It was announced on Friday that The young and the restless Star Sasha Calle has been chosen as Supergirl in the next The flash film by director Andy Muschietti. The announcement came in the form of a video of the call in which Muschietti told Calle that he had gotten the role with Muschietti asking Calle if he could fly. Melissa Benoist, who currently plays Supergirl in The CW’s Arrowverse, soon welcomed Calle to the DC Universe in a sweet post on Instagram Story, noting that “the world needs as many Supergirls as it can.” Now, Calle responds to Benoist’s welcome.
In her response, Calle expressed the meaning of Benoist’s welcome to her, as she and her brother have watched each episode. Supergirl.
Calle is the last actress to play the iconic superhero and will be the first Latina to take on the role. Muschietti said Limit date who auditioned for more than 400 actresses for the role before finally finding Calle, who said she was “destined” for the role.
“I saw over four hundred auditions,” Muschietti said. “The talent group was really amazing and it was very difficult to make a decision, but we finally found an actress who was destined to play that role.”
Production of the film is expected to begin in April. Barbara Muschietti, the film’s producer and the director’s sister, recently shared an Instagram post mocking the set of the film built on one of the soundtracks of Leavesden’s Warner Bros. studios, writing “Fun is in the interior “. “
The flash The film will star Ezra Miller as Barry Allen and will also see appearances by Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck with each actor playing their respective versions of Batman, with Muschietti previously explaining Vanity Fair that Affleck’s character is the “baseline” before he gets into the bigger story.
“He’s the baseline. He’s part of that unaltered state before he jumps into Barry’s adventure. There’s a familiarity there,” Muschietti said. “This film is a bit hinge in the sense that it presents a story that involves a unified universe where all the cinematic iterations we’ve seen before are valid. It’s inclusive in the sense that it says everything you’ve seen exists and everything which you will see exists in the same unified multiverse. “
The flash is scheduled to open in theaters on November 4, 2022.
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