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The Flash director Andy Muschietti watched all the auditions and was “blown away by the actress’ toughness and vulnerability that she brought to the role.”
“I saw more than four hundred auditions. The talent pool was truly amazing and it was very hard to make a decision, but we finally found an actress who was destined to play this role,” said Muschietti, who is responsible for casting the Losers Club in
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He recorded and shared online him telling Calle that she got the role.
This will mark the second time the character of Supergirl will be in a live-action film. The first was in the 1984 film with Helen Slater playing the titular character, to very mixed to poor reviews. For the past few years,