Milly Alcock on Inevitable ‘Supergirl’ Backlash: “I Can’t Really Stop Them”

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Milly Alcock, who is leading the upcoming Supergirl film, is opening up about how she prepares herself for backlash.

As someone who previously starred on HBO’s House of the Dragon, she has some experience with an intense fandom. And that’s only helped her prepare for the inevitable backlash she’ll face as a woman leading a superhero blockbuster.

“It definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on,” Alcock recently told Vanity Fair of what she learned from working on the Game of Thrones prequel series. “We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women’s bodies. I can’t really stop them. I can only be myself.”

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