On Friday, it was announced that Young and restless star Sasha Calle has been cast as Supergirl in the future flash film by director Andy Muschietti. The announcement came in the form of a video from the call, in which Muschietti told Calle that he got the role, and Muschietti asked Calle if he could fly. Melissa Benoist, who currently plays the role of Supergirl in The CW’s Arrowverse, soon met Calle in the DC Universe in a pleasant post on Instagram Story, mentioning that “the world needs as many Supergirls as possible”. Now Calle responds to Benoist’s greeting.
In her response, Calle expressed how much it meant to receive Benoist for her, while she and her brother watched each episode. Super Girl.
Calle is the latest actress to play the iconic superhero and will be the first Latin to take on the role. Muschietti said Deadline that he heard over 400 actresses for the role before finally finding Calle, whom he said was “destined” for the role.
“I saw over four hundred auditions,” Muschietti said. “The pool of talent was really amazing and it was very difficult to make a decision, but in the end we found an actress who was destined to play this role.”
It seems that the production of the film will start in April. Barbara Muschietti, the film’s producer, as well as the director’s sister, recently posted an Instagram post teasing the sets for the film built on one of the soundtracks at Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden, writing, “The fun is inside. “
flash the film will star Ezra Miller as Barry Allen and will also see the appearances of both Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck, each actor playing those versions of Batman, with Muschietti previously saying Vanity Fair that Affleck’s character is the “baseline” before he enters the larger story.
“He’s the baseline. He’s part of that unaltered state before he throws us into Barry’s adventure. There’s a familiarity there,” Muschietti said. “This film is somewhat of a hinge in the sense that it presents a story that involves a unified universe in which all the cinematic iterations we’ve seen before are valid. It is also in the sense that it says everything you have seen exists and everything you will see exists, in the same unified multiverse. “
flash will be opened in cinemas on November 4, 2022.
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