I didn't I didn't believe in myself.
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  And then through playing her, I like got to become like who who
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  I really needed to be. So Cara was my Ruthie and like
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  my own personal experience, which was just like so crazy.
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  I didn't think that would happen from like a superhero film, but
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  it was just such a beautiful, beautiful gift.
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  I think that Cara sees herself in Ruthie.
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  I think that they've been dealt a very similar set of
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  devastating cards in life. And Cara is at a point where she
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  can't really save herself, but through helping save Ruthie,
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  she's she's given the opportunity to potentially do
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  that. So these these are two young
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  women who really need each other without realizing it.
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  Yeah, they do. Yeah, they do.
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  And I mean, in terms of, like, for me, developing the
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  relationship, it was just so easy.
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  Like at the chemistry read When I met you and the other girls,
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  Craig looked at me and he was like, who is it?
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  I was like, it's the first girl Latif and you just knew like
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  just instantly you would just hurt like I there was no like
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  work that needed to be done because it was just you would
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  just perfect. No thanks.
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  It's OK. I think because Ruthie's lost so
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  much, she just needs to be mature enough to be on her.
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  Own she has no one to parent. Yeah, she doesn't, and I think
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  that's why she becomes so connected to Cara, because she
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  almost looks up to her, not as a motherly figure, but as someone
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  who is. They see themselves in each
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  other. They're like lost, like, I don't
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  know, sisters, I guess, but just like two people in life that
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  just really need each other and just kind of like kinetic in
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  this beautiful way. Cara doesn't want Ruthie there,
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  but then. She says that, but she but she
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  does. But Cara is she will never ask
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  for help. That's her thing.
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  That's like what I think her biggest weakness is that she she
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  just, she just want. To do some menace.
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  I love that being on wardrobe and hair and makeup and, and,
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  and everything and all these artists because it's just, I
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  mean, it changed you like I, I, I, you can't really practice.
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  I mean, you can, you can go over some of your work, but then when
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  you put everything on and you look in the mirror and the eyes
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  are red and your teeth is transformative.
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  And then when you walk on set, just the way people look at you,
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  it's the way you move your body. Now I have all this weight, the
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  way swagger, everything comes alive.
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  And then I'm a huge fan. So then all this comes through.
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  And so all the choices that are being made are just, it's the
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  next level And your energy is you should be kind of worn out,
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  but it's just an endless amount of like energy coming through
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  because you're just, you're giving it 110%.
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  It just comes out to laugh. All that stuff just kind of
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  comes out when you put it on. I think that's the same thing.
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  Like I did a movie called Slumberland and it was the same
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  thing. I didn't know what the hell I
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  was going to do. I literally went from playing
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  Baba Vas and I had two days off and I went straight into
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  Slumberland and I had no idea what I was going to do.
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  I knew I wanted to do the movie, but I don't know how it's going
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  to come out. How the voice can tie the teeth
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  in. And he's always he had a kind of
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  wisp and it's just the way that we talk and you just kind of
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  find it and I think you you build it and I, I don't know, I
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  can't tell you. It just came out of me.
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  He wanted he's, I mean, to me, he's an anti hero and he's fully
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  does anything unapologetic on his own.
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  You know, I mean, like he's just, he goes by his own code.
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  I love that he can just punch Superman in the face and run off
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  with, you know, Wonder Woman, who knows?
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  Like the guy's just like he's, he's, he's raw and wild.
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  So I, I like that about him. I think I did when I was a kid,
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  you know, I mean, when I first saw the comics, it's like, I
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  loved him. I love Wolverine, I love the
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  crow. And those are the ones that
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  you're like, Oh, these are amazing.
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  Never did I think I was going to play this.