“The Young and the Restless” star Sasha Calle will play Supergirl within the upcoming “The Flash” film from DC and Warner Bros. Calle has the excellence of being the primary Latina Supergirl for DC.
Director Andy Muschetti introduced the information with a video on Instagram wherein he tells a shocked Calle, “You’re Supergirl.” He captioned the put up, “Been doing a lot of flashbacks lately but today is about a Flash forward.”
“The Flash” will introduce common audiences to the concept of the multiverse: one of many of core ideas underpinning DC Comics. For the non-fanboy set, the multiverse refers to a shifting variety of alternate universes that coexist inside the bigger actuality depicted in DC comics. Originally created to clarify varied contradictory modifications the corporate’s characters skilled over a long time, it permits a number of completely different variations of the identical characters to concurrently exist and, often, work together.
DC has been planting the seeds of the multiverse for the final a number of years. The idea was launched in The CW’s “Arrowverse” franchise, with “Supergirl” and “Black Lightning” expressly established as being in separate universes from “Arrow,” “The Flash” and “Legends of Tomorrow.” But most lately, throughout The CW’s crossover occasion “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” films reminiscent of “Wonder Woman” and “Justice League” have been confirmed as a part of the Arrowverse multiverse when Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen encountered Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen.
While it’s nonetheless not recognized how the multiverse idea will play out in different future DC Comics films, it actually expands the obtainable choices for Warner Bros. — simply in case it desires to discover a solution to pit Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker in opposition to, say, the present model of Aquaman.
Helen Slater first performed Supergirl within the 1984 Warner Bros. film. Supergirl, aka Kara Danvers, has already change into an enormous identify in DC’s ongoing TV Arrowverse, with Melissa Benoist taking part in the Kryptonian heroine since 2016. Benoist is presently filming her sixth and last season of the hit CW present.
Calle joins a solid that features two legendary Batmen. Not solely will Ben Affleck’s Caped Crusader return, however Michael Keaton is about to reprise his Batman from the 1989 Tim Burton movie, as TheWrap first completely reported.
Calle broke out within the function of Lola Rosales on “The Young and the Restless” and was nominated final yr within the Outstanding Young Performer in a Drama Series class on the Daytime Emmys.
Sahsa Calle is repped by Stewart Talent, Authentic Talent & Literary Management and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano.
