Friday it was announced that The young and the restless star Sasha Calle has been hailed as Supergirl in the coming year The flash movie by director Andy Muschietti. The announcement comes in the form of a video of the call in which Muschietti told Calle that she got the role with Muschietti asking Calle if she is not allowed to fly. Melissa Benoist, who currently plays Supergirl in The CW’s Arrowverse, soon welcomed Calle into the DC universe in a sweet message on Instagram Story, saying that ‘the world needs as many Supergirls as it can get’. Now Calle is responding to Benoist’s welcome.
In her response, Calle expressed how much Benoist’s welcome means to her as she and her brother watch each episode of Super girl.
Calle is the latest actress to play the iconic superhero and will be the first Latina to take on the role. Muschietti tells Deadline that he laid off more than 400 actresses for the role before finally finding Calle, who he said was ‘destined’ for the role.
“I’d seen more than four hundred auditions,” Muschietti said. “The talent pool was truly incredible 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 will reportedly begin in April. Barbara Muschietti, a producer of the film and also the sister of the director, recently shared a post on Instagram that teased and wrote the setting for the film, which is based on one of the audio stories at Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden : “The fun is in the inside.”
The flash Ezra Miller plays the role of Barry Allen and will also see the performances of Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck. Each actor plays their respective versions of Batman with Muschietti telling before. Vanity Fair that Affleck’s character is the “baseline” before moving on to the larger story.
“He’s the baseline. He’s part of the unchanged state before we jump into Barry’s adventure. There’s a celebrity there,” Muschietti said. ‘This film is a bit of a hinge in the sense that it presents a story that implies a unified universe where all the film iterations we’ve seen before are valid. It is inclusive in the sense that it says everything you have seen exists, and everything you will see exists in the same unified multiverse. “
The flash will open in theaters on November 4, 2022.
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