SUPERGIRL Star Melissa Benoist Reveals Her New Super Suit!
Looks like Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) will be sporting a fresh new super suit and a haircut in the upcoming fifth season of Supergirl! I thought the original suit was great, but as you can see… one of the main changes is that they got rid of the skirt and this is something that Benoist was very happy about.
During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actress said:
“We’ve been talking about pants since season 1. Every time a writer from the show has come up, and it’s freezing cold in Vancouver, I’m like, ‘Guys, please can I not wear tights?'” I love [Kara’s old costume]. I haven’t changed it because it so works, and I think it is very Kara. I’ve always felt that — until recently, I’m like, ‘Something’s gotta give.'”
It’s also explained that the new suit will allow for a wider range of motion and it also is supposed to help represent that Kara is growing as a character.
"I just think it’s more adult. Part of my goal in this whole series for whenever the show ends, I just want there to be a very clear arc for this character that she evolved as a woman and found her femininity and her adulthood, just a self-discovery.”
On top of the new suit, Benoist will also get to direct the seventeenth episode of season five, which is set to air sometime in 2020. When talking about that, she went on to tell EW:
“I’ve been wanting to direct since season 3, but couldn’t last year because of scheduling conflicts, so David Harewood did it first. I just felt really drawn to it for a couple of seasons now, just because you know the show so well, and you get to know the character, and the world, and the tone of the show so well that you can’t help but envision certain scenes in a certain way. I want to play with that.”
Supergirl continues to be a great DC series and I’m looking forward to seeing how the story of Supergirl continues with Season 5!
What do you all think of the new Supergirl suit?