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Supergirl star Milly Alcock has triggered adult men with her opinion of playing the iconic superhero. Similarly, water is wet.
Earlier this week, the first official trailer for the Craig Gillespie-directed Supergirl, hitting theaters in June, was released by DC Studios. The film will be the second official entry in the DCU following James Gunn’s Superman.
In a Vanity Fair profile interview timed to the release of the trailer, the 25-year-old Australian actress said her time on the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon prepared her for a particular kind of attention, especially as it relates to her body.
“It definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on,” Alcock said. “We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women’s bodies. I can’t really stop them. I can only be myself.”
Supergirl star Milly Alcock triggered swaths of adult men with her opinion on being a woman leading an major IP project
These comments immediately enraged a certain subsection of fans who actively look for things to be angry about, thus proving her point.
These movies are so bad that they have to start attacking the fans before the movie even comes out. https://t.co/IklDjKSEmB
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) March 31, 2026
How to kill your movie in the crib. https://t.co/SZTXZSk1Yy
— Nerdrotic (@Nerdrotics) March 31, 2026
“Whoever is in charge of PR for DC needs to get it through their heads that this might be messaging gold in Southern California, but this is the worst way to market your movie for most of the English speaking world,” read one response.
“They usually start attacking men when it’s flopping. The [box office] tracking must be so s—– that they preemptively started attacking men out of nowhere,” a second suggested.
Alcock’s comments, of course, are based on evidence as there is an undeniable history of vitriolic discourse surrounding female leads in major IP franchises, with Daisy Ridley’s Rey and Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel coming to mind.
the fragile manbabies are already having a meltdown simply because millie said this, as if the reason millie said this wasn’t because fragile manbabies always have a meltdown when women exist in fandom spaces https://t.co/QEbDiOC2Dl pic.twitter.com/a7pwd4n3lo
— ᗩᑎᗩᗷEᒪᒪE 🔆 (@anabelle_dawn) April 1, 2026
She was vindicated from the jump https://t.co/9u08ldFPxN pic.twitter.com/WP095uH3e8
— Crazydiamond.exe (TRUTH) (@poisonedmnd) April 1, 2026
In addition to Alcock, Supergirl — hitting movie theaters on Friday, June 26, about a year after the release of Superman — also stars Jason Momoa as Lobo, Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, and Emily Beecham.